Although the economic picture is improving, Kathy Smith plans to continue St. Joseph’s Ministry to help Sacred Heart in Glyndon parishioners advance in their careers, particularly, people in low-wage jobs who want to move into other roles.

A funeral Mass for Mercy Sister Mary Kenneth McGuire was offered March 9 at Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Mount Washington. Sister Kenneth died March 9 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. She was 93 and had been a Sister of Mercy for 69 years.

Father Steven Roth, vocations director for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, talks with Father Matt Himes about his journey to the priesthood and his work in discernment. Father Himes is the associate pastor Our Lady of the Fields in Millersville and the newly appointed associate vocations director who will be focusing especially on helping young men discern the call to religious life.

The voices of young singers filled the chambers of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore with sacred songs.

The Loyola School, a Jesuit all-scholarship preschool and elementary school in Baltimore, will receive Loyola University Maryland’s 2022 Milch Community Partnership Award in recognition of its service to city families.

Leading a retreat is just one component of the work done by the Office of Parish Renewal and its Emmaus Teams, which are designed to support parishes and their staff with a wide variety of resources.

A team of workers from Loeblein Memorials in Dundalk spent part of March 7 restoring 49 vandalized monuments at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church Cemetery in Dundalk. The monuments were knocked over Feb. 23, the same week Russia invaded Ukraine.

Margaret Brogden, a former Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart who was a champion of youth ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died of cardiac arrest March 4. She was 57.

“No Limits,” a book about Calvert Hall basketball, was received so well that Mark Amatucci and his co-authors decided to enter uncharted territory by making a documentary film tackling the same subject matter.

After a two-year hiatus caused by the pandemic, the Baltimore St. Patrick Parade returns to the streets of Charm City this year with a grand marshal who has fittingly been in the trenches, working to stem the tide of COVID-19.