Almost exactly 50 years after Father Francis “Fritz” Gollery received permission to leave the priesthood, the 86-year-old clergyman has been reinstated as a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Looking back on their decades of priestly ministry, the two longest-serving priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore are grateful for the opportunities to serve people at some of the most important moments in life – whether they be happy times such as marriages and baptisms or more difficult times of sickness, loss and death.

A funeral Mass was held Nov. 13 for Oblate Sister of Providence Lucia Quesada, who died Nov. 3. She was 96 and had served an Oblate sister for more than 70 years.

As part of renovation of the church at St. Joseph in Cockeysville, a pipe organ constructed by Peragallo Organ Company in Paterson, N.J., was installed over the summer of 2024. The magnificent instrument includes 2,172 pipes.

Catholic Review Managing Editor George P. Matysek Jr. talks with two Daughters of St. Paul about their new books geared to children.

Campbell Diffendall, an 18-year-old senior at the all-girls Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, is serving as a manager for the varsity football team at Loyola Blakefield.

At the Carmelite Monastery of Baltimore, a place meant for silence and solitude, the sounds of pounding hammers and sawing have become a typical – and welcomed – sound this year as the community of religious sisters looks to the future.

A funeral Mass for Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart Sister Dolores “Dolly” Glick will be offered at the Stella Maris Chapel in Timonium Nov. 22 at 11 a.m.

Jeremy Belk started the day Nov. 10 with a full head of hair and a beard. By the end of the day, his brother had shorn him of it all.

Mary Pat Clarke, a former Baltimore City Council member who made history when she became the first woman elected council president in 1987, is being remembered by social justice advocates as a staunch promoter of inclusionary housing, racial justice and policies that support worker rights.