In early July, five goats arrived in the cemetery from a farm in nearby Black Creek. They're helping tackle the cemetery's problem with buckthorn, an aggressive, invasive species of shrub that had overtaken the cemetery's riverbank.Read More

Cemetery In the Charge of Location Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery Loney’s Lane (Formerly) 4430 Belair Road, Baltimore, MD 21206, (410) 485-4227 St. Alphonsus Rodriguez 1885-Present St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (Woodstock) 10817 Davis Avenue, 21163 11100 Old Court Road Phone: 410-461-5267 St. Anthony Shrine 1806-Present St. Anthony Shrine (Emmitsburg) 16150 St. Anthony Road, 21727 Adjacent to OurRead More

Frederick V. Roussey heads a cemetery crew like the city cop he once was. The day begins with morning roll call in the house at a corner of New Cathedral Cemetery, where he is superintendent. There, he dispatches his crew in new fire-engine-red trucks to the 125-acre cemetery in West Baltimore.Read More

Descendants of those buried in a cemetery in Baltimore’s Clifton Park are working to clean up its unmarked, overgrown and neglected grounds.Read More

Saying the parish was providing gateways to God’s eternal life, Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski blessed a massive expansion of St. Joseph in Fullerton’s cemetery and the addition of new church doors Oct. 1 during a Mass.Read More

For Anne Lucido, the complexities of life and death are part of the job – literally. The St. Agnes, Catonsville, parishioner has worked at New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore for 37 years.Read More

In previous years, the pope marked All Souls' Day by visiting a Rome cemetery. This year, he chose to visit a U.S. military burial ground and, later in the day, the site of a Nazi massacre at the Ardeatine Caves in Rome to pray especially for all victims of war and violence.Read More

Deciding how to handle such a tragic event can be very burdensome. We hope that this will be a valuable source of information about a topic that is seldom discussed. The following are the policies of local Catholic hospitals on burying a miscarried child’s remains or providing those remains to the child’s parents for burial:Read More