a the pope and a man of prayer. many were shocked and surprised by the announcement. barry simms is live in baltimore with reaction. he was with the pope s seven weeks and said after hearing the news, he decided to offer prayers for the church, the pope, and he also asked the faithful to the same. to do the same. many are finding it hard to believe that they respect his decision to step down. i applaud him for the decision. to make the decision you can no longer make do the job you re elected to do. maybe he is feeling sick or he needs some rest. the bishop has also reflected on the probe political legacy and the surprise resignation. i hope we would recognize the humanity of this pope who recognized that the stamina required for this role was not his any longer. the chairman of the theology department at loyola said the authority of the pope is not tied to the person that the office. are resigning he is doing something really innovative. by reciting h
here s don we have an update on the breaking news we brought you from college park campus. prince george s police have ruled the death a murder/suicide. it happened in college park college park student shot and killed a roommate and shot another, who is being treated at the hospital and then took his own life. stay with wjz and cbs baltimore. com for the latest information on this throughout the day. now, the story we brought you as breaking news yesterday, the resignation of pope benedict xvi. this morning, catholics around the world and here in baltimore are reacting to the announcement that seemed to up can out of nowhere. mike is live with the latest this morning. good morning, mike. reporter: good morning, don, good morning, everybody he has been pope for seven years he did what he said he was going to do, which is if he couldn t carry on job duties any more, he would resign. a revelation that stunned catholics worldwide. pope benedict xvi is resigning. no grou
casual relationship. charter was able to get in the house, beat the 32-year-old city social worker jennifer conyers in the head, before bounding her with electrical cords and speaker wire. police say charter dragged her to the basement and lit her house on fire. i don t know what else to call him but an animal behind bars for an egregious murder of someone who dedicated her life to helping others. reporter: police say carter also stole connors atm card and her car to fuel a drug binge and get around. he was interviewed and arrested. he was covered in blood during the questioning. when asked about the murder of miss connors, he declined to comment requested counsel. reporter: which he will need, as he s charged with first and second degree murder been arson, false imprisonment, malicious burning, and rob by. it remain unclear whether connors died because of her injuries or the fire suspect. police the fire itself. another suspect is being searched air as the inves
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
The Examiner
If the downtime from pandemic led to a great period of inspiring new creative works from those who make a living in the fine arts – writing, composing, drawing – for Independence’s Dana Mengel it wasn’t terribly different.
“I have not needed to change at all; I always compose as I had,” says Mengel, a prolific composer and longtime violin virtuoso. “I write what I hear when I compose. When I finish a piece, I go to the next piece.”
Mengel has more than 1,000 sacred choral pieces to his name since 1990, and then over the past decade shifted his focus to string orchestrations. Thursday evening marks a virtual premier of a piece of that takes the latter and somewhat revisits the prior concentration.