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Pope Francis uses a handkerchief during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome Feb. 26, 2020. Pope Francis has a common cold and has no symptoms that could be attributed to another illness, the Vatican said March 3. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Pope has been diagnosed with cold; symptoms unrelated to other illness

Carol Glatz
March 4, 2020
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Pope Francis has a common cold and has no symptoms that could be attributed to another illness, the Vatican said.

Archbishop Lori’s Talk: Order of Malta; “The Joy of Forgiveness”

Archbishop William E. Lori
March 4, 2020
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My prayer for you and I hope your prayer for me is this: that during the forty days of Lent we will truly experience the joy of being forgiven, a joy that comes from knowing that the Lord’s love is stronger than our sins, that his mercy has the power to dissolve our feelings of guilt, and that his forgiveness frees us to forgive and serve others.

Auxiliary Bishop Adam Parker celebrates Mass in 2019. Archbishop William Lori announced several changes at area parishes to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Kevin Parks/CR Staff)

Archdiocese to suspend sign of peace, consecrated wine at Masses as coronavirus precautions

Tim Swift
March 3, 2020
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The Archdiocese of Baltimore is taking several steps this week to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus as more cases are reported in the United States.

Those receiving special recognition pose for a photo after the Archdiocesan Scout Mass March 1 at St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick. (Karen Sampson Hoffman/Special to the Review)

Honors for Monsignor Phillips, now Scout chaplain emeritus 

Karen Sampson Hoffman
March 3, 2020
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Scouting and faith were celebrated at the annual Archdiocesan Scout Mass and Presentation of Awards March 1. Boy Scouts from troops across the archdiocese were invited to St. Katharine Drexel Church to receive religious awards earned in the past year.

A woman enters a polling station located inside the headquarters of the Nesconset, N.Y., Fire Department on Election Day Nov. 6, 2018. In some parts of the U.S., regular Massgoers have been tracked through cellphone location data by at least one organization looking to turn out voters to support specific political candidates. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Practice of tracking Massgoers for political purposes gains scrutiny

Dennis Sadowski
March 2, 2020
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Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, a political action group with no ties to the Catholic Church, has written repeatedly about how his organization has used “the latest technology to find Catholics, connect with them, register them to vote and then get them to the polls.”

Newlyweds Anne Mathews and Sriram Manivannan of St. Joseph Parish in Cockeysville were sponsor and catechumen, respectively, at the Rite of Election at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland March 1. (Paul McMullen/CR STaff)

Path to Catholic faith winds from India through Western Maryland to Cockeysville

Paul McMullen
March 2, 2020
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Manivannan was among 121 catechumens and 234 candidates participating in the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion at the cathedral, where Archbishop William E. Lori presided. They represented more than half of the total who will be fully initiated or come into full communion with the church at the Easter Vigil,

Father Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and Reina Sofia Prize winner, listens to his assistant during a Feb. 16, 2017, meeting at his house in Managua, Nicaragua. Father Cardenal died March 1, 2020, at the age of 95. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)

Father Ernesto Cardenal, poet and revolutionary, dies in Nicaragua

David Agren
March 2, 2020
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Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. He was 95.

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