Along with the successful Source of All Hope ministry in place since 2019 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore City will soon have another new urban ministry: Gift of All Truth.

The Blue Mass, named for the color of uniforms worn by many first responders, recognizes law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics and both retired and active-duty public safety professionals.

Sixteen teams made up of 160 players competed in the daylong Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Sept. 16 Catholic Young Adult Kickball Tournament at St. Mary’s Seminary.

Following a hiatus of several years, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Liturgical Commission is back. The reboot, which took effect in May, is partially related to the U.S. bishops’ National Eucharistic Revival and the need for ongoing formation and teaching about the liturgy – especially the Eucharist, according to Monsignor Richard Hilgartner, pastor of St. Joseph in Cockeysville and a member of the commission.

Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. Catholic Church’s international relief and development agency, is assisting recovery efforts following a devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that has killed more than 2,900 people in Morocco and injured thousands, the group said.

In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Father Allen served for a year as an assistant chaplain at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore. He was chaplain at Good Samaritan from 1982 to 2000. He also served as superior of the Ferdinand Wheeler House in Baltimore for three years.

Montoya was named the Archdiocesan High School Teacher of the Year. She has been teaching chemistry at Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn for the past seven years, but her entire teaching career has been with the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

A capacity congregation filled St. John the Evangelist Church here Sept. 10 to mark not only the 260th anniversary of the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but to celebrate the blessing of newly installed stained-glass windows depicting scenes from Scripture.

After being shut down because of the pandemic, the biennial Dragon Boat Race and Festival, sponsored and hosted by Catholic Charities of Baltimore, were back in business for the first time since 2018.

The archdiocese is seeing increasing numbers of men applying to become priests. Joining us to talk about vocations to the priesthood is Father Steven Roth, vocations director for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.