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.
Men in Black games get a ‘W’ in promoting vocations October 27, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Sports, Vocations Designed as a way of promoting religious vocations, the Men in Black basketball game was all about fun and awareness.
Deacon James Mann honored as ‘Man for All Seasons’ at Red Mass October 20, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien helped usher in the start of a new judicial year Oct. 13 by celebrating a “Red Mass” at St. Thomas More in Baltimore.
Baltimore-native Father Oppitz survived famous ship’s sinking October 13, 2011By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A known author, philosophy professor, missionary and pastor, Father Oppitz survived the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria ship, which sank July 26, 1956.
Little Flower fosters unity October 6, 2011By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News “There’s always been a closeness here,” said Father Orchik, who has led the parish for nearly two decades, “but that’s even more so today. Though it has grown smaller, it has become even more closely united.”
On Ravens’ Sundays, shrines, Masses within easy walking distance for fans October 6, 2011By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Joe Flacco may be relying on the downfield “Hail Mary” pass to Torrey Smith this NFL season, but the real thing – attending Mass before or after Ravens’ games, along with devotion to the Blessed Mother and the holy Eucharist – is within easy reach of everybody at the stadium.
