local news CoronavirusFeatureLocal NewsNews Pandemic drives operating deficit for Archdiocese of Baltimore Christopher GuntyMarch 26, 20215 min read The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced this year that it recorded an operating deficit of $2.9 million for the 12 months ended June 30, 2020, for its main operations providing centralized services to parishes, schools and organizations of the archdiocese. #IamCatholicFeatureLocal NewsNewsSports 15 Baltimore Catholic school products who had a lasting impact on basketball Paul McMullenMarch 24, 20217 min read The Baltimore Catholic League is celebrating its 50th tournament this week. In order to appreciate where it’s been and where it’s going, here’s the Catholic Review’s look at the 15 players who came out of a Catholic high school in Baltimore and had the most-lasting impact on the game. FeatureLocal NewsNewsObituaries Deacon Chesnavage, World War II veteran who comforted the sick, dies at 100 Tim SwiftMarch 23, 20215 min read Deacon Albert Chesnavage, a World War II veteran who became one of the first members of the revived permanent diaconate in the 1970s, died March 19 at his home in Dundalk. He was 100. FeatureLocal NewsNewsSports Coach of the Year Myles has St. Frances Academy primed for fourth straight BCL title Paul McMullenMarch 23, 20213 min read The March 24 semifinals will pit three-time champion St. Frances Academy against Our Lady of Mount Carmel at 5:30 p.m., and Archbishop Spalding against The John Carroll School at 7:30 p.m. CoronavirusEasterLocal NewsNews Archdiocese of Baltimore makes no changes to Mass capacity for Easter Christopher GuntyMarch 23, 20214 min read Despite some changes in capacity limits in Maryland in mid-March, Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore won’t see many changes at their parishes for Holy Week and the Easter season. FeatureLocal NewsNewsRacial Justice Catholic leaders welcome move to ditch ‘Maryland, My Maryland’ George P. Matysek Jr.March 22, 20216 min read Father Raymond Harris, pastor of Holy Family in Randallstown and a member of Archbishop William E. Lori’s working group on racism, said he can’t understand why any Marylander today would want to sing a song that celebrates the Confederacy. Baltimore BasilicaFeatureLocal NewsNewsOur Back Pages Cardinal Gibbons’ death moved many Paul McMullenMarch 22, 20214 min read A sub-headline in the April 2, 1921, issue of the Review “Estimated that more than 150,000 persons viewed the body of his eminence as he lay in state at the cathedral,” America’s oldest, now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. #IamCatholicCollegesFeatureLocal NewsNewsRadio InterviewSaints RADIO INTERVIEW: St. Ignatius Loyola and the Spiritual Exercises Catholic Review StaffMarch 22, 20211 min read On the March 21 episode of “Catholic Review Radio,” Jesuit Father Stephen Spahn talks about St. Ignatius Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises. Local NewsNewsObituaries Sister Mary Frances Ambs dies at 88 Catholic Review StaffMarch 19, 20211 min read Sister Mary Frances Ambs, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who taught at St. Agnes Elementary School, Catonsville, in the 1960s, died March 14 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton, Pa. She was 88. CollegesFeatureLocal NewsNewsSportsVocations Mount St. Mary’s seminarian is at NCAA men’s basketball tourney as a team chaplain Catholic News ServiceMarch 18, 20216 min read Deacon Austin Bosse won’t be shooting three-point shots or dunking. But he is a vital and senior member of the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers, winners of the Northeast Conference tournament and a No. 16 seed in the tournament’s East Regional. Previous 1 … 223 224 225 … 415 Next