Art classes can be an important part of seniors maintaining their cognitive ability as well as a terrific way of socializing.

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 14 urged his brother bishops gathered in Baltimore and all the Catholic faithful to “continue to pray” when “peace seems so far away” in today’s world.

The potential saints in question include one with ties to Baltimore, Mother Mary Lange, who has the title “venerable,” the founder of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, the world’s first sustained religious community for Black women.

The saints teach a vital lesson – “that in every circumstance, Jesus is there with us, ready to transform and illuminate our lives with his glory,” Meg Hunter-Kilmer said in a Nov. 11 keynote address at the 2023 Maryland Catholic Women’s Conference.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led his brother bishops in prayer for wisdom as they began their fall plenary assembly in Baltimore Nov. 13 with a Mass for peace.

Wayman Scott IV, a parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Timonium, talks with George Matysek Jr. about his development as a Black Catholic artist.

The most common types of injuries among pickleball players are rare sprains, strains and fractures and account for 60 percent of all pickleball-related injuries, according to a UBS study.

Brother Rodney served as a religion teacher at Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington from 1967 to 1970. He was acting principal at Mount St. Joseph for the 1988-89 academic year. He held a bachelor’s degree from the University Of Detroit and master’s degrees from St. John’s University and Bowie State University.

The Aquinas Institute of Theology has named St. Louis Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, a Baltimore native and former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, as one of two recipients of its 29th Annual Great Preacher Award. Dominican Father Paul Whittington of St. Katharine Drexel in Chicago was the other honoree.

The bones of St. Justin, a martyr of the early 300s, are buried in a Redemptorist cemetery at St. Mary in Annapolis.