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Yvonne Wenger

Yvonne Wenger is a former journalist with the Baltimore Sun who now serves as director of public relations for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Father Patrick Carrion offers blessing before Preakness

May 15, 2025
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Sports

Father Patrick M. Carrion offered the invocation May 15 at the “Alibi Breakfast” ahead of the May 17 running of the Preakness Stakes, following in the nearly century-long tradition set by his brother priests before him in Baltimore at Pimlico Race Course.

Celebrating diversity: Couples incorporate cultural traditions in wedding ceremonies

April 18, 2024
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News

In celebrating their wedding liturgies, many couples getting married in the Catholic Church incorporate cultural traditions that hold special meaning for their families.

Paws for prayer at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen

October 3, 2023
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints

Following an Oct. 1 Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, Father Justin Gough held a blessing of the animals in honor of the upcoming feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals.

For love of Grace: Mother of daughter lost to suicide battles online bullying

October 3, 2023
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News, Respect Life

Christine McComas has devoted herself to keeping other children safe online as a tireless advocate for legislative solutions on the state and national level and an ambassador for compassion, civility and decency on social media, inspired by Grace, whose mother described

Gwynn Oak Unity Festival a reminder of the work done to dismantle racism – and the work that’s left to do

August 28, 2023
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

In the spot where his brother priests were arrested 60 years earlier for helping to desegregate a Baltimore County amusement park, Auxiliary Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., offered a prayer to heal racial divisions Aug. 27.

Deacon Paul Kongnyuy embraces ‘priestly heart’

June 18, 2023
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2023, News, Vocations

As a priest, Deacon Kongnyuy says his primary role will be as a teacher and evangelizer who shares the word of God at every opportunity.

Setting the trajectory: Knott Scholarship Funds drive impact over a generation

May 16, 2023
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

Henry and Marion Knott, who founded the Knott Scholarship Funds more than 40 years ago as a way to empower and engage academically talented Catholic students to become leaders in service to their schools, parishes and communities.

‘Will you marry me?’: Catholic couples share proposal stories

April 12, 2023
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Worship & Sacraments

Three couples in the Archdiocese of Baltimore shared with the Catholic Review a little about their engagement story, the beliefs that shape their lives together – and some of the signs they spotted along the way.

God and country: Catholic midshipman among growing ranks of women in military service

March 14, 2023
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News

A summer camp when she was 17 awakened in Maria E. Weimer the values that would come to define her life: She is a protector, a defender and a believer – and her future would be with the U.S. Navy.

Light in the city

October 31, 2022
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen, Commentary

On this year’s All Soul’s Day, as we hold the names of Baltimore’s murder victims in our prayers and our hearts, I humbly ask: What more can we do together?

Matthew, Mark, Luke or John? Who’s your quarterback? Inventive faith-sharing ‘Bible Draft’ comes to parishes

October 27, 2022
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bible, Feature, Local News, News

The “Bible Draft,” an inventive and interactive faith-sharing experience, is catching on in parish communities in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Bishop Lewandowski offers invocation at police department’s summer awards program

July 29, 2022
By Yvonne Wenger
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

Standing before more than 100 Baltimore police officers gathered with their families, Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski called for God to protect them and grant them courage and wisdom in their actions to keep the city safe.

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