The Archdiocese of Baltimore honored the three top-performing graduating seniors from each of the 18 Catholic high schools of the archdiocese during the 31st annual Distinctive Scholars Convocation, March 30 at Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn.

A priest walking into a bar is no joke at Bill’s Place, a remote, log-cabin hangout right in the heart of Western Maryland’s 49,000-acre Green Ridge State Forest.

John and Tracy Sullivan are the parents of Russ Sullivan, a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Baltimore preparing for the priesthood at St. Mary’s Seminary in Roland Park. The Sullivans, parishioners of St. John the Evangelist in Severna Park, share their experience of having a son in the seminary and offer some advice to other parents whose children are interested in the priesthood or religious life.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Grief Ministry is working to help the families affected by the July 2 mass shooting in the South Baltimore community of Brooklyn that claimed the lives of 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi and 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez. Twenty-eight others were injured in the shooting, which happened during a block party.

Taking its name from the two companion ships that brought English Catholic settlers to Maryland in 1634, the four-episode podcast features interviews with clergy and subject-matter experts as it examines the roles and experiences of Black Catholics in the church, and America as a whole.

Five Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are establishing new endowed scholarships thanks to a $250,000 donation from the Knights of Columbus Notre Dame Council 2901.

During July and August, the Catholic Review’s award-winning enewsletter will be published once a week. We will return to our twice-weekly schedule in September.

A group of seniors at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore has completed a project that just might make Elon Musk jealous.

Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with Daughter of St. Paul Sister Rose Pacatte about digital literacy and what she calles “media mindfulness” – consuming media in a thoughtful way that looks at not only what you read and see, but who creates it and who benefits from it.

Following a mass shooting in which two were killed and 28 injured at a block party July 2 in the South Baltimore community of Brooklyn, Archbishop William E. Lori asked for prayers for the victims and the city.