Ibram X. Kendi speaks on antiracism at annual Loyola University MLK Convocation January 26, 2021By Lily Gretz Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Social Justice Kendi sees the effect of the pandemic on Black people as but just one example of how systemic racism is a threat to a whole people. It’s another reason the nation must dismantle racist policies.
Sister Marie Dolores Beck dies at 85 January 26, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Sister Marie Dolores Beck, a Sister of the Good Shepherd who ministered for decades at the Good Shepherd Center in Halethorpe, died Jan. 5. She was 85.
Baltimore Archdiocese’s Life is Beautiful Mass honors Alvaré, Clarksville couple January 25, 2021By Karen Sampson Hoffman Catholic Review Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, Video “We gather to celebrate and to give thanks for the gift of human life and to proclaim and give thanks for its beauty,” Archbishop Lori said, “and to honor those who are apostles and missionaries of the message that life is beautiful.”
Father Bonadio, Sulpician known for pastoral warmth, dies at 83 January 22, 2021By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Sulpician Father Joseph J. Bonadio, who shared his gift for homiletics with seminarians and served his home parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Mayfield, a retirement community and a college with great warmth, died Jan. 20 from complications of COVID-19.
High school athletic directors calm coaches, players, parents through pandemic layoffs January 21, 2021By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Sports While teachers lead instruction for students in classrooms and at home, interscholastic sports do not translate to Zoom. Coaches and athletes pine over lost seasons; Loovis, Strickland and their peers at 16 other Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore guide them with their attitude and patience.
Sister Catriona M.K. MacLeod, OP, taught at Baltimore college, dies at 89 January 21, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Sister Catriona M. K. MacLeod, a Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa for more than six decades whose career in academia took her to Rome and what is now Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore, died Dec. 19 at St. Dominic Villa in Hazel Green, Wis. She was 89.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Growing in friendship with the Lord and others in 2021 January 19, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Father Brian Nolan speaks with Susan Pieper about practical ways of growing in friendship with Jesus in the new year and the gift of friendship that helps us along the way.
Retired Senator Miller dies, remembered as ‘lion’ of Maryland’s Senate January 17, 2021By Mark Zimmermann Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland Catholic Conference, Maryland General Assembly, News, Obituaries Retired Maryland State Senator Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. – who had been the country’s longest-serving state senate president – died Jan. 15 at the age of 78 at his home in Chesapeake Beach from complications from prostate cancer.
Ash Wednesday, other Lenten Masses will see changes in Archdiocese of Baltimore January 14, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Lent, Local News, News Upcoming liturgies in the winter and spring in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will continue to be affected by restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, including traditional celebrations of the feast of St. Blaise, Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday.
Artisans, St. Philip Neri parishioners step up for $1.5 million church renovation January 14, 2021By Matthew Liptak Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News “I think this is an effort to put God back in first place, “ said Father Michael DeAscanis, pastor of St. Philip Neri
New children’s book breathes humanity into the stories of the saints January 12, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints Carey Wallace’s new children’s book, “Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace, and Courage,” shows that holy men and women – whose miraculous deeds, charitable works and battles with armies, beasts and demons she chronicles with gusto – were also what Wallace calls “relentlessly human.”
MCC watching bills as Maryland legislative session opens Jan. 13 January 12, 2021By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News The staff of the Maryland Catholic Conference will find it a little more difficult to work with legislators in Annapolis as the 2021 session of the General Assembly opens Jan. 13.
