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Bishop-designate Bruce Lewandowski is showered with well wishes during a surprise parade in honor of his appointment as auxiliary bishop of Baltimore June 13 outside Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore parishioners overjoyed as they keep a pastor and gain a bishop

Tim Swift
June 13, 2020
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Come August, he’ll have gained the title “His Excellency,” but for the parishioners of Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highalndtown and its mission church of St. Patrick in Fells Point, he’ll remain and always be “Padre Bruce.”

Conventual Franciscan Father Timothy Dore, pastor of St. Michael the Archangel in Overlea, uses a megaphone during an abbreviated funeral service May 15 for Gertrude DePalo, who died peacefully at age 96. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

In challenging time, priests lean on their own loss as they bury the dead

Paul McMullen
June 12, 2020
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Sensitive pastoral care from priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, coupled with the support of funeral homes and cemeteries, has comforted many families during the coronavirus pandemic

Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester and longtime Catholic Worker peace activist, lies on the ground after he was shoved by two Buffalo police officers June 4, 2020, during a protest against police violence against minorities. (CNS photo/Jamie Quinn, Reuters)

Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say

Rhina Guidos
June 12, 2020
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Catholic activist Martin Gugino long has been anti-war, anti-hunger, anti-violence, when it comes to opposing social ills, but the one “anti” that doesn’t fit the bill is the “antifa” moniker President Donald Trump tried to pin on him in a June 9 tweet, friends say.

In between remote teaching her students at St. John Regional Catholic School, Andrea Sommers helps her son, Henry, a first-grader there. (Courtesy Andrea Sommers)

Adapting to coronavirus pandemic as teacher, wife, mom

Brooke Mosca
June 12, 2020
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Andrea Sommers will never forget her 10th year as a teacher at St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick. She teaches social studies, English language arts and religion to 82 fifthand sixth-graders. Since mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic has forced her to do all that from home, which she shares with her husband, Dwight, a captain […]

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