How did a Baltimore boy get connected to Pope John Paul II, and how did he come to write “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II,” published in the fall of 1999, and “The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy.” Listen to George Weigel talk about his new book, “Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II,” on “Catholic Baltimore.

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.

If it’s good to dust off the cobwebs in our home, it’s even better to sweep clean your heart and soul.

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

Each year, we celebrate the most momentous week in all of history, a week filled with turmoil and triumph: Holy Week.

Now that the election is over, let’s agree to disagree and do it with civility and respect for others.

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.

Poland is Catholic – spiritually and culturally. The faith is woven into the lives and fortunes of the people.