Father A. Henry Kunkel III, the beloved longtime pastor of St. Mary in Pylesville who led his rural church with a “family-centered” approach, died Sept. 18 at WellSpan York Hospital in Pennsylvania. The native of Peru was 79 and had been battling a number of ailments, including skin and prostate cancer.

It’s been seven years since the death of Monsignor Arthur Valenzano, former rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a longtime pastor of St. John in Westminster. Father Brian Nolan and Paul Gallagher, director of faith formation at Sacred Heart in Glyndon, shares memories of an amazing priest.

Archbishop William Lori announced clergy changes for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

The Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies named Jesuit Father Francis X. Clooney as the inaugural Silber-Obrecht Lecturer at Loyola University Maryland.

After 127 years as primarily an all-women’s undergraduate college, change is on the way at Notre Dame of Maryland University.

Notre Dame of Maryland University officials held a wall-breaking ceremony Sept. 8 and then delivered a breakdown of their planned $9 million renovation of the college’s Knott Science Center.

Things to know about the canonization cause for Baltimore’s Mother Mary Lange.

Pregnancy Center North, a pro-life women’s resource center on York Road in North Baltimore, became a lifeline for Mylaika Stephenson.

Notre Dame of Maryland University announced Sept. 13 it will begin accepting male students to all of its undergraduate programs, changing to a coeducational model after more than 125 years of offering a traditional women’s college education.

Jesuit Father John W. O’Malley, whose perspectives and expertise on church history and the Second Vatican Council attracted audiences that included undergraduate students and well-educated theologians, died at the Jesuit community in Baltimore Sept. 11. He was 95.