Cardinal O’Brien reflects on joys and challenges of his Baltimore years February 23, 2012By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools, Vocations Cardinal O’Brien leaves an indelible mark on his adopted home – reconfiguring the school system, starting a parish-planning process, speaking out strongly in defense of life and new immigrants, supporting traditional marriage and naming key leaders to archdiocesan posts.
Monsignor Adam Parker, Cardinal O’Brien’s priest-secretary, learns from his mentor February 23, 2012By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Few people know Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien as well as Monsignor Adam J. Parker.
Former Episcopalian Mount Calvary parishioners received into Catholic Church January 26, 2012By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News The parishioners were the first group of Americans to be received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church through the newly established Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, an ecclesiastical structure created by Pope Benedict XVI to make it easier to welcome former Episcopalians into the Catholic Church.
Westminster parish marks 40 years of basketball, thanks to veteran volunteers January 26, 2012By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Sports WESTMINSTER – Sitting in the bleachers as the repeated booming echoes of bouncing basketballs filled St. John’s gymnasium, Larry Baker and Donald “Bo” Yingling seemed like proud fathers.
Father Stewart Bullock arrested, removed from ministry January 25, 2012By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News “I realize that this information may be shocking and painful for you to hear, which I sincerely regret,” Father Barr wrote in his letter to parishioners. “However, in the interest of transparency and out of an abundance of care for this parish and our community, I wanted to share this news with you directly and ask for your prayers for Father Bullock and for our parish.”
Mount Carmel steps into great unknown with football January 19, 2012By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Patrick Williams always wanted to play football, but his parents thought he would get hurt.
Through sorrow, joy, Malooly family stays close January 19, 2012By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Forty-eight years old seems too young to die. The hole a man’s death leaves in his family never seems to shrink as they forge ahead without him.
Priest recalls peaceful midnight Mass in a war zone January 19, 2012By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News For the past 51 years as a priest, Father John Bauer, C.Ss.R., has looked forward to celebrating Midnight Mass on Christmas, and the most peaceful one for this Highlandtown native was in the middle of a war zone.
IND alum’s work in Haiti inspires family, friends January 19, 2012By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News K.C. Bersch first visited Haiti in 1997, when she was a student at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore. She accompanied her mother on a mission of mercy rooted in their family’s long-distance support of a child there.
A Global Affair: Baltimore finds spirit in World Youth Day January 19, 2012By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien challenged Baltimore pilgrims at World Youth Day to be a light of information when they return from Sydney, Australia.
Baby Jesus returns January 19, 2012By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News He once was lost but now is found. The plastic baby Jesus figure that vandals ripped from the outdoor manger of a Timonium Nativity scene last January has been recovered and returned to Gil and Loretta Hoffman.
Priest-doctor with Baltimore background travels from bedside of dying mother to 18 funerals in Haiti January 19, 2012By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News WASHINGTON – Passionist Father Rick Frechette, the Haiti-based director of medical services for Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International who served at St. Joseph Passionist Monastery Parish in Irvington in the 1970s, was at home in New Jersey with his dying mother when the magnitude 7 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince Jan. 12.
