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For 20 million people, conflict added to drought means no food to eat

August 17, 2017

Conflict and drought are threatening more than 20 million people in four countries with the prospect of famine, and the U.N. has called this food crisis the largest humanitarian crisis since the world body was formed more than 70 years ago.

Catholic schools join national focus on early childhood

Erik Zygmont

August 17, 2017

Local News, News, Schools, Schools Feature

As the school year begins, institutions in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are focusing on a new demographic – preschoolers.

The mysterious church on the edge of the world

Bishop Robert Barron

August 17, 2017

Blog, Word on Fire

I have discovered now through direct experience, though I had certainly sensed it through photographs, that it is practically impossible to gaze at Mont Saint-Michel without falling into mystical reverie.

Stepping into the ocean and our beach vacation

Rita Buettner

August 17, 2017

Blog, Open Window

The beach is a place full of wonder. The ocean is magnificent, powerful, and moving with a rhythm all its own.

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Opening Mass of the Holy Spirit; Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary

Archbishop William E. Lori

August 17, 2017

Archbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

As you recall, that reading pertains to the last leg of the Israelites’ journey out of Egypt, through the desert, and into the promised land, that land flowing with milk and honey. We see how once again God parted the waters so that the Ark of the Covenant, borne by the priests, could precede the people as they entered that land God swore he would give to Abraham’s descendants.

The Northern Lights, albeit seen over Greenland, in a photo from Pexels.

Look, up in the sky, it’s an eclipse

Paul McMullen

August 16, 2017

Baltimore Boomer, Blog

Whatever happens, darkness at the break of 2:48 p.m. Aug. 21 is going to be another grand moment with creation.

Sister M. Evelyn Howard, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary died Aug. 13.

Sister M. Evelyn Howard, IHM, Catonsville teacher, dies at 89

Catholic Review Staff

August 16, 2017

Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Obituaries

Sister M. Evelyn Howard taught at St. Agnes School in Catonsville from 1984 to 1991.

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Fertile ground

Archbishop William E. Lori

August 15, 2017

Charity in Truth, From the Archbishop

And what fruit can we expect once the seed of God’s Word is planted in the fertile soil of our hearts? None other than the fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

A crew member films a scene for the Catholic Relief Services' short docudrama "Changing the Way We Care" June 8 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. CRS released the video Aug. 10 to help educate the public about the struggles families in poor countries go through when making the decision to place one of their children in an orphanage. (CNS photo/Jim Stipe, courtesy Catholic Relief Services)

Catholic Relief Services looks to change concept of world’s orphanages

Chaz Muth

August 15, 2017

News, Video, World News

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services has released an emotion-filled video as a way of starting a conversation about the world’s orphanages.

Bishop Denis J. Madden leads a prayer walk through the streets of Baltimore in 2012. (CR file)

Join a Baltimore prayer walk for peace

Archdiocese of Baltimore

August 15, 2017

Black Catholic Ministry, News, Uncategorized, Urban Vicariate

Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar and auxiliary bishop emeritus of Baltimore, will lead a prayer walk for peace Aug. 30 at St. Ambrose, 4502 Park Heights Ave. in Park Heights.

Archbishop William E. Lori offers the invocation at the Aug. 14 meeting of the Baltimore City Council at City Hall. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

After Charlottesville, Archbishop Lori prays for justice and peace before Baltimore City Council

Erik Zygmont

August 15, 2017

Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice, Urban Vicariate, Video

“Give us the courage to excise from our midst anger, violence, hatred and bigotry, and the underlying sin of racism that is still so prevalent in our midst,” Archbishop Lori prayed.