More than 10,000 registrants and exhibitors will attend the 104th annual National Catholic Educational Association convention in Baltimore April 10-13. “This is an opportunity for educators from across the country to exchange ideas,” said Dr. Michael Murphy, president of Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn, whose students will be performing at the Celebration of the Arts...Read More

Lacey Shuman soars where few girls in Maryland have ever gone.Read More

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has learned of three allegations of sexual misconduct against Father John Wielebski, 62, pastor at Resurrection of Our Lord Church in Laurel. All of the allegations are related to acts which allegedly occurred in the mid-late 1980s while he was serving at St. Dominic Church, Baltimore, and the Monsignor Clare J....Read More

Let’s look at a new phenomenon you may know very little about. It is the remarkable rise of eucharistic adoration in Catholic parishes and institutions in every part of the world. Why is it happening? And what is it? “The Catholic Church,” says the Catechism, “offers to the … Eucharist… adoration, not only during Mass,...Read More

Philip J. Forte will step down at the end of the current school year as principal of The Cardinal Gibbons School in Baltimore to take on the newly created position of director of Lasallian mission. The school has begun a search for a new principal. Brother Kevin Strong, F.S.C., president of the all-boys middle and...Read More

Inviting Catholics to support health care reform, Tony Magliano (CR, Dec. 10) correctly invoked the principle of subsidiarity.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, archbishop of Baltimore, announced Dec. 30 that Pope Benedict XVI has conferred the honorary title of Monsignor on the following nine priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore:Read More

WASHINGTON – In a new directory the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate has identified 165 U.S. Catholic communities of consecrated life that have sprung up since 1965. A little more than half of the 152 communities that provided membership information by gender admit only women, CARA said, while 24 percent admit only men...Read More