Archbishop Lori announces clergy appointments June 15, 2020By Archdiocese of Baltimore Filed Under: Appointments, Feature, Local News, News Archbishop William E. Lori has announced the latest clergy appointments in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Maryland bishops call for action against racism June 15, 2020By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice The bishops who make up the governing board of the Maryland Catholic Conference released a statement June 15 that recalls “our own Church’s past sins and failings and admit to them freely.”
Counselors find new ways to connect June 14, 2020By Mary K. Tilghman Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News Zoom sessions have become the norm, along with email blasts, virtual office hours and old-fashioned phone calls.
Baltimore parishioners overjoyed as they keep a pastor and gain a bishop June 13, 2020By Tim Swift Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News Come August, he’ll have gained the title “His Excellency,” but for the parishioners of Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highalndtown and its mission church of St. Patrick in Fells Point, he’ll remain and always be “Padre Bruce.”
In challenging time, priests lean on their own loss as they bury the dead June 12, 2020By Paul McMullen Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Works of Mercy Sensitive pastoral care from priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, coupled with the support of funeral homes and cemeteries, has comforted many families during the coronavirus pandemic
Adapting to coronavirus pandemic as teacher, wife, mom June 12, 2020By Brooke Mosca Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools Andrea Sommers will never forget her 10th year as a teacher at St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick. She teaches social studies, English language arts and religion to 82 fifthand sixth-graders. Since mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic has forced her to do all that from home, which she shares with her husband, Dwight, a captain […]
Newly named St. Louis archbishop shares mom’s advice to him: ‘Don’t get a big head’ June 11, 2020By Rebecca Drake Catholic News Service Filed Under: Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, Feature, Local News, News, World News Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski traveled from Springfield to the St. Louis Archdiocese as its newly named archbishop with this advice from his mother, Jean: “Don’t get a big head.”
Center for Pregnancy Concerns’ Howard St. location expected to open on schedule June 11, 2020By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life The pro-life Center for Pregnancy Concerns (CPC) will open as planned at 328 N. Howard St. in Baltimore, next door to the city’s Planned Parenthood location, late this summer, according to Gina Ruppert, executive director of CPC.
Highlandtown pastor urges more COVID-19 testing sites in hard-hit Latino and African American communities June 10, 2020By Tim Swift Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Coronavirus, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News Bishop-designate Bruce Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., appealed to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Jr. June 10 to increase free COVID-19 testing in Baltimore to expand beyond his parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown.
Pope names Bishop Rozanski, Baltimore native, as Archbishop of St. Louis June 10, 2020By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, Feature, Local News, News Pope Francis has named Baltimore native Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., as the 10th archbishop of St. Louis.
New Baltimore auxiliary bishop wanted to be a ‘frontier priest’ June 10, 2020By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Archbishop's Ministry, Bishop Lewandowski, Bishops, Eastern Vicariate, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News, Uncategorized Redemptorist Father Bruce Lewandowski was surprised June 1 by a call from Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio – the pope’s representative in the United States – relating that Pope Francis had selected the pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Parish in Highlandtown as the archdiocese’s new auxiliary bishop. The appointment was announced June 10. “I’m very humbled and I never saw this coming,” he said in an interview.
Pope names Highlandtown Redemptorist as new auxiliary bishop for Baltimore June 10, 2020By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Archbishop's Ministry, Bishop Lewandowski, Bishops, Eastern Vicariate, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News, Vatican, Video Pope Francis named Redemptorist Father Bruce A. Lewandowski as a new auxiliary bishop of Baltimore. The announcement was publicized June 10 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
