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Two city parishes to host gun turn-in-days

Catholic Review
November 30, 2009

Coming off the success of more than 50 guns turned in at a West Baltimore church in September, but concerned that gun violence in the city remains high, St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church will sponsor its eighth “Gun Turn-In Day” Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church at 1542 N. Gilmor St. The program will expand to the east side of the city, with the first-ever weapon collection at St. Wenceslaus Church, 2111 Ashland Ave. at the same day and time.

Army Staff Sgt. Scheidelman unfolds the American flag to re-drape the coffin of Army Spc. Christopher James Coffland at his funeral Mass Nov. 21 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland

Soldier killed in Afghanistan is remembered as Renaissance man

George P. Matysek Jr.
November 26, 2009

As more than 800 mourners sang “America the Beautiful” and the bells of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen tolled on a sunny Nov. 21 afternoon, Toni Coffland silently reached out and touched the gray casket that held her 43-year-old son, Christopher.

Mass at St. Alphonsus Turkey Bowl

Catholic Review
November 20, 2009

Father Gerard Francik, Father Richard B. Hilgartner, Father Michael S. Triplett and Monsignor Arthur W. Bastress will celebrate a Mass for Thanksgiving at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 26 at the Shrine of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, prior to the annual Turkey Bowl between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield.

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