Radio Interview: A Catholic heart in legal defense November 24, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Prison Ministry, Radio Interview Catholic Review Radio host Mark Viviano talks with Baltimore-area attorney Mark Scheuerman, a devout Catholic and parishioner of St. John the Evangelist in Severna Park, whose faith is the foundation of his legal practice.
New program would ‘change the whole paradigm’ for those released from prison October 19, 2025By Natalie Hoefer OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, News, Prison Ministry, Social Justice, World News The new reentry program “is rooted in the principles of Catholic social teaching, especially the dignity of the human person and solidarity,” said Archbishop Charles C. Thompson.
Experts provide tools for ministries to support immigrants affected by incarceration June 18, 2025By Maria del Pilar Guzman OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Prison Ministry, World News Attorney Zaira Solano set the tone for the webinar “Immigration 101 for Ministry: Tools to Support Those on the Journey” by highlighting the increasingly dire immigration crisis that the United States is undergoing.
Coalition aims to have an active prison ministry in all U.S. dioceses, get more laity involved February 22, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Prison Ministry, World News Those who accompany the incarcerated have said there is a lot to do in ministering to a population that has committed crimes and had to live with the consequences of those actions.
Father Canterna earns Dismas Award for tireless prison ministry December 18, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Prison Ministry, Vocations Father Charles “Chuck” Canterna, who has worked tirelessly in prison ministry for nearly five decades, has been named the 2025 St. Dismas Award recipient by the Dismas Ministry, a national prison outreach organization.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Importance of fatherhood/New book by Tony Pagnotti June 21, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Books, Feature, Journalism, Local News, News, Prison Ministry, Radio Interview Josephite Father Kingsley Ogbuji shares some of his experiences ministering to prisoners and what he has learned about the importance of fatherhood. Also, Tony Pagnotti talks about his new book, “My Scripted and Unscripted Life: A Memoir of a TV Newsman.”
Supreme Court stops Texas execution for inmate’s religious liberty June 17, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, Prison Ministry, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution for Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16, saying the state prison officials need to reexamine their rule that bans clergy from being with prisoners to the execution chamber.
The Least of These: Care for prisoners doesn’t stop after release September 8, 2017By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Ministry, News, Prison Ministry, Urban Vicariate, Video, Western Vicariate “I found Christ in these men, and they shared it with me. It didn’t matter whether they were Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, there was a respect,” Father Canterna said. “The key is love. The key is your presence, your oneness with that person. You have to give of yourself, like Jesus did.”
Father Hipsley, former Cumberland pastor and prison minister, dies at 76 December 18, 2014By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Prison Ministry Father Milton A. Hipsley Jr., a former longtime pastor and beloved Cumberland-area prison chaplain, died Dec. 17.
Prison ministry: ‘Looking for something good to do’ April 4, 2013By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Local News, News, Prison Ministry Bishop Rozanski’s visit to the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women leaves the imprisoned women feeling renewed and encouraged.
