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Feature

Funnyman with a cause

May 27, 2004
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

A well-known comic who is frequently heard on WIYY 98 Rock in Baltimore, the 1988 graduate of Archbishop Curley High School, Baltimore, appears at the Comedy Factory Outlet and local pubs.

Chaplain recounts horrors of Iraqi war

June 19, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

“Bullets are so terrible now,” said Father Erestain, a lieutenant commander and the only Catholic priest aboard the Comfort as it cruised the Persian Gulf throughout the war. “They come in and they rip the body right through,” he explained, slowly trailing a finger along the length of his abdomen to show the power of the weapons.

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.”

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