Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that in order to help mothers and children thrive as a way to build peace, “we really have to think about the root causes of the violence and the poverty that we see all around us.”

Mercy gym renovations followed the installation of Mary Anne Heckwolf ’66 Field, the first field at a Baltimore-­area girls’ school with lighting for nighttime games and a digital scoreboard.

Auxiliary Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski of Baltimore recalled in a homily Jan. 28 the kind of greeting he would always receive from a Puerto Rican woman who was a member of the parish he pastored in Philadelphia’s Kensington section, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Joining the Catholic Review to talk about Catholic education and Catholic Schools Week in the Archdiocese of Baltimore is Dr. Donna Hargens, superintendent of Catholic schools for the archdiocese.

Archbishop Borders School is the only Spanish-immersion Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and one of the few dual-language schools in Baltimore.

A strong sense of community in Catholic schools across the Archdiocese of Baltimore is one of the major reasons many teachers choose to work in the Catholic school system.

Myah Hazelton and Olivia Liszt each scored 13 points, Milan Brown added 11 points and Mercy ran past Maryvale, 77-40, in “The Classic” Jan. 27 at Towson University’s SECU Arena in front of nearly 2,000 spectators.

Our Daily Bread Employment Center partnered with the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office to lead an effort to count every poverty-stricken person experiencing previously undocumented homelessness.

Gov. Wes Moore’s newly unveiled budget cuts $2 million from a state scholarship program that helps children from low-income families attend Catholic and other nonpublic schools in Maryland.

Catholics from the Archdiocese of Baltimore share their encounters with Pope Benedict XVI, a man one lay woman called a “wise, understanding, holy man.”