Mount Carmel officials participated Nov. 7 in a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation Youth Development Park at Essex’s Fields at Renaissance Park that is expected to be ready for use in fall 2023.

An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Helen Mary Reynolds will be offered Nov. 16 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Helen Mary died Nov. 7.

To kick off Black Catholic History Month, the Archdiocese of Baltimore unveiled a display of six Black sainthood candidates in its lobby at the Catholic Center in Baltimore Nov. 7.

Eight priests serving the Archdiocese of Baltimore were honored for their many years of priestly ministry during a special Nov. 7 Mass and reception at St. Joseph in Fullerton.

The All Saints Sisters of the Poor have carried out a wide array of surprisingly diverse ministries over the course of their 150 years in Baltimore.

Vestments once worn by a beloved deacon of St. Rita in Dundalk over five decades of ministry have been gifted to a new generation of deacons at the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier in Hunt Valley.

According to Johns Hopkins researchers, there are more than 1.2 million Marylanders who are deaf or hard of hearing. What is the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Baltimore doing to reach that community?

The fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will find the bishops voting on a new president and vice president and how to proceed in disseminating their quadrennial document on Catholic participation in public life.

More than 400 parish leaders from the archdiocese attended Pastoral Staff Day hosted by the archdiocese’s Institute for Evangelization at Church of the Nativity in Timonium Oct. 27.

Among the subtly lit arches of the undercroft of the historic downtown Baltimore basilica, about three dozen people gathered Oct. 24 for a votive Mass of Mary, the Mother of the Church, to celebrate new “Custodians of America’s First Catholic Cathedral.”