Hundreds of members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and guests convened for the organization’s annual assembly Aug. 11-13, which was as much a retreat as a meeting.
Vocations
The Call
Robyn Barberry talks with priests and brothers about their call to religious life.
Mount de Sales graduate elected a successor to Mother Angelica
Buck, whose religious name is Mother Mary Paschal of the Lamb of God, was elected abbess in late July, taking on the same post that was once held by Mother Angelica.
Priest Life, Part 1: The Challenge
The most important thing I want readers to learn is that priests never lose their sense of individuality.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Quo Vadis Vocations Camp
Luke Koski, a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, shares his call to the priesthood and talks about Quo Vadis, an upcoming vocations camp for high school boys.
RADIO INTERVIEW: So you’re getting a new priest?
Father Brian Nolan speaks with Father Jim Proffitt, archdiocesan director of clergy personnel, about the process of how priests are assigned to parishes. He also speaks with Father Michael DeAscanis, outgoing pastor of St. Philip Neri in Linthicum and St. Clement I in Lansdowne, about how priests prepare for and experience a change in assignment.
Father Kady returns to home parish in Allegany County for ordination to priesthood
Archbishop William E. Lori ordained Father Scott Kady during a Mass that was both a family affair and homecoming, in multiple ways.
Deacon George Evans, part of the first class of American permanent deacons, to celebrate 50 years of ministry
Deacon Evans’ work has spanned generations. He would celebrate the weddings of young couples and years later be on hand for the baptisms and marriages of their children.
Deacon Kady’s path to priesthood included Saudi Arabia, footsteps of St. Paul
“Scott is a marked man, a good man,” Father Gauchat said. “There’s an integrity about him, a peace, a maturity. I’m proud that he hung in there.”
Twin seminarians at Baltimore seminary following one after the other into the priesthood
There may be one way to tell the Daghir twins apart: Ben is further ahead than Luke in his graduate seminary work. Ben was ordained a transitional deacon in May, and if all goes well, will be ordained to the priesthood for the twins’ native Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania, over the Memorial Day weekend next year.
Report shows 19,000 U.S. deacons; age, retirement are factors for diaconate
Based on responses to a questionnaire sent to all U.S. dioceses, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate estimates there are about 19,000 deacons in the United States today.
Retiring priests: Celebrating a combined three centuries of ministry
Six priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore who have combined for nearly 300 years of ministry will be retiring July 1. The Review profiles the six as their parishes bid them farewell.