Roman Catholic Church

I wonder if my cousin, my cousin's daughter and I will be going to hell - not to mention the priest who sat by as the three of us eulogized Aunt Elizabeth in the Catholic parish where she had been baptized into the faith more than 80 years ago. Eulogies are supposed to be forbidden at Catholic funerals. That's why, over the years, we've seldom heard priests make personal remarks about the departed. Those few who did might have been asking for trouble. I assume the priest who celebrated the funeral of Aunt Elizabeth probably still has his job; I've not heard otherwise.

Mary Ellen Lamantia wept through the entire service the first time she attended a traditional Latin Mass. "I felt like I had found my home again," she said of the Tridentine rite she heard at Christmastime in 1979 with other members of St. Hilary Roman Catholic Church. "It's the true Mass, the Mass of the Apostles themselves, handed down 2,000 years ago. It should not - and cannot - be changed." The expected release of a document from Pope Benedict XVI that would allow more churches to celebrate the old Latin Mass has sparked hope among some traditional Catholics for a revival of the quiet and reverent church service that largely faded from use during the 1960s.

On November 3, 2007, Josephine CeciliA children, one great-grandchild, and a host of other family and friends. Friends may call the family owned WYLIE FUNERAL HOME P.A. OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, 9200 Liberty Road. Services will be held Wednesday at St. Marks Roman Catholic Church, 27 Melvin Avenue, 9:30 Visitation 10:00 Mass. Interment Saturday, November 10, 2007 in Richmond, VA. Inquiries www.wyliefuneralhome.com

Eleanor Aldridge, who with her husband opened Reno's Restaurant more than 50 years ago at a rural crossroads in Gambrills, died of pneumonia Thursday at Anne Arundel Medical Center. She was 92. For more than two decades, she ran the business side of the small restaurant and did much of the home-style cooking. In retirement, she continued to make the coleslaw and soups as well as a few other dishes. In recent years, as her health declined, she did not cook but came in a few times a week to look in on the kitchen, see customers and chat with family.

Isabel Woodward, a retired nursing assistant and world traveler, died in her sleep Friday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former longtime Catonsville resident was 90. Isabel Cabezali was born, raised and educated in Blanca, Argentina. She was married in 1937 to Cyril Woodward, a mechanical engineer. In 1954, the couple fled the Argentinian dictatorship of Juan Peron and settled in Catonsville. Mrs. Woodward settled into the life of a homemaker and, during the 1960s, began volunteering in the nursery unit at St. Agnes Hospital.

The Rev. William J. Watters' appointment as pastor of St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church in 1991 came with a clear set of marching orders: determine whether the ailing downtown parish could be revived or shut it down.Tomorrow, the parishioners of St. Ignatius, Baltimore's Jesuit parish, will mark a milestone in the church's rebirth, as they celebrate a $1.7 million renovation that has restored the 143-year-old church's original grace and elegance.Having redefined its mission to the city and created ministries to address that mission, the church has made a statement that St. Ignatius' parishioners are not about to abandon the church or Baltimore.

Two Latin words -- ex corde -- are getting a lot of attention on the campuses of Catholic colleges and universities these days.They are the first two words of a nearly decade-old church document issued by the Vatican dealing with the relationship between these institutions and the church.A proposal to turn the abstract ideas of that document into concrete policy has many college leaders concerned."I think it would turn what has been a moral relationship into a legal relationship," said the Rev. Harold E. Ridley, president of Loyola College.

Florence Catherine Healey, a longtime volunteer at St. Benedict Roman Catholic Church, died of a heart attack Monday at her Frederick Road home in the Paradise section of Catonsville. She was 84.For 40 years, she counted church collections, distributed raffle tickets and drove nuns to their doctors' appointments."She ran the parish raffle for 40 years," said the Rev. Paschal A. Morlino, a Benedictine priest who is pastor of the Southwest Baltimore church where she was a member. "Florence raised hundreds of thousands of dollars -- first for the school and then for the maintenance of the church."

Gertrude Johnson, a food service worker, died Friday of cancer at her Glen Burnie home. She was 79.She was a food service worker at Bay Hills Golf Club in Arnold, where she had been employed since 1984. Earlier, she was an office worker at automobile dealerships in Glen Burnie.The former Gertrude Lambert was born in Clifton, N.J., and moved to the Brooklyn section of the city as a child. In 1937, she graduated from Seton High School.Marriages to William J. Lloyd Sr. and Ellsworth Handschuh ended in divorce.

Frank J. Blair, 85, attorney, helped needyFrank J. Blair, a Southwest Baltimore attorney who provided free legal services to the needy, died Monday of pneumonia at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. He was 85.Mr. Blair, who lived in Annapolis, had a general legal practice on Washington Boulevard for nearly 50 years."He was a man of immense charity who was known for the great amount of pro bono work that he did for the needy who found their way to his office," said the Rev. Michael J. Roach, pastor of St. Bartholomew's Roman Catholic Church in Manchester, formerly pastor of St. Peter the Apostle at Poppleton and Hollins streets.

Anna C. Cotterino, a retired registered nurse and former longtime Cockeysville resident, died Sunday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Corsica Hills Center in Centreville. She was 87. Anna Catherine Eberly, the daughter of a coal miner and an elevator operator, was born and raised in Frostburg. After graduating in 1940 from Beall High School in Frostburg, she earned her nursing degree. She began her nursing career in the 1940s at Sacred Heart Hospital in Cumberland, and then moved to upstate New York, where she continued nursing.

Corrine E. Callahan, a homemaker who earlier in her life had been a registered nurse anesthetist, died Tuesday of an aneurysm at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The longtime Towson resident was 81. Corrine Elizabeth Moore, daughter of a Frederick News-Post newspaper accountant and homemaker, was born and raised in Frederick. Mrs. Callahan was a graduate of St. John's High School in Frederick and earned her nursing degree from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in 1948. After completing her anesthetist training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she went to work as a nursing supervisor at Union Memorial Hospital in the late 1940s.

James A. Liszewski, a retired Northeast Baltimore dentist and longtime Lutherville resident, died of a heart attack Aug. 27 at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 78. Dr. Liszewski, the son of Fells Point grocers, was born in Baltimore and raised on Wolfe Street. He was a 1948 graduate of Loyola High School After attending Loyola College for three years, he enrolled at the University of Maryland Dental School, where he graduated in 1955. Commissioned a lieutenant in the Air Force, Dr. Liszewski served for two years at an air base in Plattsburgh, N.Y., before being discharged with the rank of captain.

Monsignor Myles J. McGowan, the oldest priest in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and pastor of St. Ursula's Roman Catholic Church in Parkville for more than two decades, died Saturday of a stroke at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 96. "He was thoroughly a priest and was the patriarch of the archdiocese. He was well-regarded and loved by priests both young and old," said Bishop William C. Newman, a friend of 55 years. "He had a practical common sense that he was noted for. He was willing to move forward with the church, and it must have been difficult for him after Vatican II, but he did it," Bishop Newman said.

Catherine M. Travagline, a retired benefits manager and avid gardener, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The longtime Jarrettsville resident was 51. Catherine Michele Oliver was born in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk. She was a 1976 graduate of Patapsco High. Mrs. Travagline earned a bachelor's degree in business from Towson University in 1980, and a master's degree in business from Loyola College in 2000. She had been a benefits counselor for Koch Benefits Services for five years before retiring in 2005 because of failing health.

On July 24, 2009, VIOLA ELIZABETH SHAW. On Thursday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike from 5:00 to 8:00 P.M. On Friday, Mrs. Shaw will lie instate at St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church, 3300 Clifton Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11:00 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Jacquelyn M. Gunning, a former laboratory worker and longtime homemaker, died of cancer July 10 at her Severna Park home. She was 82. Jacquelyn Marie Friedel was born in Baltimore and raised in Towson. She was a 1944 graduate of Mount St. Agnes High School and earned a bachelor's degree in biology from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1948. Before her marriage, Mrs. Gunning worked for the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. and Hynson Westcott and Dunning, a Baltimore pharmaceutical manufacturer.

The stained glass windows of St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church in Fells Point are hard to see. The floral designs are shrouded by discolored plexiglass, but they are the clear focus of a dispute between developers who want to replace them with plain glass and the Polish congregants who don't want them touched. Developers who want to convert the church into a commercial or residential property say that without natural light, the building is useless. Members of the Polish community, though, say that the windows of their former church are an important legacy of their faith and history.

J OHN A. CARBONARA, 84, of Baltimore, MD, passed away June 29, 2009 at Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood, NJ. John was a life-long resident of Baltimore and had been very active in St. Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church and Little Italy. He served in the United States Army Air Corp in China, Burma, India Theatre during World War. For many years John was a printer for the Social Security Department in Baltimore, before his retirement. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered Thursday 11 A.M at St. Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church.

The treatment for terminal cancer that Annapolis resident Mary Ellen Heibel took at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2004 and early 2005 worked beyond anyone's wildest hopes, wiping out malignant tumors in her lungs, liver, stomach and chest. Her doctor did not expect it, nor could he explain it. Surely the outcome was remarkable, but was it - in the sense applied by the Roman Catholic Church in such cases - a miracle? In a few weeks, a committee appointed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore will begin exploring that question, examining 11 witnesses, including Heibel, pressing her doctors, nurses and friends in an attempt to understand what happened.