K-8 schools that closed left a mark on students June 19, 2017By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Schools, Urban Vicariate When St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School in Hampden and John Paul Regional Catholic School in Woodlawn closed their doors for the final time at the conclusion of the 2016-17 school year, students weren’t the only ones to experience grief.
Rapid Response: Maryvale runner ready to take on hackers June 17, 2017By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Schools To the dismay of corporate recruiters, Emily Craig’s cyber security career will have to wait.
Ewing’s June 24 ordination to the priesthood will be bittersweet June 16, 2017By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Vocations Deacon Kevin Ewing’s June 24 ordination to the priesthood promises to be bittersweet.
Coffee & Doughnuts with Lia Salinas June 16, 2017By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Coffee & Doughnuts, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News The Catholic Review sits down with Lia Salinas, Director of Hispanic Ministry for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
More than 2,200 graduate from 20 Catholic high schools in Archdiocese of Baltimore June 15, 2017By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools Twenty Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore graduated a combined 2,210 seniors this spring.
Our Back Pages: Terrible loss in the ‘Great War’ June 15, 2017By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Local News, News, Our Back Pages “One minute before the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 – the moment when an armistice took effect to end World War I – Henry Gunther was shot and killed near the French village of Chaumont-devant-Damvillers.”
Archbishop Lori announces mergers for three sets of parishes June 12, 2017By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Pastoral Planning, Western Vicariate The Catholic parishes in the Glen Burnie area are considering building a new church as their communities unite into a single parish.
The Least of These: Helping victims of modern slavery become survivors June 9, 2017By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Local News, News, Social Justice, Urban Vicariate The control and movement of people for the purposes of sexual exploitation, forced labor, servitude or the removal of organs is considered one of the three most profitable criminal activities on the planet, alongside illicit drugs and weapons.
After nearly 66 years in ministry, Monsignor Bastress retires June 8, 2017By Erik Zygmont Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Pastor of the National Shrine of St. Alphonsus Liguori in Baltimore since 1998, Monsignor Bastress has ministered throughout the archdiocese since his May 19, 1951, ordination at the Baltimore Basilica.
The big payback: Aspiring priest tackles student debt June 7, 2017By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Local News, News, Vocations With a degree in neuroscience and a job as a research assistant at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Oliver Avaritt had his life pretty well in order when he decided to hand it over to God and join the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph.
Renovations, new altar dedicated at Church of the Ascension June 6, 2017By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Parishes “We’ve got a consecrated altar now,” Father John Williamson, exclaimed to a parishioner greeting him in the narthex of the Church of the Ascension after a Mass May 28 in which the altar was blessed and the new sanctuary was dedicated.
‘Richly Blessed’: St. Lawrence Martyr opens new parish complex June 5, 2017By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Feature, Local News, News, Parishes While a church being replaced with a beerhall is sadly not uncommon in this day and age, the reverse is newsworthy.
