Archbishop William E. Lori offered the funeral Mass for David Modell at the Baltimore Basilica Jan. 17.

Father Casimir M. Peterson, a priest who attracted international attention for using detective skills in uncovering a long-forgotten Marian crown of jewels, died Dec. 4.

A priest for 60 years, Father Rose is remembered for his bravery, compassion, intellect and service.

A seminarian from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg is believed to have drowned after saving the life of a woman who fell into the Arkansas River July 9.

Scalia said it wasn’t his job to make policy or law, but to “say only what the law provides.”

In a final sendoff marked with heartfelt displays of raw emotion, hundreds of people said goodbye to Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano.

Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano, basilica rector and a man described by Archbishop Lori as a priest of “tremendous pastoral love,” died Sept. 5.

St. Francis Xavier Church in East Baltimore bade farewell July 28 to the scholar who made its rich history come alive.

William L. Gaudreau, a leading post-Vatican II architect who designed many churches, school buildings and other structures in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died July 6 of heart failure at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Baltimore. He was 84.

Redemptorist Father Thomas Brendan Loftus, who served at Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown and Our Lady of Fatima in Baltimore, was remembered for the personal commitment behind his strident preaching.