The holiday season is over and millions of students and educators across the country have returned to school.   Students and educators from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. returned to school today, 20 days after a shooting which killed 26 people. Students and staff went to a different schoolRead More

Welcome to the New Year! Welcome to 2013! We’ve made it through a whopper of a year in 2012. Major weather storms, tragedies beyond comprehension, life-changing elections, and a pending Mayan Apocalypse all made their mark last year, but that’s in the past. As 2012 came to an end, many of youRead More

St. Frances Academy registered a 58-57 victory over No. 2 Mount St. Joseph Jan. 2.Read More

  It was just an ordinary Sunday in January. It was also the Feast of the Epiphany. And there was a big Ravens game that day. John and I went to a late Mass and then headed to the grocery store. Everyone else was watching the Ravens-Dolphins game, so we had aRead More

When I saw the article in the Catholic Review announcing Therese Wilson-Favors’ retirement, it brought wonderful memories for me.Read More

Three eighth-graders from St. Joseph School in Cockeysville were recently recognized by the Timonium Optimist Club.Read More

Marion Townsley, 75, has been the parish historian for 30 years.Read More

  Last year at this time I was writing my first entries for Open Window, although the blog didn’t actually launch on The Catholic Review’s site until March. So, as the year ends, I thought it might be fun to see which posts received the greatest number of hits. If you askedRead More