The Catholic Review picked up 32 awards combined from the Associated Church Press, the Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada, and the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association.

While Seton Keough has closed, Benton, Graves and Dambita – as well as their classmates and underclassmen – will keep the school’s spirit alive.

As a priest, Monsignor Bastress was in fact enlisted to act “in persona Christi” – in the person of Christ – throughout various aspects of his ministry.

Five years in as the 16th shepherd of the first diocese in the United States, it seems like Archbishop Lori is just getting started.

“People really want to be challenged to be better than even they think they can be,” Father Matthew Buening said.

“Some focus on a specific issue, Father Bialek said of Father Mike Orchik. “He wants to help all people, regardless of their situation.”

A government can’t make its citizens virtuous by bribing them or threatening them with punishment.

If one of the features the Review publishes in the coming year moves you or your neighbor to give even more, it will fulfill its purpose.

Praying with young children doesn’t have to be intimidating. There are moments throughout the day that can be turned into opportunities to teach little ones about God.

Through all of this change, the message of the church remains the same: Jesus Christ – yesterday, today and forever, as St. John Paul II reminded us.