Seton Keough principal honored with an award April 5, 2007By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools “I was glad to be at a Catholic school where Christ was at the center,” he said. “The students were incredibly resilient. It was really clear that their faith in Christ was the foundation for everything.”
Gov. O’Malley speaks to Catholic educators at mansion February 8, 2007By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools ANNAPOLIS – Standing inside the governor’s mansion he has occupied for less than three weeks, Gov. Martin J. O’Malley told a group of Catholic educators he never would have pursued a career in public service were it not for his own Catholic education. Glancing at some 30 Catholic schoolteachers and administrators, including Sister Columbkill O’Connor, […]
Launching a dream: Maryland’s youngest hot air balloon pilot sees beauty from above December 4, 2003By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools Ever since Matt passed his flight test and became Maryland’s youngest hot air balloon pilot on August 24, the nascent aviator has been on cloud nine. Floating on the winds is all he’s wanted to do since he took his first ride at age 6 when his father put him in a hot air balloon at the annual Preakness celebration.
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.”
