local news Local NewsNews Priest-doctor with Baltimore background travels from bedside of dying mother to 18 funerals in Haiti Catholic ReviewJanuary 19, 20122 min read WASHINGTON – Passionist Father Rick Frechette, the Haiti-based director of medical services for Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International who served at St. Joseph Passionist Monastery Parish in Irvington in the 1970s, was at home in New Jersey with his dying mother when the magnitude 7 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince Jan. 12. Baltimore BasilicaLocal NewsNews Pope John Paul II prayer garden will be center of prayer George P. Matysek Jr.January 19, 20124 min read A bustling section of downtown Baltimore is about to get a quiet spot for reflection and meditation when Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien breaks ground April 11 for the long-awaited Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden. Local NewsNews Priest recalls peaceful midnight Mass in a war zone Catholic ReviewJanuary 19, 20122 min read For the past 51 years as a priest, Father John Bauer, C.Ss.R., has looked forward to celebrating Midnight Mass on Christmas, and the most peaceful one for this Highlandtown native was in the middle of a war zone. Local NewsNews Inaugural meal at new Our Daily Bread served with little fuss Catholic ReviewJanuary 19, 20122 min read The location was new, but the crowd was familiar as Catholic Charities served its first meal to the poor and homeless at its new Our Daily Bread Employment Center June 4. Before the dining room opened at 10:30 a.m., 18 people who normally eat at Baltimore’s largest soup kitchen registered for employment training. Local NewsNews Basilica pastor celebrates Mass for Ravens Catholic ReviewJanuary 16, 20122 min read Before they stepped into noisy M&T Bank Stadium for the AFC Divisional playoff game Jan. 15, some members of the Baltimore Ravens quietly gathered for morning prayer at their downtown hotel. Local NewsNews Cardinal-designate O’Brien used to new and varied assignments Catholic News ServiceJanuary 6, 20125 min read WASHINGTON – The priestly ministry of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, named a cardinal Jan. 6 by Pope Benedict XVI, has been marked by frequent assignments, so that he rarely stays in one place very long. And even when he is ensconced somewhere for a while, he gets to moving. Local NewsNews Local men profess vows as Dominicans Catholic ReviewJanuary 5, 20122 min read Two graduates of the University of Maryland College Park took a step closer to becoming Dominican priests after professing their solemn vows late in the summer of 2011 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Local NewsNewsObituaries Former Catholic Review columnist dies at 81 George P. Matysek Jr.January 2, 20122 min read Paulist Father James McCabe, former director of the Family Life Center in Baltimore and a longtime columnist for The Catholic Review, died Dec. 25, 2011 in Toronto. He was 81 and had been battling cancer. Local NewsNews Hoop dreams coming true for St. Frances Academy junior Catholic ReviewDecember 22, 20113 min read Tyshell King has no idea what her life would be like without basketball, which she began playing in middle school. Local NewsNews New CRS president gives back to faith that propelled her Paul McMullenDecember 21, 20114 min read FOURTH IN A SERIES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Carolyn Woo learned English from Maryknoll missioner sisters. In tears her first day at Purdue University because she couldn’t decipher a campus map, she found solace at its Newman Center. Woo met and married her husband at Purdue, and its church bell rang when she defended her doctoral dissertation there. Previous 1 … 379 380 381 … 410 Next
