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Archdiocesan leaders respond to pope’s reforms on accountability

May 9, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori welcomed Pope Francis’ May 9 document clarifying and revising norms and procedures for holding bishops and religious superiors accountable in protecting minors as well as in protecting members of religious orders and seminarians from abuse.
“I welcome his motu proprio, ‘Vos Estis Lux Mundi’(‘You Are the Light of the World’), which creates new church law establishing uniform and universal requirements for allegations of child sexual abuse, as well as for those who abuse their authority, including bishops,” Archbishop Lori said.

Baltimore Archdiocese spelling bee has middle-schoolers abuzz

May 9, 2019
By Mary K. Tilghman
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

The competition brought 38 middle school-age students from across the archdiocese – all winners of separate spelling bees at their respective schools – to Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City.

Four taking penultimate step to priesthood for Baltimore Archdiocese

May 9, 2019
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Archbishop William E. Lori will ordain four men to the transitional diaconate May 11 during a 10 a.m. Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.

AmeriCorps partnership expands sisters’ service and transforms members

May 8, 2019
By Gail DeGeorge
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News

Notre Dame Mission Volunteers-AmeriCorps is a partnership between Notre Dame Mission Volunteers, a program of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and AmeriCorps, a network of U.S. service programs.

Luke mill closure sends prayers, former pastors to Allegany County

May 7, 2019
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Western Vicariate

Bishop Adam J. Parker and Monsignor James W. Hannon added their presence to prayers for the Tri-Towns community affected by the impending closure of one of Western Maryland’s largest employers.

All in the OLPH family

May 7, 2019
By Paul McMullen
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Schools

The seventh Hildreth sibling is set to graduate from Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City.

Faith formation class focuses on children with special needs

May 6, 2019
By Emily Rosenthal Alster
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Disabilities Ministry, Faith Formation, Feature, Local News, News, Positively Catholic

“I just feel like they deserve to have sacraments and a relationship with Jesus like everyone else,” said Michele Poligardo, the CCASTA administrator for religious education. “These students with special needs are encountering Jesus through their teens (mentors) and through the acceptance and love they find in this program, and that’s what religious education should be – a way for our students to encounter a loving, forgiving God.”

Sister Mildred McCloskey, IHM, who taught in Dundalk, dies at age 100

May 6, 2019
By Catholic Review Staff
Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries

A funeral Mass was offered April 27 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton, Pa., for Sister Mildred McCloskey, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Former Ellicott City principal and area teacher dies at 86

May 6, 2019
By Catholic Review Staff
Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries

Sister Joan Bocklet, a vowed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 66 years who spent a combined 17 years serving schools in East Baltimore, Rodgers Forge and Ellicott City, died at Villa Assumpta in Baltimore April 17.

Mercy High School alumna lives her Catholic faith by teaching others

May 3, 2019
By Elizabeth Lowe
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Faces of Faith, Faith Formation, Feature, Local News, News, Schools

One of the most important lessons of Christianity that Becky Egan Hogg tries to convey to her religion students at Mercy High School in Baltimore is God’s unconditional love.

#IAmCatholic: Archdiocesan movement helps people share faith experiences

May 2, 2019
By Christopher Gunty
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Faith Formation, Feature, Local News, News

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has launched a new website to help people share their experience of the Catholic faith.

John Carroll baseball says ‘a little prayer’ for absent teammate

May 2, 2019
By Jeff Seidel
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Sports, Video

“He’s the 10th player on the field at all times,” John Carroll coach Darrion Siler said. “This is all player-driven. (It’s) totally them, finding ways they want to keep remembering.”