When Claire Arrabal befriended the newly ordained priest who conducted her Archbishop Keough High School retreat in the early 1970s, she had no idea that the future Bishop W. Francis Malooly would – in a manner of speaking – become wedded to her family.Read More

Monsignor James Cronin never asked Bishop W. Francis Malooly to become a priest. It was Monsignor Cronin’s daily living of the priesthood at St. Ursula in Parkville that inspired young Fran Malooly to follow in his pastor’s footsteps.Read More

As a parochial school studentRead More

Advisor and assistant to three men who directed the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Bishop W. Francis Malooly most deftly handled that role in October 2006, when tragedy struck.Read More

How is a bishop like a bar in a television sitcom?Read More

Forty-eight years old seems too young to die. The hole a man’s death leaves in his family never seems to shrink as they forge ahead without him.Read More

Father Robert F. Leavitt, S.S., made an impact on Bishop W. Francis Malooly’s ministry when, as a young priest just ordained, he taught the future bishop in a theology course at St. Mary’s Seminary, Roland Park, in 1968.Read More

Every now and then, Bishop W. Francis Malooly surprised callers to his Catholic Center office by picking up the phone himself. Expecting to hear the voice of Katherine Williams, his longtime administrative assistant, the callers were bewildered at hearing the bishop greet them with a cheery “bishop’s office.”Read More