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.

Mark D. Pacione, a nationally respected leader in youth and young adult ministry, died suddenly Dec. 29.

Father Milton A. Hipsley Jr., a former longtime pastor and beloved Cumberland-area prison chaplain, died Dec. 17.

Sylvia “Cookie” Harris, one of the leading pro-life advocates in Maryland and a longtime parishioner of St. Joseph in Cockeysville, died suddenly Aug. 28, a few days before what would have been her 58th birthday.

Dundalk resident Bernadette Gietka was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service and aspiring playwright working four part-time jobs in June 2003 when she won the $183 million jackpot from the Mega Millions interstate lottery game. She chose the cash payout option of $112.8 million, taking home $76 million after taxes. Her win was the fourth largest in state history, a windfall both for Gietka and the charitable causes she championed.