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Paul McMullen

Paul McMullen, a resident of Austin, Texas, served as the managing editor of the Catholic Review from 2008 until his retirement in September 2021.

The author of two books, Paul has been involved in local media since age 12, when he began delivering The News American to 80 homes in his neighborhood. He began his journalism career with the Capital-Gazette Newspapers in Anne Arundel County, and spent more than 25 years as a sports writer for The Sun in Baltimore. His favorite writing assignments have included the Summer Olympics in Australia and Greece, the Archdiocese of Baltimore's response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and “Feet for Francis,” a 2015 walking pilgrimage from the Baltimore Basilica to Philadelphia to see Pope Francis.

Emmitsburg parish work – and spiritual – home for 40 years

March 13, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

St. Joseph Church in Emmitsburg wasn’t just Dennis Ebaugh’s employer of 40 years. It also became his faith home.

Multiple efforts needed to get people off the street and under cover

March 9, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Works of Mercy

Catholic agencies and parishes are working to get people off the streets and into homes.

Path to Catholic faith winds from India through Western Maryland to Cockeysville

March 2, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News

Manivannan was among 121 catechumens and 234 candidates participating in the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion at the cathedral, where Archbishop William E. Lori presided. They represented more than half of the total who will be fully initiated or come into full communion with the church at the Easter Vigil,

One last time, Baldwin lifts St. Frances Academy to BCL title, 81-65, over Mount St. Joe 

March 1, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Sports

It was the Panthers’ third straight title and 10th overall, as another rough-and-tumble renewal of the area’s best rivalry brought the largest crowd of the winter to Loyola University Maryland’s Reitz Arena. 

Mom with her hands happily full among Mother Lange honorees

February 18, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate

The 23rd annual Mother Mary Lange, O.S.P., awards banquet was held at Martin’s West Feb. 14. Sponsored by the Office of Black Catholic Ministries in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the event is a local staple of Black History Month.

Parishes, medical teams and individuals keep giving to Haiti

February 11, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Works of Mercy

The patience of Job is required of the poor of Haiti – and those attempting to alleviate their suffering.

They both passed the test

February 10, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, It's about love, Local News, News, Schools

Meet John and Melissa D’Adamo, the first couple we profile in our new “It’s about love” series.

Monsignor Aiken, who oversaw transformation of Glyndon parish, dies at 75

February 7, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries

Monsignor Lloyd E. Aiken, who spent most of his priesthood at Sacred Heart in Glyndon, the parish of his youth, died at Stella Maris Hospice Feb. 5, a year to the day after informing the people he served that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

Catholic high schools continue to be more affordable than most private schools

February 3, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

The 19 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore continue to be more affordable than all but a handful of their private peers, as evidenced by the Catholic Review’s annual survey of cost of attendance among other nonpublic high schools in the archdiocese.

Missing Coach Wootten, brothers Corrigan and others, but warmed by new life

January 31, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

An unusually mild January nonetheless left me chilled, by too many deaths.

Father Holthaus, who served eight Baltimore Archdiocese parishes, dies at 76

January 31, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries

Father Paul Holthaus, a native of South Baltimore who served eight parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore during his nearly five decades as a priest, died Jan. 26.

Do you know the date of your baptism?

January 17, 2020
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog

I experienced my first sacrament April 10, 1955, at St. Rose of Lima in Brooklyn. Father T. Austin Murphy did the honors, seven years before he became an auxiliary bishop for the diocese.

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