Lena Vendetti Petrik’s instinct to care for others doesn’t stop when she finishes a shift at Mercy Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.


Lena Vendetti Petrik’s instinct to care for others doesn’t stop when she finishes a shift at Mercy Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

In the May 3 episode of “Catholic Baltimore,” Father Brian Nolan speaks with Caroline Rose Owens, host of the “She Believed” podcasts for women of faith.

Priests and doctors who gave their lives caring for the spiritual and physical well-being of others during the coronavirus pandemic are like Jesus, the good shepherd, who laid down his life for his flock, Pope Francis said.

Let me urge you again: make this time of plague and quarantine the occasion to dig the “Catholic paper” out of your records, find your baptismal certificate, and learn the date of your baptism. And then, with appropriate celebration, ponder just what happened to you that day.

Archbishop William E. Lori provides an update on plans for reopening parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Watch a livestream of Archbishop William E. Lori celebrating the May 3 Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Easter beginning at 11 a.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.

When I meet and speak with our seminarians, I often ask what inspired them to respond to God’s call to priesthood. Often, they tell me, they were inspired by their own parish priests.

Gov. Larry Hogan had declared Saturday Healthcare Heroes Day, and the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds would be flying over as a thank you to those serving on the front lines in the pandemic.

So Catholics, don’t get discouraged. Rather, use this time of deprivation and abstention to awaken a deeper love for the Church in its Eucharistic, symbiotic, and incarnational distinctiveness.
Masses for people who are blind: Xavier Society for the Blind continues to provide the Propers of the Sunday Mass (the readings, responses and prayers to the Mass on Sunday and special Feast Days) in large print, Braille Ready File (.brf), and audio for download from their website. – St. Francis Xavier Church in New […]

Some days you’re trying to get something done when you hear a terrible crash in the kitchen. You come running and see that your son just spilled sugar cubes all over the floor.

Since mid-March, the 51 men studying to become priests for the Archdiocese of Baltimore have left their classrooms and been placed in parishes across the region.
