Monsignor Cummings, former Navy chaplain and longtime pastor, ready for retirement June 30, 2022By Mary K. Tilghman Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations As he prepares for retirement, Monsignor Carl Cummings said he has been gratified to help people join the Catholic faith – or return to it in the sacrament of penance.
Leadership transition coming to Baltimore Basilica as Father Boric prepares to enter Carmelite hermitage June 23, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations After much discernment and with the blessing of Archbishop William E. Lori, Father Boric will leave the archdiocese this summer to become a postulant with the Hermits of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel
Ordination of five priests is moment of ‘incredible joy’ for Archdiocese of Baltimore June 18, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2022, News, Vocations In a jubilant June 18 litugy, Archbishop William E. Lori ordained five men to the priesthood, including three from Cameroon.
Real-life experience: Pastoral formation helps seminarians learn to live the ministry of a priest June 14, 2022By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Pastoral formation is one of the four core disciplines of a seminarians’ education along with human, intellectual and spiritual formation.
Quo Vadis camp set for July 11-14 June 13, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations High school boys and recent high school graduates are invited to attend “Quo Vadis Baltimore,” a four-day, three-night vocations camp hosted by the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Baltimore July 11-14 at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park.
Pope: People expect priests to be models, guides June 9, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News People have high expectations for priests to be good spiritual and moral guides, to be active in helping the community and families, and to be someone young people can look up to, Pope Francis told bishops and priests from Sicily.
Two cultures in one faith for Sister Lucero Romero June 9, 2022By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News, Vocations Sister Lucero Romero made her first vows in 2017 and is preparing to profess her perpetual vows this year or next year.
RADIO INTERVIEW: A mom’s perspective on a son’s journey to the priesthood June 7, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations Mary Ellen Bilenki is a parishioner of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez in Woodstock and the mother of Deacon John Bilenki, a recently ordained transitional deacon for the Archdiocese of Baltimore who is expected to be ordained a priest for the archdiocese next year. She shares a parent’s perspective of watching a son journey toward the priesthood.
Cameroonian Deacon Lukong wants to ‘be there’ for people June 2, 2022By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2022, News, Vocations Deacon Kenneth Lukong considered studying modern letters or becoming a journalist, but as he looked at all those possibilities, he decided to follow the one he thought would bring him the most inner joy and fulfillment would be the priesthood.
Deacon Maurice Sunde Afor keeps prayer an essential part of his faith June 2, 2022By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, New Priests 2022, News, Vocations Deacon Maurice Sunde Afor gets a kick out of combining his recreational passion with his ministry.
Deacon Bors follows unusual path to the priesthood June 2, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2022, News, Vocations Deacon James Bors decided to devote the rest of his life to serving God and the church. He will be ordained to the priesthood June 18 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
Cameroon native and Catholic convert looks forward to ‘serve the people of God’ as a priest June 2, 2022By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2022, News, Vocations Deacon Peter Kiamo-oh was attracted to the Catholic faith through the example of teachers and others at his school in Cameroon.
