Hundreds of elementary and secondary educators in the Archdiocese of Baltimore began receiving the COVID-19 vaccine the week of Jan. 18, when Maryland entered the rollout’s Phase 1B.
Father Bonadio, Sulpician known for pastoral warmth, dies at 83
Sulpician Father Joseph J. Bonadio, who shared his gift for homiletics with seminarians and served his home parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Mayfield, a retirement community and a college with great warmth, died Jan. 20 from complications of COVID-19.
High school athletic directors calm coaches, players, parents through pandemic layoffs
While teachers lead instruction for students in classrooms and at home, interscholastic sports do not translate to Zoom. Coaches and athletes pine over lost seasons; Loovis, Strickland and their peers at 16 other Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore guide them with their attitude and patience.
‘Village’ lifts Columbia Pregnancy Center
The coronavirus pandemic should have played havoc with the Columbia Pregnancy Center, but its benefactors had other ideas.
What’s your favorite Christmas film?
Paul McMullen shares some of the Catholic Review’s all-time favorite Christmas movies.
We’ll meet again
Paul McMullen ponders those who have gone before us, holding on to hope for eternal life.
Baltimore Archdiocese adds Christmas Eve Masses at noon; faithful encouraged to plan worship now
This year, one unlike any other in recent memory, it will also mean Christmas Mass starting as early as noon Dec. 24, an accommodation by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and acknowledgement of the limitations on gatherings made necessary by COVID-19.
St. Vincent de Paul Parish, archdiocese mourn death of Father Lawrence
Father Richard T. Lawrence, who over more than four decades as pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Baltimore’s Jonestown added to its distinctive history, and made it a haven both for those experiencing homelessness and the kindred faithful who serve them, died Thanksgiving Day, at age 77.
Baltimore Archdiocese parishes, agencies adjust outreach to realities of COVID-19
Parishes and satellite agencies are adjusting how they serve those in need while COVID-19 cases surge throughout the region and much of the nation.
COVID-19 officially ends fall sports in Baltimore archdiocesan high schools
While the traditional Thanksgiving Day football game between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield was the highest-profile prep event affected by the coronavirus pandemic, few teams were as hit hard by the formal cancellation of fall athletics as the soccer team from Mount St. Joseph High School.
Redemptorist Father Joseph Krastel, served as professor, preached overseas, dies at 81
Father Joseph F. Krastel, whose ministry as a Redemptorist priest took him to academia, the Carribean, Eastern Europe, South America and back to his roots in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Nov. 22, eight days prior to his 82nd birthday.
Archbishop Lori remembers COVID-19 dead on solemnity of Christ the King
Archbishop William E. Lori took the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, to remember those who have died from COVID-19, which includes nearly 260,000 in the United States, and several thousand in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.