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Kevin J. Parks

Kevin J. Parks joined the Catholic Review in 2016 as its visual journalist following a lengthy career at Mercy Medical Center, where he shot photography and video for internal communications, marketing and media relations for local and national media.

Kevin has been honored by the Maryland Delaware D.C. (MDDC) Press Association, The Catholic Press Association and the Associated Church Press for his work. One of his career highlights is documenting a medical mission in Peru, which received two national awards.

A Baltimore native, Kevin is graduate of Archbishop Curley High School and the University of Baltimore. He is a parishioner of St. Francis de Sales, Abingdon.

Turtley Awesome: Immaculate Conception School students learn from Aquarium partnership

September 16, 2024
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, Local News, News, Schools

“Bubbles Cheeseball” was a baby diamondback terrapin raised by Cullen’s students as part of the National Aquarium in Baltimore’s Terrapins in the Classroom project, a three-year program through which students observe and collect data on the reptile’s weight and growth during the school year.

‘Beautiful witness that the church is alive’: Baltimore Catholics join tens of thousands in eucharistic procession

July 21, 2024
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News

More than 100 bishops and cardinals, including Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori and Baltimore Auxiliary Bishops Adam J. Parker and Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., marched in procession with thousands of other Catholics.

Young Baltimore pilgrims inspired at National Eucharistic Congress

July 20, 2024
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News

“The gift to God for me has been for me to abide in him,” said Sacay, a student at Community College of Baltimore County. “I can pay that forward by bringing other young people to abide in the Lord through adoration – and I was thinking and planning with my friends to begin adoration for young people in our local parish and really cultivate true and holy friendship where people can share their struggles and their challenges.”

Archdiocese of Baltimore Youth Bowl competitors run with bright spirit despite damp conditions

May 6, 2024
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Sports

Dozens of student athletes from area Catholic and independent elementary and middle schools participated in the 31st Youth Bowl May 4 at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore.

Catholic students make plunge to help support people with special needs

March 5, 2024
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

The students were among an estimated 500 representatives of area Catholic schools who participated in the annual Maryland State Police Cool Schools Polar Bear Plunge benefitting the Maryland Special Olympics.

Quo Vadis Baltimore showcases path to vocations, fraternity

July 19, 2023
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Fifty-one young men from across the region joined in a community of brotherhood July 10-13 at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore for a four-day overnight opportunity to allow Christ to be part of their lives through prayer, confession, adoration and talks about seminary and priestly life.

Fullerton Passion Walk a ‘deeply moving’ experience

March 30, 2023
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News

The “Passion Walk,” a series of 18 near-life-size dimensional sets depicting the final days in the life of Jesus, is not unlike what one might see at a theater production.

Catholic Review photographer enjoys 100-year-old cookie recipe

December 13, 2022
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Recipes

Using a 100-year-old recipe handed down by her maternal great grandmother, Sue Parks continues a family tradition started decades ago that makes Christmases extra special.

Long-awaited construction project kicks off at St. Joan of Arc

October 19, 2022
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

A project that’s been years in the making began to come to life Oct. 19 when Archbishop William E. Lori and other dignitaries broke ground on a $6.5 million parish life center and chapel for St. Joan of Arc Parish and School in Harford County.

Summer vocations camp helps young men discern God’s call

July 15, 2022
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Quo Vadis, an annual event organized and staffed by seminarians in their pastoral year of formation, brings together young men who share an interest in their common Catholic faith and who are interested in discerning God’s call in their lives,

Frederick students close Marian month with outdoor rosary

May 26, 2022
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Western Vicariate

Jose Feliz, a seventh grader at St. John Regional Catholic School, Frederick, held a wooden rosary given to him by his grandmother for his birthday as he and some 250 fifth- through eighth-grade students sat on the grass and prayed in the school’s Mary Garden May 23.

Bon Secours dedicates new West Baltimore community center

April 27, 2022
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

Sisters of Bon Secours were among the hundreds of people who braved a steady rain as they gathered under a tent the afternoon of April 26 to dedicate the $6.8 million Bon Secours Community Resource Center in West Baltimore.

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