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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.

I am writing in reference to your photo on page 3 of the Oct. 11 issue. To see a mom and her daughter standing at the begining of an outside mass is excellent. To see them standing on the American Flag (even if a blanket) is disrespectful. Shame on them, but more importantly, shame of the Review for publishing this disrespectful picture.

I just saw the photograph on page 3 of the Oct. 11 edition of The Catholic Review. How can anyone attending such a spiritual event as the Mass on the Grass show such disrespect for our national symbol? The American flag is not even supposed to be on the ground, let alone stood upon. Shame!

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate the 49th annual Red Mass Oct. 25 at 5:30 p.m. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. The Mass will be preceded by an interfaith service and will be followed by a reception at the Engineers’ Club of Baltimore.

Catholic colleges and universities must team up with foundations to help strengthen Catholic elementary schools and high schools, especially by identifying trends and helping schools respond to them, a leading foundation official said.