After two years of COVID-related online-only meeting, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s annual Social Ministry Convocation returned to an in-person gathering at Mercy High School Feb. 25, with 275 attendees.

Cockeysville-based Timber Industries, owned by Annette Walker, is a multi-­million-dollar company that relies on a network of 1,800 mills across the country for manufacturing pallets and other products for Fortune 500 companies.

Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory led a ceremony at Sacred Heart Parish in Bowie, which was titled a “Prayer Service to Bless a Portion of the Parish Cemetery for African-Americans Buried There,” and was attended by members of the parish and community, as well as descendants of the area’s enslaved.

This year, the church is implementing a new Order of Penance, including new prayers for the Act of Contrition and the priest’s prayer of absolution.

Peter Laake, a 17-year-old junior at Loyola Blakefield, thanks God he’s alive. He’s using his near-death experience to raise awareness of the importance of having AEDs on athletic fields.

Scott Kuhlman is a 2010 Loyola Blakefield graduate and the CEO of Heart To Beat, an Owings Mills-based safety training and consulting firm that helps organizations prepare and protect their student-athletes.

Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Robert Taylor Jr. ruled Feb. 24 that a redacted version of the Maryland Attorney General Office’s report on child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore must be released publicly.

A funeral Mass for Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Marian Katherine Schaechtel was offered Jan. 27 at Mount Notre Dame Health Center Chapel in Reading, Ohio. Sister Marian died Jan. 21. She was 85.

Mount St. Mary’s initiated the public phase of a $50 million capital campaign in February. “Our Mission, Our Moment, Our Mount” was launched privately in June 2021 and has already raised $24 million of its goal.

As part of a multiyear project to better render the Mass and other liturgical rites into English from Latin, a slight change in the prayer of absolution will be made.