An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Oblate Sister of Providence Helene Therese Stanislaus will be offered Oct. 11 at the Oblate Sisters of Providence motherhouse in Arbutus. Sister Helene Therese died Sept. 30. She was 75.

Catherine Freymann, a student at Mount de Sales Academy, visited Krakow with Clare Rowedder, a friend from Virginia. The two were the only Americans in their group of seven missionaries and two consecrated women who served as guardians for the monthlong trip.

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori blessed and dedicated a new $4 million museum and visitor center at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg during a special Sept. 22 celebration recognizing the life and legacy of the first native-born American to be canonized.

A funeral Mass for Sulpician Father Michael L. Barré was offered Oct. 2 at Our Lady of the Angels in Catonsville. Father Barré died Sept. 25. He was 80.

Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked one-on-one with Archbishop William E. Lori about the impact of the archdiocese’s Chapter 11 reorganization and his goal to equitably compensate all victim-survivors, while continuing the mission of the church, parishes and ministries.

Baltimore’s archbishop prayed that “God’s comfort and healing reaches all who experienced injury and terror” in the shooting that took place the evening of Oct. 3 on the campus of Morgan State University in the city and left five people wounded.

Father John P. Cunningham, former pastor of St. Thomas More in Baltimore and St. Jane Frances de Chantal in Riviera Beach, is being remembered as a faithful priest whose insatiable intellectual curiosity gave him an encyclopedic knowledge of a wide range of subjects.

Following an Oct. 1 Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, Father Justin Gough held a blessing of the animals in honor of the upcoming feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals.

Christine McComas has devoted herself to keeping other children safe online as a tireless advocate for legislative solutions on the state and national level and an ambassador for compassion, civility and decency on social media, inspired by Grace, whose mother described

The Baltimore Catholic community showered its love on the Capuchin Franciscans Oct. 1 with a jubilant Mass at St. Ambrose in Park Heights honoring the 150th anniversary of the religious community’s establishment of the St. Augustine Province and nearly 150 years of ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.