Practice of tracking Massgoers for political purposes gains scrutiny March 2, 2020By Dennis Sadowski Filed Under: News, World News Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, a political action group with no ties to the Catholic Church, has written repeatedly about how his organization has used “the latest technology to find Catholics, connect with them, register them to vote and then get them to the polls.”
Path to Catholic faith winds from India through Western Maryland to Cockeysville March 2, 2020By 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,
Father Ernesto Cardenal, poet and revolutionary, dies in Nicaragua March 2, 2020By David Agren Filed Under: News, Obituaries, World News Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. He was 95.
Social Ministry Convocation honors those working to strengthen community March 2, 2020By Mary K. Tilghman Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate The 41st annual Social Ministry Convocation was held Feb. 29 at Mercy High School in Baltimore.
Citing cold, pope skips Lenten retreat with Curia March 2, 2020By Junno Arocho Esteves Filed Under: News, Vatican, Video, World News Continuing his recovery from a mild cold, Pope Francis said that he would be unable to attend his annual Lenten retreat with Roman Curia officials.
One last time, Baldwin lifts St. Frances Academy to BCL title, 81-65, over Mount St. Joe March 1, 2020By 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.
Praying by name for Baltimore’s victims of violence March 1, 2020By Archdiocese of Baltimore Filed Under: Uncategorized In memory of those who have lost their lives to violence in Baltimore City, may God grant them peace and bring healing to their loved ones and to the City of Baltimore.
Professor: St. John Henry Newman saw church, university as ‘inseparable’ March 1, 2020By Kurt Jensen Filed Under: News, World News Long after his death, now-St. John Henry Newman’s ideas found the world marching to them.
Beer and pretzels: the ‘official beverage and food’ of Lent February 28, 2020By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Lent, Local News, News While beer and pretzels might be most closely associated with oom-pah music, polka dancing and Oktoberfests, they have a much older and more spiritual pedigree as the “official beverage and food of Lent,” according to Father William Saunders.
A goody bag from church, charcuterie, the story of a super ball, and our Lenten prayer basket (7 Quick Takes) February 28, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Last weekend we took a day trip to Frederick, and John suggested that we stop at St. Peter’s in Libertytown, Md., for Saturday evening Mass.
Pakistani woman who fled to Canada seeks political asylum in France February 27, 2020By Simon Caldwell Filed Under: News, World News The Catholic mother, who spent nearly a decade on death row in Pakistan after she was falsely accused of blasphemy against Islam, wants to live closer to French writer Anne-Isabelle Tollet, who was influential in her fight for freedom and helped her to write her autobiography, “Enfin Libre” (Finally Free).
Faith through it all February 27, 2020By Suzanna Molino Singleton Filed Under: Blog, Snippets of Faith The differences in attitude while muddling through emotional heartache or illness are what can make or break us.
