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September 15, 2011

Good things can happen to good people

Once upon a time, on one of the coolest blocks in Baltimore City, a group of neighbors came together to show their thanks and to bring a little joy to someone’s day. A message was circulated that Miss Jenny, a very kind soul and a very good Catholic, had been nominated to win a bouquet...
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September 14, 2011

Homeschool students explain their life

In this week’s edition of The Catholic Review, I have a story about Archbishop O’Brien celebrating Mass with Catholic families who do homeschooling. Included in that story are the Hill family, who were are well know advocates for homeschool families and have done it for 30 years themselves. There are plenty of preconceived notions about...
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September 11, 2011

Sept. 11, 2001- I was just a kid

By the time August 2001 rolled around, I needed a full-time job and some cash. Post-college. I had been doing part-time sports work for the one of the country’s greatest newspapers, The Washington Post, for a year. I did whatever they asked: answer phones, gather sports agate, cover high school sports, write notebook roundups and...
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September 10, 2011

Lost audio found: Archbishop Dolan on being a good church missionary

As a reporter for Baltimore’s Catholic Review last month, I traveled to Madrid for World Youth Day and was able to get several recordings of catechesis talks delivered by Archbishop Timothy Dolan. So, each night I would return to my hotel and upload the audio. The files have proven to be some of the most...
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September 8, 2011

Nun beaten, priest injured in dispute over property in China

LESHAN, China – A nun was severely beaten and hospitalized and a priest suffered minor injuries after being attacked while trying to reclaim two former church properties in southwestern Sichuan province.
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September 8, 2011

Retaining wall collapses at St. Paul, Ellicott City

A large granite retaining wall at St. Paul in Ellicott City collapsed on top of six parked cars at approximately 3 a.m. Sept. 8, an apparent victim of flooding and possible damage from last month’s earthquake. No one was injured.
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September 7, 2011

VIDEO REPORT: Archbishop O’Brien remembers 9/11

(CR photo illustration/April Hornbeck) When terrorists attacked the United States 10 years ago this September, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was in Washington with 60 military chaplains. The archbishop, then the head of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services, witnessed calls pour in from military commanders looking for their chaplains to minister to those in need....
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September 1, 2011

Baltimore Archdiocesan Holy Name Union awards grants

The Baltimore Archdiocesan Holy Name Union celebrated its 58th annual baseball night with the Baltimore Orioles Aug. 5 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Nearly 200 Holy Name members and their families were in attendance.
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September 1, 2011

Sacred Heart to hold Healing Mass in honor of Blessed Virgin Mary

Sacred Heart in Glyndon will host a Healing Mass on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8 at 6:45 p.m. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and anointings will be offered and participants will also pray a novena to our Mother of Perpetual Help, the rosary and the Chaplet of Divine...
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August 31, 2011

The man behind the clerics

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, a former U.S. Army chaplain and former head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, certainly can come across as a no-nonsense, “get to the point,” efficient sort of gentleman. But as my coworker George Matysek pointed out in a recent blog, the priest of 46 years also has a humorous...
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August 31, 2011

Parishes fare well though many areas hard hit by Irene

WASHINGTON – From the Carolinas up the Atlantic Coast into Canada, the trail of Hurricane Irene was one of dramatic floods, wind damage and other disruptions.
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August 31, 2011

On heels of earthquake, Hurricane Irene gives archdiocese a double dose of nature

Father Michael Triplett circled back to being “duped,” a theme of Jeremiah 20:7-9, the first reading, at the end of noon Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex Aug. 28.
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