When Deacon Ray Van Pelt announced at the end of Mass at St. Joan of Arc in Aberdeen that the church was looking for altar servers, Collin whispered to me, “I want to do that!” Collin has been attending Mass weekly (barring the occasional snow storm or stomach bug) since he was 5 days old....Read More

The Catholic Review Difficult it would be to view a more buoyant, life-affirming series of life-size photos adorning a local store window. Smiling babies embraced by grandparents or chuckling invitingly to passersby–it takes up almost half a block on Howard Street in our city–and it is an abortion factory run by Planned Parenthood. What deception!...Read More

WASHINGTON – Concerns that religious liberty is being eroded by government action and policymaking prompted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to open a campaign in 2011 to head off what they consider dangers to the rights of people of faith and conscience.Read More

Maryknoll Sister Helen Scheel, a Baltimore native who taught in the western United States and returned to her hometown to work for a third world advocacy project, died Jan. 4 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.YRead More

“Whenever you feel down or if you feel like you don’t have anyone, you always have God,” said Melanie Cabo, a student at St. Frances Academy in Baltimore. “He’s there for you.”Read More

Editor’s note: The following is adapted from a blog maintained by Evan Zimmer, a rising junior at Calvert Hall College High School and student photo intern for The Catholic Review.Read More

We share in joy of praying where a saint prayed and of walking where a saint walked.Read More

School communities around the Archdiocese of Baltimore have been moved to act in the wake of the devastating Haitian earthquake.Read More