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George P. Matysek Jr.

Gietka might produce a prolife ad for a Super Bowl

December 9, 2004
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News

Ms. Gietka is also mulling over the idea of buying commercial time during the Super Bowl to air a prolife message into millions of homes. She does have the money required for such an ad, $76 million in lottery winnings after taxes.

Launching a dream: Maryland’s youngest hot air balloon pilot sees beauty from above

November 22, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News

Ever since Matt passed his flight test and became Maryland’s youngest hot air balloon pilot on August 24, the nascent aviator has been on cloud nine. Floating on the winds is all he’s wanted to do since he took his first ride at age 6 when his father put him in a hot air balloon at the annual Preakness celebration.

$112.8 million Mega Miracle

July 15, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News

A single woman who graduated from Holy Rosary Elementary School and who had once considered becoming a School Sister of Notre Dame while she attended high school at the Villa Regina Academy in Baltimore, Ms. Gietka said one of her top priorities now is to get to work on her musical.

Chaplain recounts horrors of Iraqi war

June 19, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

“Bullets are so terrible now,” said Father Erestain, a lieutenant commander and the only Catholic priest aboard the Comfort as it cruised the Persian Gulf throughout the war. “They come in and they rip the body right through,” he explained, slowly trailing a finger along the length of his abdomen to show the power of the weapons.

Travolta movie films scenes at St. Michael, Fells Point

May 14, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News

Disney film crews were on site at St. Michael from April 27 to May 2 filming the baptism and funeral scenes and a Christmas Midnight Mass scene.

Emmitsburg a healing place for moms in jail

May 8, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life

Phyllis Matthews found out she was pregnant only one day before she was scheduled to enter the Women’s Detention Center in Baltimore to serve time for heroin possission. Having a baby in prison was the last thing the 34-year old single mother of five wanted to endure, especially since she knew that her infant would be taken from her immediately after birth.

Reporter’s notebook: Martin Sheen says Gospel values needed now more than ever

December 15, 2002
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Filed Under: Blog, The Narthex

The congregation that packed St. Peter Claver Church for Philip Berrigan’s funeral Dec. 9 was slowly making its way onto ice-covered streets of West Baltimore when I spotted the president of the United States standing outside the 114-year-old brick building.

Philip Berrigan praised as ‘prophet of peace’ at Baltimore funeral Mass

December 14, 2002
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries

Hundreds of people marched through the troubled, poverty-stricken streets of west Baltimore Dec. 9 to celebrate the life of controversial Catholic peace activist Philip Francis Berrigan.

Catholic schools get tough on Internet plagiarism

August 13, 2002
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

These days, it takes less than five minutes to log onto the Internet and download whole papers complete with footnotes and bibliographies. Several Web sites offer such a “service” for free or a small fee, posting hundreds of papers on topics ranging from American literature to Shakespeare to world history.

Catholic school student wins national handwriting contest

June 10, 2002
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

More than a few doctors, notorious for their illegible scribble, would do well to take Michael Daniel Fairley’s advice about good handwriting.

Maryland firm stops selling body parts from abortions

February 1, 2000
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life

A decision by a Maryland company to stop procuring and distributing body parts obtained from aborted fetuses is drawing praise from pro-life supporters who had protested the practice as abhorrent and inhumane.

Emmitsburg seminary boasts record number of new students

October 8, 1999
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Vocations, Western Vicariate

While many seminaries around the country have struggled to attract students in recent years, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg is bursting at the seams.

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