Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien issued a July 18 decree establishing Ss. Peter and Paul in Cumberland as an archdiocesan shrine. The shrine was established as a place of pilgrimage and to “foster the unique Catholic history of the Cumberland area,” the archbishop said.Read More
Despite Deacon Richard Novak’s familiar injunction to “go in peace to love and serve the Lord,” few parishioners seemed eager to leave following the July 31 morning Mass at St. Michael in Fells Point.Read More
Few Maryland sports fans will forget where they were when they heard Len Bias died June 19, 1986. My aunt worked at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale, where Len died. She called my mother to tell her the news. Len was a hero in my hometown. He went to Hyattsville’s public high school, Northwestern, and...Read More
Baltimore Ravens kicker Bill Cundiff, possibly the 2010 team MVP, and running back Matt Lawrence came to Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore City with a message Nov. 29: value your education. Cundiff said he lives by “three Fs” to succeed in the National Football League: family, friends and faith. “You guys can go great places...Read More
Holy Family in Randallstown served as a police staging area Nov. 18 after a man shot his wife and locked himself in his home on Oak Trace Way, less than a mile from the church. The woman was flown to shock trauma from Holy Family after escaping from the home.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s official inquiry into an alleged healing of a parishioner of St. Mary in Annapolis through the intercession of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos was finalized Sept. 25.Read More
By Christopher Gunty editor@CatholicReview.org BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The newest building at Bethlehem University, completed in the year 2000 and appropriately called the Millennium Building, was struck by shells fired by the Israelis. Other parts of the campus were hit as well. The damage has since been repaired, and other than the hole in the...Read More
For Immaculate Conception in Towson, the Oct. 2 installation of Father Joseph F. Barr by Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden signals that the 3,200-family parish is turning a corner.Read More
TOWSON – One by one, 50 pairs of students holding banners processed up a winding road on the campus of Notre Dame Preparatory School Sept. 14.Read More
When Elizabeth Ann Murphy was growing up in South Baltimore, she loved sneaking into the choir loft at St. Mary, Star of the Sea. Hiding away in the quiet church, the youngster would sit still and stare at the tabernacle.Read More