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Archbishop Lori’s Homily – Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

January 4, 2018

Archbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

Instead of insisting, however prayerfully, on her own plans and prerogatives, Elizabeth Ann Seton allowed the Lord in his incarnate humanity to gaze at her, to look into the depths of her soul, to “see” her as only God can see her and to love her as only God can love her.

Brother Kevin Strong, ‘one of the giants’ of the Christian Brothers, dies at 85

George P. Matysek Jr.

January 4, 2018

Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Schools

Brother Kevin Strong, a groundbreaking leader at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson and Cardinal Gibbons School in Baltimore who served as the first president of both all-boys institutions, died Jan. 3 in New Jersey after years of declining health.

Snow event closes all but handful of schools in Baltimore Archdiocese

Paul McMullen

January 4, 2018

Feature, Local News, News

The severe cold has caused broken water lines and other challenges at several parishes and schools across the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg star in a scene from the movie "All the Money in the World." (CNS Photo)

Movie Review: ‘All the Money in the World’

Kurt Jensen

January 4, 2018

Movie Reviews, News, World News

By turns suspenseful, darkly comic and stridently moral, “All the Money in the World” (Sony), a slightly fictionalized account of a famous kidnapping, makes a strong case that immense wealth not only can’t buy happiness, it also imposes depths of misery that few ever know.

Don’t confess other’s faults, own up to sins, pope says at audience

Junno Arocho Esteves

January 4, 2018

Feature, Video, World News

Fear and the shame of admitting one’s own sins leads to pointing fingers and accusing others rather than recognizing one’s own faults, Pope Francis said.

Matched through adoption: The first time we saw our son’s picture

Rita Buettner

January 3, 2018

Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized

I knew then that what I had heard other adoptive parents say was true. You can fall in love with a photo.

Catholic Charities warm hundreds in Baltimore with meals, shelter

Emily Rosenthal Alster

January 3, 2018

Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate, Video

As 2018 began with temperatures in the single digits, hundreds are finding food and shelter through Catholic Charities of Baltimore.

Franciscan Sister Rosa Mystica McFadden died Dec. 27.

Sister Rosa Mystica served at St. Joseph Medical Center

Catholic Review Staff

January 3, 2018

Local News, News, Obituaries

During her 16 years of ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Sister Rosa Mystica McFadden worked as a nursing supervisor at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.

Bishop William G. Curlin of Charlotte is pictured in 2017 with Rico De Silva, a Catholic Review staff writer and former correspondent for the Catholic News Herald in Charlotte. (Courtesy Rico De Silva)

A saintly bishop and like a second father

Rico De Silva

January 3, 2018

Blog, Guest Commentary

My father passed away back in 1988, when I was 24. As I looked back in my interactions with Bishop Curlin, I now realize that he was, in many ways, like a second father to me.

A New Year’s Resolution: Giving others the benefit of the doubt

Rita Buettner

January 2, 2018

Blog, Open Window

As I encounter people in my daily life—whether those who are close to me or those who are strangers—I am going to try to assume that they are acting with good intentions and their best understanding of situations.

Archbishop Lori’s remarks at Bishop Curlin’s funeral Mass

Archbishop William E. Lori

January 2, 2018

Archbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

When Bishop Curlin smiled at you, it was Jesus smiling, and when he embraced you, it was the embrace of Jesus.

Mrs. Kara Sherman

Lauren Robinson

January 2, 2018

Year of the Teacher

(St. Francis of Assisi School) Flexible Seating Leads to Classroom Success Mrs. Kara Sherman, a fourth grade teacher at St. Francis of Assisi School in Baltimore, helps students reach their full potential by implementing flexible seating in her classroom. Mrs. Sherman, who was hired as a new teacher to St. Francis this year, immediately immersed […]

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