People gathered May 29 at War Memorial Plaza in Baltimore to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the “holodomor,” or Ukrainian genocide of 1932-33. Father Vasyl Sivinskyi, pastor of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Baltimore, and Father Vasyl Kryshtompol, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest in Baltimore, lead a prayer service. A torch from Ukraine was used...Read More
Fourth-grader Michael Ehart, 9, of St. Margaret School, Bel Air, spelled his way to the top of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spelling Bee May 16, becoming the youngest student ever to win the contest.Read More
Fourth-grader Michael Ehart, 9, of St. Margaret School, Bel Air, spelled his way to the top of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spelling Bee May 16, becoming the youngest student ever to win the contest.Read More
Tell us about your heirlooms! The Catholic Review is looking to profile several parishioners for our 50 PLUS section who possess interesting heirlooms or antiques. E-mail a brief description of the item along with your contact information to ssingleton@catholicreview.org before July 14.Read More
Loyola College in Maryland took top honors for Maryland in the 2008 Mid-Atlantic RecycleMania competition, recycling more than 118,000 pounds of recycled waste to help bring the Mid-Atlantic region’s total to 7.7 million pounds.Read More
As The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, settled into second place in the IAAM track and field championship May 17 at Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, two Gator seniors bid farewell to an excellent high school career.Read More
VATICAN CITY – If aliens exist, they may be a different life form that does not need Christ’s redemption, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said.Read More
WORCESTER, Mass. – Assumption College in Worcester has received the largest donation in its 104-year history, a $4.2 million gift to support the school’s Catholic intellectual tradition.Read More
As The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, settled into second place in the IAAM track and field championship May 17 at Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, two Gator seniors bid farewell to an excellent high school career.Read More
The future of the Baltimore Archdiocesan Holy Name Union was among the topics discussed at the 97th annual archdiocesan convention May 18 at Our Lady of Fatima in Baltimore.Read More
VATICAN CITY – While bishops have an obligation to guide new lay movements and associations, they must take care not to suffocate them, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More