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RADIO INTERVIEW: Blessed Stanley Rother

July 26, 2021
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints

Christopher Gunty speaks with Monsignor Thomas Tewes, a classmate of Father Rother, and Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda, who wrote the definitive biography of Father Rother.

Preparedness, communication merit high marks for Catholic Charities’ nursing home

July 26, 2021
By Matthew Liptak
Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, Seniors

St. Elizabeth Rehabilitation and Nursing Center received one of its highest approval ratings from clients during the year of the pandemic, according to an annual survey by the Maryland Health Care Commission.

Married 50 years, Towson grandparents are rooted in faith

July 24, 2021
By Karen Sampson Hoffman
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, It's about love, Local News, News, Seniors

Stephen is a retired Baltimore City Schools administrator and Sandy is a former dental assistant and daycare worker. Raising children and taking active roles in their church community has kept them busy but they have always found time for one another.

Baltimore Catholics pray for homeless man whose skull was fractured in attack

July 23, 2021
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate

A homeless man befriended by Catholic urban missionaries suffered serious injuries when his skull was fractured in an attack late July 12 or early July 13.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Dignity of the Elderly

July 19, 2021
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Seniors

Erin Younkins, director of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s office of life, justice and peace within the Institute for Evangelization, talks about the dignity of the elderly in advance of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

In Baltimore, Father Kim helped create America’s first official Korean parish

July 13, 2021
By Matthew Liptak
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Urban Vicariate

Father Kim, 74, retired July 1 and celebrated his last Mass at Holy Korean Martyrs on the Fourth of July weekend, when he formally said goodbye to the congregation of about 400 families where he had been the only pastor.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Quo Vadis Vocations Camp

July 6, 2021
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations

Luke Koski, a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, shares his call to the priesthood and talks about Quo Vadis, an upcoming vocations camp for high school boys.

Forrester’s faith pays off with berth in golf’s U.S. Senior Open

July 3, 2021
By Todd Karpovich
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Sports

After eight attempts, Forrester qualified for the U.S. Senior Open in Omaha, July 8-11. He is one of 24 amateurs who made the cut for the esteemed event, whose past champions include the likes of Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus.

Outgoing Loyola University Maryland president ‘squeezes sponge dry’

June 30, 2021
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice

What makes Father Linnane especially proud is playing a role in increasing what he calls the “academic rigor” at Loyola and in dramatically increasing diversity on what had historically been a predominantly white campus.

RADIO INTERVIEW: So you’re getting a new priest?

June 28, 2021
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations

Father Brian Nolan speaks with Father Jim Proffitt, archdiocesan director of clergy personnel, about the process of how priests are assigned to parishes. He also speaks with Father Michael DeAscanis, outgoing pastor of St. Philip Neri in Linthicum and St. Clement I in Lansdowne, about how priests prepare for and experience a change in assignment.