A funeral Mass for Helen Keeler, sister of Cardinal William H. Keeler, was offered July 4 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Toronto. Ms. Keeler died June 28 of cancer. She was 60.Read More

Pounded by the worst economy in decades, the Archdiocese of Baltimore suffered a $34.3 million deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. The figure was released in an archdiocesan financial report provided to The Catholic Review and available on pages 12-13 of the March 18 issue.Read More

VATICAN CITY – A greater presence of women in decision-making roles in the church might have helped remove the “veil of masculine secrecy” that covered priestly sex abuse cases, a front-page commentary in the Vatican newspaper said.Read More

UPDATED Following his June 25 release from The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Cardinal William H. Keeler is back at his downtown residence and will undergo outpatient rehabilitation at Mercy Medical Center, according to archdiocesan spokesman Sean Caine. Although the cardinal’s seven-day hospital stay following a June 18 surgery to drain an accumulation of cerebrospinal...Read More

This is the first summer in four years that language arts teacher Marilyn Donahue can concentrate better on two things – schoolwork and relaxation. The 14-year veteran of St. John the Evangelist School, Hydes, soon will head to Ocean City, where she can take pleasure in her newly renovated beach house. The past four summers...Read More

When Monsignor Robert L. Hartnett was appointed executive director of schools planning for the Archdiocese of Baltimore in early 2009, the task was unenviable: head a team that would develop recommendations concerning school consolidations.Read More

As the Cold War raged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, 1,000 nuns packed secret messages into tubes of toothpaste and bits of candy – smuggling the reports of human rights abuses and church persecution out of Communist-dominated Lithuania.Read More

WASHINGTON – After Polish-born poet, author and Holocaust survivor Lena Allen-Shore had her first private meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1996, her younger son, Jacques, told her, “You have to write an article. The title of the article should be ‘Building Bridges.’“Read More