Andrew Newton was jealous when his mom and dad tried on their graduation caps and gowns.

Andrew Newton was jealous when his mom and dad tried on their graduation caps and gowns.
Notre Dame Preparatory School senior Erin Workmeister, a member of the Towson school’s basketball team, was honored as one of two McCormick Unsung Heroes May 12 at The Marriott Hunt Valley Inn.

The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.

St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore’s Sarah’s Hope, a 24-hour shelter and resource center serving homeless families and single women, will no longer operate from the Eastern Family Resource Center in Rosedale, effective June 30.
Maryland Catholic schoolteachers and college students who wish to teach in the state’s Catholic schools are eligible to receive state scholarships to pursue careers in fields with a critical teacher shortage. The deadline to apply for the 2008-2009 academic year is July 1.
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court’s May 20 decision overturning Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion thwarts “the clear and common sense of our state’s citizens that a child who is almost entirely born should never be the victim of this brutal practice,” according to the executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference.
WASHINGTON – The commonwealth of Virginia ranks second to Texas when it comes to the number of executions carried out since 1976, the year the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty.

WASHINGTON – Two Catholic landmarks in New Orleans have been given much-needed cash to reinforce the structures and ensure that future generations have the opportunity to experience spiritual mysteries that might connect them to the past.

As Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien prepared to bless Catholic Charities’ Esperanza Center in Fells Point May 20, he described it as “one of the many jewels” he has inherited as Baltimore’s archbishop.

Father Terry Weik, S.M., counts her among the “most extraordinary” young people he’s ever met.
Dr. Mary Pat Seurkamp, president of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, received a Leader in Education Award from the YWCA of Greater Baltimore.

DENVER – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver is disputing the use of his words on a Web site run by the group Roman Catholics for Sen. Barack Obama ‘08 to justify support for a candidate who supports keeping abortion legal.
