Obituaries

Cardinal Stafford praised Monsignor Robert Armstrong’s welcoming spirit to people in the parishes he served.

“The church asked him to become a father to the people of God and he did that extraordinarily well,” Father Seitz said.

Archbishop William E. Lori offered the funeral Mass for David Modell at the Baltimore Basilica Jan. 17.

Father Casimir M. Peterson, a priest who attracted international attention for using detective skills in uncovering a long-forgotten Marian crown of jewels, died Dec. 4.

A seminarian from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg is believed to have drowned after saving the life of a woman who fell into the Arkansas River July 9.

Scalia said it wasn’t his job to make policy or law, but to “say only what the law provides.”