Pope announces new cardinals, including U.S. Bishop McElroy May 30, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis announced he will create 21 new cardinals Aug. 27, including 68-year-old Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, California.
Sister Margaret Mary Glick dies at 93 May 29, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Margaret Mary Glick was offered May 25 at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Margaret died April 20. She was 93.
Old Bay Goldfish, treats on the grill, and thoughts on prayer (7 Quick Takes) May 28, 2022By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Here in Baltimore, we take our Old Bay seriously. We put it on many foods—pizza and scrambled eggs and tuna melts and pasta and corn on the cob. Yum.
Marian House achieves 40 years of ‘breaking the cycle of homelessness’ for women in Baltimore May 27, 2022By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice Marian House offers outreach and support services for unhoused and formerly incarcerated women and their children.
Women religious call on public to push lawmakers on gun control May 27, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Various orders of women religious said that lamenting the May 24 mass killing of 19 children and two of their teachers in Uvalde, Texas, also should accompany action so that it doesn’t happen again.
New Oklahoma law bans nearly all abortions from fertilization stage May 27, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bills May 25, saying he has kept his promise to voters to “sign every piece of pro-life legislation that came across my desk.”
Frederick students close Marian month with outdoor rosary May 26, 2022By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Western Vicariate Jose Feliz, a seventh grader at St. John Regional Catholic School, Frederick, held a wooden rosary given to him by his grandmother for his birthday as he and some 250 fifth- through eighth-grade students sat on the grass and prayed in the school’s Mary Garden May 23.
Hagerstown students bring historical figures to life in ‘wax museum’ May 26, 2022By Adam Zielonka Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools History came alive an annual fifth-grade class project at St. Mary Catholic School in Hagerstown, known as the “Wax Museum.” After several weeks of research and preparation, students dressed up as their given historical figure, stationed themselves around the school’s gym on May 24 and prepared to educate the museum’s guests.
Pope, with Ukrainian families, to lead rosary for peace May 31 May 26, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis and Ukrainian families in Rome will gather May 31 before a statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, to recite the rosary for peace in Ukraine and in other places at war.
Student who fled Ukraine feels at home at Maryland Catholic high school May 26, 2022By Mark Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Ivan Dmytriiev, 17, a Ukrainian refugee who arrived in the United States with his 6-year-old brother, Mykhailo, after a harrowing escape from his country just after Russia launched its invasion there, is attending DeMatha Catholic High School.
Close of Year of the Eucharist will be celebrated at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen May 26, 2022By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News The Archdiocese of Baltimore will conclude its Year of Eucharist with a fitting celebration on the Feast of Corpus Christi June 19 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. On the same day, the U.S. bishops will launch a three-year National Eucharistic Revival.
MOVIE REVIEW: Top Gun: Maverick May 26, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, Uncategorized Off they go into the wild blue yonder — again — in “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount), a rousing sequel to the 1986 blockbuster about one of the U.S. Navy’s elite flying squadrons and its gaggle of cocky fighter pilots.
