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George P. Matysek Jr.

George Matysek, a member of the Catholic Review staff since 1997, is managing editor of Catholic Review Media. He oversees news coverage of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and is a host of Catholic Review Radio.

George has won more than 150 national and regional journalism and broadcasting awards from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, the Catholic Media Association, the Associated Church Press and National Right to Life. The Catholic Media Association named him both Editor of the Year and Podcaster of the Year in 2024. He has reported from Guyana, Guatemala, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

A native Baltimorean, George is a graduate of Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School in Essex. He holds a bachelor's degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore and a master's degree from UMBC. George, his wife and six children live in Rodgers Forge. He is a parishioner of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.

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.

Mutilated African war victims helped by Baltimore Catholic school

November 30, 2001
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

Friends of Sierra Leone estimates that 75,000 unarmed civilians have been killed and 20,000 mutilated during Sierra Leone’s 11-year-old civil war.

Catholic astronaut from Essex to head for space station aboard shuttle

January 18, 2001
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

“When you’re in space, and you look back at earth, it strikes you as an overwhelmingly beautiful vision,” Jones said. “It makes me think that God constructed us to appreciate this aspect of creation. He put something in our brains to appreciate the magnificence of creation.”

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.

Curley friar recalls visit with Maximilian Kolbe

January 18, 1999
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Filed Under: Local News

Not everyone gets to go bike riding with a saint. But that’s exactly what one newly ordained Franciscan priest from Baltimore did nearly 60 years ago when he visited St. Maximilian Kolbe at the Polish saint’s huge Franciscan compound outside Warsaw.

Family ties bring about housing complex for deaf seniors

September 20, 1998
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Deaf Ministry, Disabilities Ministry, Local News, News

Ground was broken this summer in Baltimore County for the nation’s first elderly housing complex dedicated exclusively to the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired seniors.

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