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VATICAN CITY – Amid an occasional chorus of moo, oink, baa and neigh, Cardinal Angelo Comastri blessed several dozen animals peacefully munching their lunch in St. Peter’s Square.

Bernard W. “Bernie” Warthen, 63, died Jan. 9 of undetermined causes. Mr. Warthen was the business manager for Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville, a position he had held for more than two decades. His wife, Mary Jo Warthen, is the principal of Holy Family School, Randallstown, and a former principal at Holy Rosary School, Baltimore.

A funeral Mass was offered for Father Wolfgang Bruno Mimms, O.SS.T., on Jan. 3 at Holy Trinity Monastery in Pikesville. Father Mimms died on Jan. 2 after a lengthy illness. He was 82.

St. Mary, Annapolis, is in the final stages of selecting a consultant to perform an internal communication audit. Much like a financial audit that examines fiscal practices, the communication audit will look at the ways in which people communicate.

Single people are often on the go, but that doesn’t mean their diets have to suffer. There are ways of taking time-saving shortcuts at the grocery store that won’t sacrifice nutrition or stretch the waistline, according to Barbara Bailey, outpatient dietician for the Good Health Center at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore.

Eddie Glaude, professor of religion and African-American studies at Princeton University, will deliver the keynote address at Loyola College in Maryland’s 15th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on Jan. 17.

Eddie Glaude, professor of religion and African-American studies at Princeton University, will deliver the keynote address at Loyola College in Maryland’s 15th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on Jan. 17.

The chili powder container is upside down and shakin’ at the Tracy household in Abingdon. Kendall Tracy, 26, has been adding the spice to mostly everything she cooks and eats lately.