NEWS
By Mary Gail Hare and Alison Knezevich, The Baltimore Sun | January 23, 2012
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has launched its own investigation into a Towson priest arrested this month on charges of indecent exposure at an adult store. Mark Stewart Bullock, 47, is scheduled for a March 6 court appearance in District Court in Harford County on misdemeanor charges that carry a maximum fine of $1,000 and three years in prison. Church officials have removed "all his faculties to function as a priest," said Sean Caine, archdiocese spokesman. "The archdiocese is doing its own investigation and will be speaking to anyone who might help us understand what is happening in his life," Caine said.
NEWS
By Michelle Boorstein and The Washington Post | March 15, 2012
A Gaithersburg priest who was put on administrative leave from his parish after a controversial funeral Mass at which he denied Communion to a lesbian said in a statement Wednesday that he "did the only thing a faithful Catholic priest could do" and suggested that archdiocesan leaders and the woman were lying. The Rev. Marcel Guarnizo had declined to comment publicly since the Feb. 25 Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, where Barbara Johnson was mourning her mother. Having learned just before the Mass that Johnson, a 51-year-old D.C. artist, was a lesbian living with her partner, Guarnizo refused to let her receive Communion.
NEWS
By Matthew Hay Brown | matthew.brown@baltsun.com | January 11, 2010
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has removed a Laurel priest from the ministry while it investigates allegations against him of sexual misconduct during the 1980s, the archdiocese said on Sunday. The Rev. John Wielebski, 62, pastor at Resurrection of Our Lord Church, has denied all of the allegations, the archdiocese said. The archdiocese revoked his authority to function as a priest in December. The misconduct is alleged to have occurred while Wielebski was at St. Dominic Church in Baltimore, where he was assigned from 1985 to 1988, and Monsignor Clare J. O'Dwyer Retreat House in Sparks, where he was assigned from 1988 to 1991.
FEATURES
By Matthew Hay Brown | matthew.brown@baltsun.com | December 25, 2009
For the Rev. Bruce Jarboe, coming up with a homily for Christmas Mass is both a challenge and an opportunity. He knows that in this time of war and economic anxiety, the holiday might be the only occasion all year that some of his listeners will be visiting a church. As worshippers pack Holy Trinity Church in Glen Burnie for the best-attended services of the year, the 50-year-old priest will have a chance - not to chide long-absent members of his flock, but to encourage them to nurture their spiritual life.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | March 15, 2012
The Very Rev. Matthew J. O'Rourke, a Josephite priest and former superior general of his Roman Catholic religious order, died of congestive heart failure March 9 at St. Joseph Manor in North Baltimore. He was 93. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., he earned a bachelor's degree at Manhattan College and a master's degree from Loyola University in New Orleans. He was ordained a priest in 1947. In 1951, he helped found New Orleans' St. Augustine High School, a predominantly African-American institution.
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Staff Reports | March 6, 2012
The trial of a Towson-area priest who was arrested in January on charges of indecent exposure was postponed on Tuesday, March 6, with no information on a new trial date immediately available. The Rev. Mark Stewart Bullock, known as "Father Stew" to parishioners at Church of the Immaculate Conception in Towson, had been scheduled to appear Tuesday in District Court in Harford County. Asked which side requested the postponement and why, Harford County State's Attorney Joseph Cassilly responded in an email that it was, "a joint request for more time.