Bishop F. Joseph Gossman, a former auxiliary bishop of Baltimore who served as the archdiocese’s first urban vicar, died Aug. 12.

Father Christopher Whatley is convinced that believers around the world have a powerful new friend in heaven. Her name is Teresa Bartlinski.

ARBUTUS – “You can’t explain it,” said Oblate Sister of Providence Celestina Johnson, 86, searching for words to describe her feelings. She had just participated in a June 3 canonical celebration where the remains of her congregation’s foundress were transferred to a permanent home in its mother house’s chapel. “You never thought a day you’d […]

Father Dale Picarella had just finished greeting a mob of parishioners at the end of Mass when I approached him in the sacristy with a special request. Would he visit my mother at Bayview Medical Center in East Baltimore as she was recovering from cancer surgery?

“Retirement will hopefully give me psychological permission to begin to say no to some things and do a little bit less – maybe beginning by taking a half a day a week off,” the priest said with a laugh.