Distinctive Scholars named for 2021-22 April 8, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools The Archdiocese of Baltimore honored the academic excellence of three seniors from each of the 18 Catholic high schools within the Archdiocese of Baltimore during the annual Distinctive Scholars Convocation, held April 7 at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore.
Ascension St. Agnes announces new vice president and executive director for foundation April 8, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Ascension St. Agnes announced Aaron Piccirilli as its new vice president and executive director of the Ascension St. Agnes Foundation effective April 1.
Senate confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court April 8, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News In a 53-47 vote, the U.S. Senate April 7 confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to fill that role.
U.S. nun, 83, kidnapped in Burkina Faso April 7, 2022By Peter Finney Jr. Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The attack in which Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, was abducted from her convent in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, the morning of April 5 was conducted by at least 10 armed men, the Marianites of Holy Cross said in an electronic newsletter.
Bishop Parker confers ministry of acolyte on seminarians in Rome April 7, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Adam J. Parker, a former seminarian at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, returned to his alma mater March 20 to confer the ministry of acolyte on 24 seminarians from 17 American dioceses.
5 things to know about Holy Week April 7, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Lent, Local News, News Five things Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore should know about the upcoming Holy Week:
Sister Cora Anne Signaigo, D.C., dies at 83 April 6, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Daughter of Charity Sister Cora Anne Signaigo was offered April 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg. Sister Cora Anne died March 29. She was 83.
Sister Stella Mary Breen, O.S.F., dies at 92 April 6, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Sister Stella Mary served for six years in the Archdiocese of Baltimore at St. Clement Mary Hofbauer School in Rosedale.
Activists say fetuses from abortion clinic are ‘proof of illegal abortions’ April 6, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Two members of a group called Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising said April 5 that five fetuses taken by the police a week earlier from the Capitol Hill residence of one of the activists were “proof of illegal abortions” being performed at a Washington abortion clinic.
Father Arthur Gildea, C.Ss.R., former pastor of St. Wenceslaus and Our Lady of Fatima, dies at 80 April 6, 2022By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Redemptorist Father Arthur “Artie” Gildea, who served as pastor of St. Wenceslaus and Our Lady of Fatima in Baltimore, died at the St. Alphonsus Villa, New Smyrna Beach, Fla., March 29. He was 80.
Pope: Blood of Bucha massacre victims ‘cries out to heaven’ April 6, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis once again pleaded for an end to the bloodshed and violence in Ukraine after images of innocent civilians apparently executed in Bucha sparked outrage and horror around the world.
O’Dwyer Retreat House dedicates ropes challenge course April 6, 2022By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Video Auxiliary Bishop Adam J. Parker blessed the new course at the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat House in northern Baltimore County April 3 and took one of the first rides down the 750-foot zip line, one of three zip lines on the property; the other two lines run 300 feet each.
