Chaplain recounts horrors of Iraqi war June 19, 2003By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations “Bullets are so terrible now,” said Father Erestain, a lieutenant commander and the only Catholic priest aboard the Comfort as it cruised the Persian Gulf throughout the war. “They come in and they rip the body right through,” he explained, slowly trailing a finger along the length of his abdomen to show the power of the weapons.
Travolta movie films scenes at St. Michael, Fells Point May 14, 2003By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News Disney film crews were on site at St. Michael from April 27 to May 2 filming the baptism and funeral scenes and a Christmas Midnight Mass scene.
Emmitsburg a healing place for moms in jail May 8, 2003By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life Phyllis Matthews found out she was pregnant only one day before she was scheduled to enter the Women’s Detention Center in Baltimore to serve time for heroin possission. Having a baby in prison was the last thing the 34-year old single mother of five wanted to endure, especially since she knew that her infant would be taken from her immediately after birth.
Philip Berrigan praised as ‘prophet of peace’ at Baltimore funeral Mass December 14, 2002By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Hundreds of people marched through the troubled, poverty-stricken streets of west Baltimore Dec. 9 to celebrate the life of controversial Catholic peace activist Philip Francis Berrigan.
Catholic schools get tough on Internet plagiarism August 13, 2002By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools These days, it takes less than five minutes to log onto the Internet and download whole papers complete with footnotes and bibliographies. Several Web sites offer such a “service” for free or a small fee, posting hundreds of papers on topics ranging from American literature to Shakespeare to world history.
Catholic school student wins national handwriting contest June 10, 2002By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools More than a few doctors, notorious for their illegible scribble, would do well to take Michael Daniel Fairley’s advice about good handwriting.
Mutilated African war victims helped by Baltimore Catholic school November 30, 2001By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools Friends of Sierra Leone estimates that 75,000 unarmed civilians have been killed and 20,000 mutilated during Sierra Leone’s 11-year-old civil war.
Catholic astronaut from Essex to head for space station aboard shuttle January 18, 2001By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools “When you’re in space, and you look back at earth, it strikes you as an overwhelmingly beautiful vision,” Jones said. “It makes me think that God constructed us to appreciate this aspect of creation. He put something in our brains to appreciate the magnificence of creation.”
Maryland firm stops selling body parts from abortions February 1, 2000By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life A decision by a Maryland company to stop procuring and distributing body parts obtained from aborted fetuses is drawing praise from pro-life supporters who had protested the practice as abhorrent and inhumane.
Emmitsburg seminary boasts record number of new students October 8, 1999By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Vocations, Western Vicariate While many seminaries around the country have struggled to attract students in recent years, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg is bursting at the seams.
Family ties bring about housing complex for deaf seniors September 20, 1998By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Deaf Ministry, Disabilities Ministry, Local News, News Ground was broken this summer in Baltimore County for the nation’s first elderly housing complex dedicated exclusively to the needs of deaf and hearing-impaired seniors.
Confronting fear, faith and hope: Nigerian missionaries grapple with tough Baltimore realities July 9, 1998By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News As the priest sits in his solitary rectory office at St. Peter Claver in West Baltimore, a driving spring rain beats against the iron-barred windows. The storm pelts scattered debris on the streets and sidewalks of the troubled neighborhood – flushing foam cups and bits of broken concrete into the gutter along Fremont Avenue. Not so easily washed aside, however, are the young drug dealers
