Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
Margaret “Margie” Meyers, a longtime parishioner of St. Peter parish in Westernport and a force in Catholic faith formation and pastoral planning in Western Maryland, died March 10 at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., following a brief illness with a neuromuscular disorder. She was 65.
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El futuro incierto de la política de inmigración ha suscitado preocupación en las parroquias con grandes poblaciones de inmigrantes, tanto indocumentados como con documentos.
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Filed Under: Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News
Parishes and Catholic agencies such as Catholic Charities hope to embody the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan by providing care for those in the immigrant community.
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Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
The Supreme Court will not hear a pair of cases that may have allowed sidewalk counselors and protesters at abortion clinics to get as close as 8 feet away from people entering them.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Young Adult Ministry
Young adult dating (sometimes still referred to as courtship) is an ongoing concern for the church. At a panel discussion during last summer’s National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, participants complained that the dating pool of committed Catholics is too small.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice
The Towson University graduate, 62, found his calling when he established the St. Paul Grassroots and Cold Weather Shelter ministries.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come
The parish, once dubbed the “Polka Capital of Maryland,” used to host as many as 40 polka parties a year and was one of a handful of parishes in the region to offer polka dance classes.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon whether to hear a pair of First Amendment cases seeking to strike down so-called “bubble zones” for pro-life demonstrators outside abortion clinics.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
Deacon Victor Petrosino, who brought imaginative lessons and communications skills he learned as a public school educator to his diaconal ministry at St. Margaret in Bel-Air, died Nov. 5. He was 84.
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Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Saints
Jessica Navin, spiritual formation coordinator for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), did not have a sainthood-cause documentary in mind when she began work as executive producer on what would become “Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story.”
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Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews
The insensate botch of “Megalopolis” (Lionsgate) is structured like a fable, pitting the self-doubt and moral descent of a tortured modern-day architect against the debauchery of ancient Rome.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
Deacon Robert “Bob” Lehr, the first member of St. Ignatius parish in Hickory to become a permanent deacon and a key figure in the building of a new church in 2001, died Aug. 11 following a fall at his home in Forest Hill. He was 79.
