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Mount St. Mary’s professor recalls his days with future pope in Argentina

April 23, 2025
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican

Alejandro Cañadas, now an associate professor of economics at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, met then-Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio several times from 1991 to 1997 when he was a college student in his native Argentina.

Pope’s Jesuit identity had profound impact on parishes, schools

April 22, 2025
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Saints

In an era of intense conflict during the Counter-Reformation, St. Ignatius viewed the church’s role as a summons for believers to strive to be the best Christians they could be – an imperative the late Pope Francis embraced as his own, Father Stephen Spahn said.

Hundreds gather at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen to remember late pope

April 21, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis

Black bunting draped the front of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland April 21 as hundreds gathered for an evening Mass of Remembrance in honor of Pope Francis, who died earlier that morning.

Cardinal O’Brien remembers Pope Francis as leader who made big impact

April 21, 2025
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis

Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien, former archbishop of Baltimore and retired grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher based at the Vatican, remembered Pope Francis as a leader whose years in office had a major impact.

Maryland Catholic Conference leader witnesses reflective, reverent mood settle over Rome 

April 21, 2025
By Patricia Zapor
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican

Pilgrims and tourists who had just one day earlier flocked to St. Peter’s Square awoke to the news that Pope Francis, who had greeted them there on Easter Sunday, had died. Pope Francis died at at 88, a few weeks after returning to his apartment at the Vatican following a five-week hospitalization for pneumonia.

Radio Interview: Archdiocese of Baltimore embraces lower age for confirmation

April 21, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Worship & Sacraments, Youth Ministry

George Matysek discusses the reasons for the change to a lower confirmation age with Stacy Golden, director of the Office of Family, Youth and Young Adult Ministry within the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Institute for Evangelization, and Kenn deMoll, director of formation and innovation at St. John in Westminster – a parish that has already implemented the lower age for confirmation as part of a pilot program.

Archbishop Lori encourages Catholics to attend April 21 Mass in memory of Pope Francis

April 21, 2025
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican

A special Mass remembering the late pontiff will be held April 21 at 5:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. Pope Francis died earlier that day at the age of 88.

Baltimore auxiliary bishops remember late pope with fondness

April 21, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican

Bishop Adam J. Parker and  Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., both of whom were appointed bishops by Pope Francis, are remembering their personal encounters with the late pope as inspirational moments that helped shape their ministries. 

Archbishop Lori praises Pope Francis for closeness, realism

April 21, 2025
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican

Archbishop William E. Lori said that Pope Francis could be readily described as a “pastoral pope,” a sense of service that he brought from his years as an archbishop in Argentina who was close to his priests and people.

Baltimore Archbishop William Lori saddened by death of Pope Francis; plans to host memorial Mass tonight

April 21, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori said April 21 that he was saddened to learn of Pope Francis’ passing and that he plans to attend his funeral as well as host a memorial Mass locally.

Rebuilt Brick Chapel in St. Mary’s City with its new interior features highlights Maryland as a birthplace of religious freedom

April 18, 2025
By Mark Zimmermann
Catholic Standard
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Religious Freedom

A major milestone for the Brick Chapel – a landmark of faith that symbolizes Maryland’s status as a birthplace of religious freedom in the United States – unfolded that day, as the chapel’s interior features were unveiled, culminating more than four decades of historical research, archaeological excavation and painstaking reconstruction work.

Conventual Franciscan Francis Lombardo, former teacher at Curley, dies at 90

April 17, 2025
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Uncategorized

A funeral Mass will be offered April 24 in Hamburg, N.Y., for Conventual Franciscan Father Francis (Frank) J. Lombardo, who taught English for five years at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore. Father Lombardo, a priest  of the Our Lady of the Angels Province, died April 8. He was 90.

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