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Date night helps couples keep spark alive

Erica and Sean Kerchner find it hard to spend quality time together at the moment. Mr. Kerchner has been training with the U.S. Navy in Norfolk, Va., for four months while his wife of three years stays with her parents in Silver Spring. Mrs. Kerchner said when her husband visits on the weekends, it is...

Baltimore priest brought prayer to Ground Zero after attack

Father Leo Patalinghug was all set to make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, beginning Sept. 13, 2001, when the terrorist attacks of two days earlier abruptly ended his plans. International flights were canceled as the world fixed its attention on New York and Washington.

Archdiocesan youths lock in to their calling at “Adore-a-thon”

GLEN BURNIE – After a week of classroom stress and social angst, many high schoolers use Friday nights to blow off steam at parties.

Bishop Madden, priests from Baltimore visit college in West Bank

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The newest building at Bethlehem University, completed in the year 2000 and appropriately called the Millennium Building, was struck by shells fired by the Israelis. Other parts of the campus were hit as well.

Gibbons’ final graduation class ‘brothers’ for life

As 65 young men took their seats in the front pews of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary May 29, they were filled with the thoughts many high school seniors have on their graduation day.

IND alum’s work in Haiti inspires family, friends

K.C. Bersch first visited Haiti in 1997, when she was a student at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore. She accompanied her mother on a mission of mercy rooted in their family’s long-distance support of a child there.

Archbishop O’Brien welcomes 10 Episcopal nuns, priest into Catholic Church

A spiritual journey that began seven years ago ended in the sanctuary of a Catonsville convent Sept. 3 when 10 Episcopal nuns and their priest chaplain were received into full communion with the Catholic Church.

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Father Martin, leader in addiction treatment, dies

Sulpician Father Joseph C. Martin, a leader in the addiction treatment field who cofounded the Father Martin’s Ashley treatment center, died March 9. He was 84.

A tale of two counties in Anne Arundel

In mostly affluent Anne Arundel County, huge pockets of poverty persist. The divide formed the backdrop for an Oct. 27 town hall meeting at St. Bernadette, Severn, where a Johns Hopkins researcher presented stark contrasts between the haves and the have-nots.

Ground broken for Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden

For someone who relished the great outdoors, the late Pope John Paul II would certainly be pleased with the outdoor prayer garden that is being carved out of the corner of Charles and Franklin streets in downtown Baltimore.

Murdered daughter’s mother says death penalty must go

When police arrested the serial rapist who brutally assaulted and murdered Shannon Schieber in 1998, the Schieber family faced unrelenting pressure to seek the death penalty.