Robert D. Kelly, vice president and special assistant to the president at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, has been named president of the University of Portland, a Catholic university in Oregon.

Sisters of Bon Secours were among the hundreds of people who braved a steady rain as they gathered under a tent the afternoon of April 26 to dedicate the $6.8 million Bon Secours Community Resource Center in West Baltimore.

Bernie Antkowiak, a musician, song writer, husband and father of 7, shares stories of faith and how the message of Divine Mercy entered his life. He became a promoter of Divine Mercy, including promoting the chaplet through music. He is a parishioner of St. Isaac Jogues in Carney.

Deacon Rodrigue Mortel, who as director of the Missions Office for the Archdiocese of Baltimore inspired dozens of parishes in the archdiocese to support sister churches in his homeland of Haiti and led hundreds of Catholic high-schoolers on summer missions there, died April 22 at his home in Hershey, Pa.

A funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Kathleen Mary Winkelman will be offered April 25 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa.

Baltimore-area schools are doing their best, though, to transform the landscapes and practices on campuses to find ways to embrace Pope Francis’ leadership for a seven-year journey toward “Integral Ecology” that he announced in his encyclical letter “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.”

Archbishop William E. Lori will celebrate a special 5 p.m. Mass May 7 at St. Peter the Apostle in Libertytown for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, observed May 7-8.

Father Gerard James Steffener died April 13 at BridgingLife Dove House in Westminster. He was 91.

As we celebrate Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus, Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Myra Kahn Adams, a Shroud of Turin devotee who helped bring a temporary exhibit about it to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Adams talks about the Shroud’s history and the scientific studies into it – and whether we need “proof” of the Resurrection via a piece of cloth in order to believe in the risen Savior.

After a period of instruction in the faith and guided by Kathy Schmitt, pastoral administrator at Oak Crest, Kenneth Davis was received into the Catholic Church earlier this year, receiving his first Communion Feb. 26 at the senior facility’s chapel.