I. Introduction The Gospel just proclaimed is tailor-made for this occasion, when, during the Year of Faith, the family of the Knights of Columbus comes on pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the “Knights Tower” with its 56 bell carillon. This is what...Read More

The head of one of the largest retail banking companies in the world sat down with Baltimore’s archbishop for a wide-ranging discussion on urban education April 26 at the Center Club in downtown Baltimore.Read More

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Words are not enough to comfort grieving parents, said a priest who spent time with the parents of several of the slain Virginia Tech students when they first learned their son or daughter was dead. In the early hours after the murder rampage on campus that left 33 dead, Father James Arsenault,...Read More

What St. Patrick in Little Orleans lacks in numbers, it makes up for in the enthusiasm and close bonds of its people. It’s a tradition that stretches back 150 years when Irish immigrants first erected the little church as their spiritual home in eastern Allegany County.Read More

This installment of Names & Numbers is dedicated to recently released books that have a link to the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More

Getting trapped for three days and four nights in a cramped 5-by-4 elevator is not most people’s idea of an opportunity for spiritual renewal. Then again, most people aren’t like Sister Margaret Geary.Read More

Pope Francis will preside over a consistory to approve the canonization of five men and women, including Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, the Vatican announced.Read More

Sister Margaret Maureen taught at six schools inside and around the Baltimore Beltway.Read More