Catholic Campaign for Human Development awards $96,000 in Baltimore-area grants February 27, 2026By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice Four community organizations will expand access to health care, strengthen youth leadership, increase affordable housing options and improve neighborhood services in Baltimore thanks to $96,000 in grants from the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s chapter of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the official domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic bishops founded in 1970.
Calvert Hall esports teams score big, attaining gaming glory January 26, 2026By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: 2026 Catholic Schools Week, Feature, Local News, News, Schools In only its second year of competition, the esports program at Calvert Hall had rapidly become one of the school’s most popular clubs.
Mercy surgeons help residents get back on their feet at Helping Up Mission November 26, 2025By Kevin J. Parks Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, Local News, News Michael Brown was one of about 80 men receiving free foot evaluations and footwear at Helping Up Mission in Baltimore. With clippers in hand and cases of new socks and shoes ready for distribution, Mercy’s surgical team partnered with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Royal Farms for the 2025 effort.
Mercy High School freshman set to ask question of Pope Leo XIV November 18, 2025By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Mercy High School freshman Mia Smothers has been chosen to ask a question of Pope Leo XIV during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, a four-day gathering of 15,000 young Catholics from across the country, running Nov. 20-23.
Blue Ribbon flies high at St. Louis School in Clarksville November 6, 2025By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Students and faculty at St. Louis School in Clarksville burst into the school gym in waves Nov. 5, wearing blue spirit T-shirts, sunglasses and wielding pom-poms to celebrate the Howard County Catholic school’s designation as one of Maryland’s Blue Ribbon schools.
Turtley Awesome: Immaculate Conception School students learn from Aquarium partnership September 16, 2024By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Environment, Feature, Local News, News, Schools “Bubbles Cheeseball” was a baby diamondback terrapin raised by Cullen’s students as part of the National Aquarium in Baltimore’s Terrapins in the Classroom project, a three-year program through which students observe and collect data on the reptile’s weight and growth during the school year.
‘Beautiful witness that the church is alive’: Baltimore Catholics join tens of thousands in eucharistic procession July 21, 2024By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News More than 100 bishops and cardinals, including Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori and Baltimore Auxiliary Bishops Adam J. Parker and Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., marched in procession with thousands of other Catholics.
Young Baltimore pilgrims inspired at National Eucharistic Congress July 20, 2024By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News “The gift to God for me has been for me to abide in him,” said Sacay, a student at Community College of Baltimore County. “I can pay that forward by bringing other young people to abide in the Lord through adoration – and I was thinking and planning with my friends to begin adoration for young people in our local parish and really cultivate true and holy friendship where people can share their struggles and their challenges.”
Archdiocese of Baltimore Youth Bowl competitors run with bright spirit despite damp conditions May 6, 2024By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Sports Dozens of student athletes from area Catholic and independent elementary and middle schools participated in the 31st Youth Bowl May 4 at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore.
Catholic students make plunge to help support people with special needs March 5, 2024By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools The students were among an estimated 500 representatives of area Catholic schools who participated in the annual Maryland State Police Cool Schools Polar Bear Plunge benefitting the Maryland Special Olympics.
Quo Vadis Baltimore showcases path to vocations, fraternity July 19, 2023By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Fifty-one young men from across the region joined in a community of brotherhood July 10-13 at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore for a four-day overnight opportunity to allow Christ to be part of their lives through prayer, confession, adoration and talks about seminary and priestly life.
Fullerton Passion Walk a ‘deeply moving’ experience March 30, 2023By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News The “Passion Walk,” a series of 18 near-life-size dimensional sets depicting the final days in the life of Jesus, is not unlike what one might see at a theater production.
