roman catholicism

• Maryland

Women's Soccer: McDaniel poised for successful season after NCAA berth

The Green Terror held a 3-2 lead over Catholic midway through the second half at the Green Terror Soccer Complex as dark clouds cast a shadow over the field.

• Business

Kevin Plank donates $1 million to Baltimore Catholic schools

Gift will fund scholarships for 100 students

• Baltimore City

Kevin Plank donates $1 million to Baltimore Catholic schools

Gift will fund scholarships for 100 students

• Maryland

College Football: Green Terror 'itching to play' opener

McDaniel visits Catholic in first game for new coach Mike Dailey

• Maryland

Sykesville restaurants and shops partner with nonprofits for holiday food drives

The holiday season is known as the season of giving and Baldwin's Station, located in historic Sykesville, is getting into the spirit. The restaurant will be holding two food drives this winter, one for Thanksgiving and another for Christmas.

• Baltimore City

Baltimore Catholics celebrate 225th anniversary of nation's oldest archdiocese

Two thousand Roman Catholics converged on Baltimore Sunday for a special All Saints' Day Mass celebrating the 225th anniversary of the archdiocese where American Catholicism was born.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 2, 2014

• Sun Investigates

Donors increased gifts to big Maryland charities

Goodwill, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Catholic Relief Services, The Associated received millions in private donations in 2013

By Doug Donovan

Nov 2, 2014

• Baltimore City

Remembering the homesteaders of Otterbein

A recent article about a million-dollar price on a West Lee Street rowhouse reminded me of the autumn of 1974, when I became a participant in some neighborhood advocacy journalism.

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 31, 2014

• Obituaries

Scott Linardi, roofer, metal artist

Scott Linardi, a roofer and metal artist, died Wednesday after falling from a slate roof he was inspecting in the Original Northwood neighborhood. He was unresponsive after being taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Hampden-Medfield area resident was 42.

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 31, 2014

• Obituaries

Jeanne F. Tarring, antiques shop owner

Jeanne F. Tarring, a homemaker and former owner of a Harford County antiques shop, died Monday at her Chestertown home of cancer. She was 91.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 30, 2014

• Opinion

A message to the netherworld

Halloween celebrations show we're not afraid of the dark — or what's in it

• Obituaries

Thomas J. Turner, paraplegic fought for accessibility for the disabled to sports venues and buses

Thomas J. Turner, a paraplegic who brought the issue of accessibility to the public's attention after being deemed a "fire hazard" for blocking a ramp at the old Memorial Stadium, died Sunday at his Ruxton home of heart failure. He was 57.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 29, 2014

• Obituaries

Dr. Charles K. 'Bucky' Peters Jr., dentist

Dr. Charles K. "Bucky" Peters Jr., a well-known Catonsville dentist who practiced for 53 years, died Friday at his Catonsville home of cancer. He was 83.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 28, 2014

• Obituaries

Samuel J. Dantoni, state delegate

Samuel J. Dantoni, a former Baltimore County councilman who later served in the House of Delegates and later was an administrative judge for the Social Security Administration, died Friday at La Casa, an Annapolis assisted-living facility. He was 88.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 28, 2014

• Africa

For West Africans in Maryland, Ebola is a call to action

Maryland is home to one of the nation's largest populations of West Africans, and the community is closely watching the Ebola outbreak in their home countries and looking for ways to help.

• Obituaries

Dr. Thomas J. Kenny, UM pediatric psychologist

Dr. Thomas J. Kenny, a retired University of Maryland School of Medicine pediatric psychologist, died Oct. 19 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 82.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 25, 2014

• Maryland

Book sale, trunk-or-treat among events being held

Events being held around West Carroll

• Baltimore County

Heartlights hosted at Towson Presbyterian Church meets weekly

Heartlights, an interdemominational religion class for special needs adults, has been going on for more than 50 years at Towson Presbyterian Church

• Maryland

The Shepherd's Staff to host annual Thanksgiving dinner

Shepherd's Staff dinner

• Maryland

Dr. Charles Billingslea awarded Philanthropist of the Year Legacy award

Award acknowledges the late doctor's contributions to hospital, community

• Maryland

Donations sought for dinner

The 21st Annual Shepherd's Staff annual Thanksgiving Day Dinner will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov.. 27 at St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 45 Monroe St., Westminster.

• Opinion

Catholic 'Synod of Bishops' to discuss family issues [Commentary]

The family, society's most important social unit, is in crisis, threatened by any number of factors ranging from absentee parents to pornography and sexual addictions to social injustice, consumerism and poverty, says Catholic archbishop.

• Opinion

The rollicking birth of the birth control pill [Commentary]

Susan Reimer on the birth of The Pill

By Susan Reimer

Oct 12, 2014

• Maryland

Jeffrey Peters: Be cautious of false religious 'experts' on the Internet

• Obituaries

Virginia S. Evans, Army nurse

Lucille S. Evans, a former Army nurse who served in Europe during World War II and cared for Gen. George S. Patton Jr., died Sept. 24 at Hope Hospice in Cape Coral, Fla., of renal failure. She was 98.

• Obituaries

Dr. Felix A. Khin-Maung-Gyi, ethicist

Dr. Felix A. Khin-Maung-Gyi, executive chairman and founder of Chesapeake Research Review, LLC, died Thursday at his Elliott City home of undetermined causes. He was 58.

• Obituaries

Louis S. Rizzo

Louis S. "Lou" Rizzo, a retired Domino Sugar supervisor and a World War II merchant marine veteran who was a longtime volunteer aboard the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown, died Monday at the Gilchrist Center Howard County in Columbia of pulmonary fibrosis.

• Obituaries

Mary M. "Margie" Adams, office manager

Mary M. "Margie" Adams, who worked for a mortgage origination company and was an avid physical fitness enthusiast, died Friday at her Sparks home of a massive heart attack. She was 49.

• Schools

Nine Maryland schools receive Blue Ribbon honor

Six public schools and three Catholic schools were named National Blue Ribbon Schools, a designation given to the most successful schools in the country.

• Baltimore County

Sunday morning service is first in former St. Timothy's building

Former home of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church now used by nondenominal congregation

• Opinion

Good schools deserve investment [Commentary]

The Maryland Education Credit, which was not brought to a vote last year, would attract critical financial assistance for lower- and middle-income Pre-K to 12th grade students at both public and nonpublic schools by awarding up to $15 million in education tax credits for business donations that help students pay for tutoring, tuition, supplies, transportation and special needs services.

• Obituaries

John Hasslinger Jr., accountant

John "Jack" M.E. Hasslinger Jr., an accountant who managed a well-known family seafood business, died of heart disease Tuesday at his Mount Airy home. He was 63.

• Obituaries

Robert G. Keenan Sr., teacher and deacon

Robert Gately Keenan Sr., a retired Baltimore County public schools agriculture teacher who was a Roman Catholic deacon, died of a brain tumor Tuesday at Stella Maris Hospice. The Parkville resident was 77.

• Obituaries

Francis L. Ptak, businessman

Francis L. Ptak, former owner of an environmental testing company, died Sunday at his home in the Charlesbrooke neighborhood of Baltimore County, of coronary artery disease. He was 73.

• High School sports

Champion wrestler and respected coach Marvin Matthews dies

When Gary Coleman Jr. learned that his uncle, Marvin Matthews, had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on Aug. 17, Coleman thought he would have to keep up the former Dunbar and Morgan State wrestler's spirits. He quickly found out that wasn't going to be the case.

• Obituaries

Brian K. 'Kim' Webb, insurance executive

Brian K. "Kim" Webb, a semi-retired insurance executive who remained a lifetime supporter of McDonogh school, died Tuesday at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro, N.C., of cancer. He was 77.

• Laurel Leader

New pastor invites community to discuss diversity, Bible [Maryland City]

The new pastor of Community United Methodist Church, the Rev. Selena Johnson, invites the neighborhood to join her and the Community congregation in a special grouping of services and discussion groups on the subject of diversity and what the Bible says about diversity. Resurrection of Our Lord Catholic Church hosts a parking lot sale Saturday, Oct. 4 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 8402 Brock Bridge Road. The Maryland City Recreation Council's soccer, flag football and travel soccer teams have begun

• Obituaries

Richard E. Kleinfelder, construction manager

Richard E. Kleinfelder, a retired construction manger who earlier had been in heavy equipment sales, died Saturday at Stella Maris Hospice of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 66.

• Obituaries

Robert W. Halli Sr., mechanical engineer

Robert W. Halli Sr., a retired mechanical engineer who had worked for NASA and earlier the old Glenn L. Martin Co., died Sept. 8 at Stella Maris Hospice of heart failure. He was 100.

• Opinion

Violence -- sexual, psychological, verbal or physical -- is never OK [Commentary]

I am inviting Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to help prevent domestic violence by creating awareness that abuse, whether physical or psychological, is never acceptable. That is why we are conducting a coordinated education and resource initiative to educate our first responders — clergy, pastoral ministers, and parish front office staff and others — to assist abuse victims with immediate needs and to educate families through the work of our Family Life Office on ways to

• Maryland

Leave religion out of government [Letter]

• Sports

Terror hopes to get defensive, start 2-0

• Obituaries

Robert W. Weinhold Sr., decorated Army Ranger

Robert W. Weinhold Sr., a decorated Vietnam War Army Airborne Ranger who later worked for several financial institutions, died Monday at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center of kidney failure. He was 75.

• Obituaries

Octavia Dugan, Cross Keys boutique owner

Octavia Dugan, who founded a Village of Cross Keys boutique and was considered an arbiter of traditional fashion, died in her sleep of undetermined causes Saturday at Palm City Nursing Home in Palm City, Fla. The former Cromwell Valley resident was 98.

• Maryland

Protestant-Catholic hybrid homeschool program begins classes

Christiana Homeschool Academy, a classical education hybrid homeschool program, begins classes for the year.

• Maryland

Hoyt proud of Terror's response to adversity in opener with comeback

• Maryland

Jeffrey Peters: Christians must fight for justice

• Sports

Terror rally for big win

• Obituaries

Albert A. Logan Jr., Boys' Latin teacher

Albert Asbury "Ab" Logan, a retired Boys' Latin School teacher who worked in Baltimore neighborhood organizing in the 1970s, died of cancer Aug. 25 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Cockeysville resident was 70.

• Sports

Terror: 'We need this one'