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Catholic school student wins national handwriting contest

June 10, 2002
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

More than a few doctors, notorious for their illegible scribble, would do well to take Michael Daniel Fairley’s advice about good handwriting.

Mutilated African war victims helped by Baltimore Catholic school

November 30, 2001
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

Friends of Sierra Leone estimates that 75,000 unarmed civilians have been killed and 20,000 mutilated during Sierra Leone’s 11-year-old civil war.

Catholic astronaut from Essex to head for space station aboard shuttle

January 18, 2001
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

“When you’re in space, and you look back at earth, it strikes you as an overwhelmingly beautiful vision,” Jones said. “It makes me think that God constructed us to appreciate this aspect of creation. He put something in our brains to appreciate the magnificence of creation.”

Maryland firm stops selling body parts from abortions

February 1, 2000
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life

A decision by a Maryland company to stop procuring and distributing body parts obtained from aborted fetuses is drawing praise from pro-life supporters who had protested the practice as abhorrent and inhumane.

Emmitsburg seminary boasts record number of new students

October 8, 1999
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Vocations, Western Vicariate

While many seminaries around the country have struggled to attract students in recent years, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg is bursting at the seams.

Curley friar recalls visit with Maximilian Kolbe

January 18, 1999
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Filed Under: Local News

Not everyone gets to go bike riding with a saint. But that’s exactly what one newly ordained Franciscan priest from Baltimore did nearly 60 years ago when he visited St. Maximilian Kolbe at the Polish saint’s huge Franciscan compound outside Warsaw.

Family ties bring about housing complex for deaf seniors

September 20, 1998
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Deaf Ministry, Disabilities Ministry, Local News, News

Ground was broken this summer in Baltimore County for the nation’s first elderly housing complex dedicated exclusively to the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired seniors.

Confronting fear, faith and hope: Nigerian missionaries grapple with tough Baltimore realities

July 9, 1998
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Filed Under: Local News, News

As the priest sits in his solitary rectory office at St. Peter Claver in West Baltimore, a driving spring rain beats against the iron-barred windows. The storm pelts scattered debris on the streets and sidewalks of the troubled neighborhood – flushing foam cups and bits of broken concrete into the gutter along Fremont Avenue. Not so easily washed aside, however, are the young drug dealers

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