Loyola Blakefield student loses battle with leukemia March 11, 2011By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Loyola Blakefield freshman Joseph T. Gorman died March 9 after two years of battling leukemia.
Paralysis won’t stop priest at Fells Point St. Patrick’s Day Mass March 10, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Growing up in New York, Redemptorist Father John Murray loved marching with his father in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Now that he uses a wheelchair, Father Murray is about to promote the Saint of Ireland in a way that may prove more powerful than anything he could have done on foot in a parade.
Family of fallen Marine split on Westboro ruling March 10, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Two members of a family whose son was killed in Iraq had different reactions to a March 2 Supreme Court decision upholding the First Amendment rights of members of the Westboro Baptist Church to protest outside the 2006 funeral of Matthew Snyder at St. John Parish in Westminster.
Calling St. Polycarp March 10, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Blog, The Narthex When Marilyn Szewczyk was about to launch a network of pro-life pregnancy centers in Maryland, she turned to St. Polycarp for help. Reasoning that the obscure early Christian martyr didn’t have many people asking for his intercession, Szewczyk figured she’d have easy access to his ear.Lynn Anne Sukeena, one of Szewczyk’s daughters, told me that […]
Cardinal Keeler celebrates 80th birthday March 3, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News “You have been and continue to be a star,” Archbishop Sambi said, “a light of hope, not only for the church, but also for the community at large.”
Cardinal Keeler and the Psychic Reader March 3, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Blog, The Narthex Cardinal William H. Keeler, master of the one-liner, meets with George P. Matysek Jr. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)During a March 2 testimonial at a special celebration of Cardinal William H. Keeler’s upcoming 80th birthday, Richard Berndt told a story that demonstrated why friends know the retired archbishop as a master of
Monsignor Strempeck, hospital chaplain and pastor, dies February 17, 2011By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Monsignor Martin R. Strempeck, a much-loved priest and former pastor who devoted much of his ministry to comforting others, died Feb. 8. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien offered a funeral Mass Feb. 14 at St. Margaret in Bel, the parish where 82-year-old MonsignorStrempeck had retired but remained active in ministry until three months before his death.
Mystery of George Washington’s missing (and recovered) letter to Catholics February 16, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Blog, The Narthex Part of a 1790 letter to Catholics written by President George Washington is shown in this photograph. The letter is housed in the archives of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. (Courtesy Archdiocese of Baltimore) In honor of President’s Day, tomorrow’s issue of The Catholic Review will feature an article on a very valuable letter housed in […]
Pep Perrella got inclusion before it had a name February 16, 2011By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog Pep Perrella is buoyed by Catholic schoolkids he feeds. Was on the phone with my daughter Kate last weekend, and told her that Pep Perella was ailing. “Do you remember Pep?” I asked. “How could I forget his chicken parmigiana?” she said, 3,000 miles and 12 years from the last time she had one of […]
Judge Garbis rules Baltimore pregnancy center sign law unconstitutional February 3, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life U.S. District Court Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled Jan. 28 in Baltimore that it is unconstitutional to require pro-life pregnancy centers to post signs with language mandated by the government.
Sargent Shriver: Cardinal Gibbons’ godson remembered January 22, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Blog, The Narthex Sargent Shriver is shown in a Life photograph. The former vice presidential candidate was the godson of Baltimore Cardinal James Gibbons. This week’s cover story in The Catholic Review spotlights a mother and daughter who are planning to jump into the icy Chesapeake Bay at the end of the month to raise money for the Special Olympics. Was […]
St. Michael, Fells Point, faces possible closure January 20, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Leaders of the Redemptorists and the Archdiocese of Baltimore are considering a plan to close 159-year-old St. Michael in Fells Point and relocate parishioners to Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown.
