Family ties: Priest, parishioners share special bond December 20, 2013By Elizabeth Lowe Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Uncategorized Monsignor Tewes has become a fixture over the past two decades, as the Robinsons and the 79-year-old priest have traveled, spent holidays and enjoyed hundreds of meals together.
Under Mandela, South Africa became beacon to world, says Bishop Ricard December 18, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Racial Justice Witnessing thousands of South Africans of all races vote in the first free elections after the fall of apartheid was a “great, life-changing experience” for Bishop John H. Ricard, S.S.J. “It was a very exhilarating experience to see old enemies finally reconciling and to actually see the birth of a country,” remembered Bishop Ricard, a […]
Park volunteer makes giving back a weekly priority November 22, 2013By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News While most who volunteer for the Friends of Patterson Park’s “Boat Lake Team” walk the perimeter of the water collecting empty liquor bottles and cans, food wrappers and other assorted trash, Malabayabas willingly jumps into the brush to trim away the overgrowth.
Catonsville family plans heart center in China November 22, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Ann Bartlinski and her husband, Ed, are in the process of opening a heart center in Beijing, China, called “Love You More Heart Home” for orphans and children of poor families
Westminster pastor honored as ‘Man for All Seasons’ October 28, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life Michael May, a former president of the St. Thomas More Society who has known Monsignor Farmer for 48 years, described his friend as someone who has always had an innate ability to see the good in everyone and an “extraordinary empathy for anyone he ever met.”
Tom Clancy, 66, was supporter of Catholic education October 2, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Bestselling novelist Tom Clancy died Oct. 1 at 66.
WWII prisoner of war recalls capture, redemption September 19, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News U.S. Army Air Corps Corporal Leo Wojciechowski took part in a ceremony at the Pentagon honoring U.S. prisoners of war.
All in the family: Seminarians include pair of brothers August 15, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Vocations The priesthood is all in the family for two pairs of brothers in the Baltimore archdiocese.
Bishop Gossman, first urban vicar, dies at 83 August 13, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Bishop F. Joseph Gossman, a former auxiliary bishop of Baltimore who served as the archdiocese’s first urban vicar, died Aug. 12.
Mother Lange’s relics moved to motherhouse as sainthood cause advances June 4, 2013By Maria Wiering Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Saints, Video ARBUTUS – “You can’t explain it,” said Oblate Sister of Providence Celestina Johnson, 86, searching for words to describe her feelings. She had just participated in a June 3 canonical celebration where the remains of her congregation’s foundress were transferred to a permanent home in its mother house’s chapel. “You never thought a day you’d […]
With archbishop’s blessing, St. Louis begins final building in campus master plan June 3, 2013By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Taking a shovel, Archbishop William E. Lori looked at the crowd gathered June 1 near an open lot between St. Louis Church and its pre-kindergarten-to-eighth-grade school.“
Father Breighner retires, but isn’t slowing down much April 19, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Retirement “Retirement will hopefully give me psychological permission to begin to say no to some things and do a little bit less – maybe beginning by taking a half a day a week off,” the priest said with a laugh.
