Lenten silence amid turmoil March 3, 2020By Effie Caldarola Filed Under: Commentary, For the Journey, Guest Commentary, Lent In the midst of trial and worry, we seek the intimacy of this powerful and mysterious force we call God. Let Lent open us to grace, to see the big picture, even if it’s impossible to imagine 15 Milky Ways.
Archdiocese to suspend sign of peace, consecrated wine at Masses as coronavirus precautions March 3, 2020By Tim Swift Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News The Archdiocese of Baltimore is taking several steps this week to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus as more cases are reported in the United States.
Honors for Monsignor Phillips, now Scout chaplain emeritus March 3, 2020By Karen Sampson Hoffman Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Scouting Scouting and faith were celebrated at the annual Archdiocesan Scout Mass and Presentation of Awards March 1. Boy Scouts from troops across the archdiocese were invited to St. Katharine Drexel Church to receive religious awards earned in the past year.
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.
