Baltimore Basilica launches plan to be ‘radically open’ July 31, 2018By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate Leaders of the Baltimore Basilica are launching a plan to increase the hours the church is open, while simultaneously commissioning “urban missionaries” whose ministry will focus on developing relationships with people on the city’s streets.
Sister M. Francis Regis Vagt, I.H.M., dies at 85 July 31, 2018By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Sister M. Francis Regis Vagt, who taught at St. Rita Elementary School in Baltimore from 1960-65, died July 28. She was 85.
Bringing it all back home to Baltimore, Father Whitt still teaching July 31, 2018By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Tribunal Father Reginald Whitt, who converted to Catholicism as a student at what was then Loyola College, finally has an assignment in his hometown, in the “healing ministry” of the archdiocesan Tribunal.
Sister Anna Hope Bauerlin, O.S.F., served in Baltimore Archdiocese for eight years July 30, 2018By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass will be offered July 31 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa., for Sister Anna Hope Bauerlin, a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 70 years.
Murphy Initiative for Justice and Peace ends ministry July 30, 2018By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News The P. Francis Murphy Initiative for Justice and Peace ended 16 years of ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore July 9.
‘This is a kid, not a cause’: Millersville parishioners host Colombian orphan July 26, 2018By Emily Rosenthal Alster Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Matt and Melanie Brady and their three children opened their home for five weeks to Esteban, a 13-year-old orphan from Colombia.
Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Hispanic community celebrates Blessed Romero’s upcoming canonization July 26, 2018By Alexandra Danter Filed Under: Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News, Western Vicariate “Monsignor Romero is and will always be the conscience of Latin America,” said St. Timothy’s pastor, Father Juan Vazquez-Rubio.
Loyola graduate students engage children in summer reading program July 25, 2018By Emily Rosenthal Alster Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools More than 50 children registered – free of charge – for daily one-on-one or small group sessions from June 27 to July 27. The weekday hour-long sessions, under the umbrella of Loyola Clinical Centers
Havre de Grace parish reaches out to family of fallen firefighter July 24, 2018By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Flynn was the father of four-year-old twins, Connor and Teagan, who were baptized at St. Patrick in March 2014. The youngest of the Flynn children, Breccan, 3, was baptized by Father Picarella in June 2016.
Baltimore priest’s Netflix cancellation goes viral July 24, 2018By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life Ten days after the pastor of Our Lady of Victory in Arbutus shared the letter July 13, the original post has been shared 615 times, and has garnered nearly 450 reactions.
Merger that includes Bon Secours announces new name, CEO July 24, 2018By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News The Bon Secours Health System and Ohio-based Mercy Health announced July 23 that John M. Starcher Jr. will lead the combined ministries when they merge as Bon Secours Mercy Health in the fall.
Archbishop: 50th anniversary of ‘Humanae Vitae’ celebrates human dignity July 22, 2018By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life The 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s landmark encyclical, “Humanae Vitae” (“Of Human Life”), is an occasion “to celebrate and revisit our human dignity, our human nature,” said Archbishop William E. Lori.
