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SAO PAULO, Brazil – A court in the Brazilian state of Para upheld the prison sentence of Rayfran das Neves Sales, who was convicted of killing U.S. Sister Dorothy Stang in Brazil in February 2005.

I agree that it is disrespectful to stand on a U.S. flag (CR, Oct. 11), but it was a throw blanket. There are no grommets on the blanket to raise it on a flagpole. I guess if I have a throw blanket with the image of the Sacred Heart, I’m not allowed to stand on that either? It was a blanket. Let it go.

During the past 40 years, the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Roland Park, has seen its enrollment more than quadruple and its current faculty represents several creeds.

The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians is holding a writing contest with cash prizes for both middle school and high school students. Public school, private school and home-schooled students in grades six, seven and eight are invited to write an essay between 500 and 1000 words on “Irish in the American Revolution.”

For the fourth consecutive year, Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville has been recognized by the Catholic High School Honor Roll as one of the “top 50” Catholic schools in the country – the only all-girls school in the nation to be included on the list four years in a row. For the third year, Mount de Sales Academy has been placed in the “Top 25” category for Catholic identity.

Information on applying for Knott elementary and secondary scholarships is now available. These are four-year, full-tuition scholarships awarded primarily on the basis of outstanding academic achievement. To apply, the student must be Catholic, in grade four or grade eight, and reside in and be a member of a Catholic parish in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, or Howard County.

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, an orthodox Jew and an authority on the historical Jesus, will give the annual Dunning Lecture at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park on Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington was one of four Maryland schools to receive $84,000 in grants from the Kensington-based Catholic Coalition for Special Education, Inc.