St. Luke honors longtime pastor at his retirement December 13, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Retirement EDGEMERE – Standing at the back of St. Luke Church following a Dec. 11 Mass marking his retirement, Monsignor Joseph S. Lizor Jr. extended both arms to shake hands with the many parishioners who wanted to greet him. Several children gave the 79-year-old pastor homemade cards, while hugs seemed to engulf the vested clergyman faster than he expected.
St. John’s Catholic Prep plans move to new campus in Frederick County December 7, 2011By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Western Vicariate St. John’s Catholic Prep in Frederick has announced it will be moving to the campus of St. Thomas More Academy in Buckeystown. St. Thomas More will move to a yet to be determined site in Frederick County.
Updated: Mount St. Joseph mourns revered president December 5, 2011By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Ever the poetic soul, Xaverian Brother James M. Kelly died as the sun was rising Dec. 3, the feast day of his congregation’s patron, St. Francis Xavier.
Christmas stamp features Walters Art Museum treasure by Raphael December 5, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Local News, News A Raphael masterpiece that hangs in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is getting national attention this holiday season as the U.S. Postal Service features the “Madonna of the Candelabra” as one of its 2011 Christmas stamps.
Interfaith leaders pledge to defend traditional marriage in Maryland December 1, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Leaders of a newly-formed pro-marriage coalition came out swinging against efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland – pledging in a Nov. 30 press conference to rally citizens across the state to defeat legislation that would alter the traditional definition of marriage.
CRS partners include U of M Medical School leader who is Cathedral parishioner December 1, 2011By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Local News, News PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –On a sweltering October day, a team of leaders from Catholic Relief Services stopped at St. Francois de Sales Hospital here to receive an update on plans to rebuild and transform it into a teaching hospital.
Vatican will not consider Annapolis healing case November 30, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Vatican experts have declined to consider the case of the apparent healing of an Annapolis woman as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Francis X. Seelos, a 19th century Redemptorist priest who was pastor of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, St. Mary in Annapolis and Ss. Peter and Paul in Cumberland.
City pastors want to help clear the streets of guns November 29, 2011By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Monsignor Damien Nalepa and Father Peter Lyons are never giving up on Baltimore City and they want everyone else to have that faith as well.
Parishes welcome new English translation of Roman Missal November 29, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Father Matthew T. Buening looked out on his congregation Nov. 27 as he was concluding Mass at St. Paul in Ellicott City and spoke words he has offered throughout his priesthood.
Miracle man? Paralyzed priest, former Annapolis pastor, begins walking November 22, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News EPHRATA, Pa. – When Redemptorist Father John Murray bashed his head against a railing after tripping along a New Jersey boardwalk 15 months ago, the consequences were devastating.
Bishop Spencer honors veterans on Veterans Day November 11, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: 9/11, Local News, News ELLICOTT CITY – In a Veterans Day homily at St. Paul in Ellicott City, Auxiliary Bishop F. Richard Spencer of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services challenged Catholics to never forget the needs of the nation’s veterans.
Priests overjoyed and humbled by monsignor honors from pope October 27, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Pope Benedict XVI has recognized the stellar ministry of three priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore by conferring the title “monsignor” on two of them and raising a previously named monsignor to the highest rank of monsignor.
