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Sarah Torbeck

Sarah Torbeck is a monthly contributor for Catholic Mom, and a freelance writer for the Catholic Review and several online Catholic publications. She taught writing in Maryland for several years, and served as the RCIA Director for St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. She resides in the Tidewater region of Virginia.

Profiles in Excellence: Four Catholic school graduates who excelled in academics, athletics and service

July 3, 2024
By Sarah Torbeck
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

Many stellar students who excelled in academics, sports, community service and more were among the graduating seniors from Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The Catholic review highlights a few of them.

Missionary zeal dwells in the heart of Deacon Suarez

June 20, 2024
By Sarah Torbeck
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2024, News, Vocations

The idea of an itinerant preacher, traveling through the mountains on horseback to deliver the Good News of the Gospel, may seem like a cinematic ideal; but for Deacon Lenin Andres Suarez, it was the way he spent most of his seminary holidays in the Andes Mountains of Colombia.

Deacon Michael Misulia: ‘Everything I’ve been looking for’

June 19, 2024
By Sarah Torbeck
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2024, News, Vocations

Deacon Misulia’s family subculture fostered a strong sense of spirituality as well. He remembers attending daily Mass during summer vacation and sharing a holy hour with his parents and four brothers at the adoration chapel in his home parish of St. Peter the Apostle in Libertytown.

Deacon Acuña discovers renewed faith in the example of St. Dominic Savio

June 16, 2024
By Sarah Torbeck
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2024, News, Vocations

During his diaconate year at Sacred Heart in Glyndon, Deacon Acuña has been blessed to assist his community sacramentally by performing house blessings, baptisms and other pastoral duties that are often delegated to deacons; but he admits that this has made him even more eager to receive the apostolic authority of the Church, so that he can fully serve his parish community in his vocation as Priest.

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