Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate
Third Order Regular Franciscan Father Robert T. Sisk, who died June 23 at the St. Francis Friary at Mount Assisi in Loretto, Pa., was remembered as a kind-hearted parish priest whose humble personality contrasted with an adventurous past serving in foreign missions.
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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Local News, News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate
Sister Mary Alice Chineworth, a former superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence who overcame racial discrimination in her pursuit of a religious vocation, died June 21. She was three weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate
The archbishop called Bishop Madden “the whole package,” noting that his simplicity of dedication was inspiring.
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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate, Young Adult Ministry, Youth Ministry
“He was a preacher, but he was also a strategic thinker. He was always asking, ‘What does it take to do youth ministry well?’ and ‘What’s the vision here?’ ”
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Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, Ministry, News, Urban Vicariate, Western Vicariate
Fleeing El Salvador and a threat to her life, a young woman found refuge and new life in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. She is among the many immigrants welcomed by the Catholic Church.
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Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools, Urban Vicariate
Christine Joy “CJ” Escobar, a native of the Philippines, and Catherine Zuzarte, a first-generation Pakistani-American, often feel torn between the lands of their parents and their American community. At Baltimore’s Mercy High School, however, they always felt at home.
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Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Schools, Urban Vicariate
When St. Thomas Aquinas Elementary School in Hampden and John Paul Regional Catholic School in Woodlawn closed their doors for the final time at the conclusion of the 2016-17 school year, students weren’t the only ones to experience grief.
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Filed Under: Local News, News, Social Justice, Urban Vicariate
The control and movement of people for the purposes of sexual exploitation, forced labor, servitude or the removal of organs is considered one of the three most profitable criminal activities on the planet, alongside illicit drugs and weapons.
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Filed Under: Amen, Commentary, Urban Vicariate, Vocations
As a priest, Monsignor Bastress was in fact enlisted to act “in persona Christi” – in the person of Christ – throughout various aspects of his ministry.
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Filed Under: Local News, News, Parishes, Urban Vicariate
“It’s a great jewel in Hampden, it really is,” said parishioner Christine Barrasso of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish.
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Filed Under: Evangelization, Local News, News, Parishes, Urban Vicariate
St. Benedict Parish in Baltimore is taking the Gospel to the airwaves.
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Filed Under: Local News, News, Parishes, Urban Vicariate
On the Second Sunday of Easter at St. Anthony of Padua in Gardenville, Father Ty Hullinger and his congregation underscored the name of their neighborhood.
