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Mary K. Tilghman

Mary Tilghman is a freelance contributor to the Catholic Review who previously served as managing editor, news editor and staff writer for the Review.

A parishioner of St. Ignatius in Baltimore, she and her husband have three adult children. Her first novel, “Divided Loyalties” (Black Rose Writing), a historical novel set in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam, was published in 2017.

St. Frances Academy empowers future Black pilots with Ortega Flight Academy

August 25, 2023
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Schools, Video

Autumn Marlow is the first student in the Dr. Sandy Ortega Flight Academy, a new enrichment program offered at St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore.

Longtime Cockeysville deacon dies at 86

August 7, 2023
By Mary K. Tilghman
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries

Deacon Edward Conway Sullivan Jr., who served at St. Joseph in Cockeysville for more than 20 years, is being remembered for his “generous, generous heart” and his devotion to his parish.

St. Ann has been anchored in faith for 150 years

June 15, 2023
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Parish Anniversary 2023

Anchors have defined St. Ann in northeast Baltimore for 150 years – from the anchor Captain William Kennedy brought home from his ship, The Wanderer, to the parish’s symbolic role as an anchor of the community.

Notre Dame of Maryland University partners with Mount St. Mary’s University to address nursing shortage

April 27, 2023
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News

In response to nursing shortages growing more critical every year in Maryland, the leaders of Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg have signed a partnership to enable graduates of Mount St. Mary’s to earn their nursing degrees.

More than 500 to be welcomed into full communion in 2023

February 28, 2023
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

A capacity gathering packed the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen Feb. 26 for the Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion for those who will enter the Catholic Church this Easter.

Social Ministry Convocation returns to in-person event

February 28, 2023
By Mary K. Tilghman
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice

After two years of COVID-related online-only meeting, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s annual Social Ministry Convocation returned to an in-person gathering at Mercy High School Feb. 25, with 275 attendees.

Monsignor Luca, longtime pastor of Howard County parishes, dies at 79

October 1, 2022
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries

Remembered as a dedicated shepherd to his flock, Monsignor Joseph Luca, pastor emeritus of St. Louis in Clarksville and St. Francis of Assisi in Fulton, died Oct. 1 after a long battle with cancer. He was 79.

Father Roach, noted church historian and longtime pastor, will stay active in retirement

June 30, 2022
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations

Father Michael Roach’s life could best be summed up by one of his favorite quotations, by St. Clement of Alexandria: “All life is a holy festival.”

Monsignor Cummings, former Navy chaplain and longtime pastor, ready for retirement

June 30, 2022
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations

As he prepares for retirement, Monsignor Carl Cummings said he has been gratified to help people join the Catholic faith – or return to it in the sacrament of penance.

Parishes enter ‘honest conversations’ on race

June 15, 2022
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

In churches across the Archdiocese of Baltimore, parishioners are gathering to search for ways to come to grips with how racism affects society and one another.

St. Brigid’s religious items find new homes as former property is redeveloped

April 13, 2022
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

Although St. Brigid’s church in Canton has been demolished to make way for a new townhouse development in the Canton neighborhood, the rectory remains, ready for repurpose, and religious items – from the altar to the statues – have been transferred to other churches around the archdiocese and beyond.

Inflation wallops parishes and schools in Archdiocese of Baltimore

April 6, 2022
By Mary K. Tilghman
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News

Inflation and supply issues have affected the classroom, offices and even the school buses for churches and schools throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

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