Please don’t fine my homeless neighbors March 31, 2017By Robyn Barberry Filed Under: Blog, Unconditional I live in a small city outside of Baltimore called Aberdeen. It’s a modest town, born of the canning industry and railroad, where most people work hard to live peaceful lives in little neighborhoods. Unfortunately, just under two hundred of our neighbors are unable to afford homes for a variety
Men’s conference participants told to be on fire, not ‘lukewarm’ March 30, 2017By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Faith Formation, Local News, Men, News At least 1,000 men from across the Baltimore Archdiocese converged on Morgan State University for the annual Catholic men’s conference.
Never too old for bedtime kiss March 30, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window This Lenten season, as we fast and serve and pray, I hope we can try to find moments just to be with God.
Seeing as God sees March 29, 2017By Father J. Collin Poston Filed Under: Blog, Dust and Dewfall Last Sunday, the “midway point” of Lent, we heard the beautiful, amazing account from the Gospel of John of the “man born blind” (John 9:1-41.) In it we see a beautiful progression of faith, not so much unlike the one of the Samaritan woman who earlier proclaimed Christ to her
Cardinal Keeler remembered: ‘There goes a prince’ March 28, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Father Michael White remembered Cardinal Keeler as a “tornado” of nonstop work who considered it the “highest form of asceticism” to never waste a moment.
Cardinal Keeler entombed in basilica undercroft March 28, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Local News, News, Obituaries “There’s no more appropriate place for the cardinal to be buried than this place he truly, truly loved with all his heart,” said Father Gilbert Seitz.
What we found when we went birthday gift shopping March 28, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window If ever there were an aunt who deserves to be celebrated, it’s Aunt Shai. She gives her nieces and nephews her undivided attention, plays with them for hours, reads to them, and teaches them how to make up stories with their toys.So even though it wasn’t clear that she wanted
Former Baltimore mayor remembers Cardinal Keeler as ‘special human being’ March 27, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate Schmoke said the key to Cardinal Keeler’s effectiveness as a leader was his ability to listen.
Cardinal Keeler’s body received at Baltimore Basilica March 27, 2017By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Ten pallbearers carried the casket up the steps of the U.S.’s first cathedral, which Cardinal Keeler had restored to the vision of its architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe
‘Light of hope’: Cardinal Keeler, basilica restorer, interfaith leader, dies at 86 March 23, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Local News, News, Obituaries Cardinal William H. Keeler, 14th archbishop of Baltimore and international leader in Catholic-Jewish relations, died March 23.
A warm welcome at Mass March 19, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window I’ve never paid much attention to what greeters do before Mass. I always smile at them and say hello, maybe compliment a scarf or comment on the weather. Still, I hadn’t really considered it a significant job.At our parish’s Scout Mass this week, though, Daniel was a greeter, and he
Question Corner: Substituting penitential practice?/Creating fake identity March 16, 2017By Father Kenneth Doyle Filed Under: Commentary, News, Question Corner Father Doyle fields questions about penitential practice and creating a false identity.
