local news Baltimore BasilicaFeatureLocal NewsNewsUrban Vicariate Baltimore Basilica launches plan to be ‘radically open’ George P. Matysek Jr.July 31, 20186 min read Leaders of the Baltimore Basilica are launching a plan to increase the hours the church is open, while simultaneously commissioning “urban missionaries” whose ministry will focus on developing relationships with people on the city’s streets. Local NewsNewsObituaries Sister M. Francis Regis Vagt, I.H.M., dies at 85 Catholic Review StaffJuly 31, 20181 min read Sister M. Francis Regis Vagt, who taught at St. Rita Elementary School in Baltimore from 1960-65, died July 28. She was 85. Black Catholic MinistryFeatureLocal NewsNewsTribunal Bringing it all back home to Baltimore, Father Whitt still teaching Paul McMullenJuly 31, 20184 min read Father Reginald Whitt, who converted to Catholicism as a student at what was then Loyola College, finally has an assignment in his hometown, in the “healing ministry” of the archdiocesan Tribunal. Local NewsNewsObituaries Sister Anna Hope Bauerlin, O.S.F., served in Baltimore Archdiocese for eight years Catholic Review StaffJuly 30, 20182 min read A funeral Mass will be offered July 31 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa., for Sister Anna Hope Bauerlin, a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 70 years. Local NewsNews Murphy Initiative for Justice and Peace ends ministry Catholic Review StaffJuly 30, 20182 min read The P. Francis Murphy Initiative for Justice and Peace ended 16 years of ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore July 9. FeatureLocal NewsNews ‘This is a kid, not a cause’: Millersville parishioners host Colombian orphan Emily Rosenthal AlsterJuly 26, 20188 min read Matt and Melanie Brady and their three children opened their home for five weeks to Esteban, a 13-year-old orphan from Colombia. FeatureHispanic MinistryLocal NewsNewsWestern Vicariate Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Hispanic community celebrates Blessed Romero’s upcoming canonization Alexandra DanterJuly 26, 20185 min read “Monsignor Romero is and will always be the conscience of Latin America,” said St. Timothy’s pastor, Father Juan Vazquez-Rubio. FeatureLocal NewsNewsSchools Loyola graduate students engage children in summer reading program Emily Rosenthal AlsterJuly 25, 20185 min read More than 50 children registered – free of charge – for daily one-on-one or small group sessions from June 27 to July 27. The weekday hour-long sessions, under the umbrella of Loyola Clinical Centers CommentaryFeatureKnights of ColumbusLocal NewsOur Back Pages Baltimore and the Knights of Columbus Paul McMullenJuly 25, 20183 min read The Knights of Columbus will acknowledge an important part of their roots Aug. 7-9, when the world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization holds its 136th annual Supreme Convention in Baltimore. FeatureLocal NewsNews Havre de Grace parish reaches out to family of fallen firefighter Paul McMullenJuly 24, 20182 min read Flynn was the father of four-year-old twins, Connor and Teagan, who were baptized at St. Patrick in March 2014. The youngest of the Flynn children, Breccan, 3, was baptized by Father Picarella in June 2016. Previous 1 … 322 323 324 … 417 Next
