“I’m convinced that whenever we’re in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, blessings flow,” Archbishop Lori said.

Apprentice House Press, a student-run book publisher based at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, has contributed the proceeds from the sale of author Rob Hiaasen’s work, “Float Plan” and “Love Punch & Other Collected Columns,” to two nonprofit organizations promoting gun safety.

Bishop Lewandowski talks about the work of the Journey to Racial Justice coordinating council he chairs and also about archdiocesan preparations for the World Synod of Bishops to be held next October at the Vatican.

Archbishop William E. Lori’s weekly televised Mass from the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland is attracting just as many viewers as the number of people who tune in to catch an NFL football game that does not involve the hometown Ravens.

A funeral Mass was offered Oct. 1 for Daughter of Charity Sister Elizabeth Ann Tonroe at the Basilica of St. Elizabeth Seton in Emmitsburg. Sister Elizabeth Ann, a former teacher and principal of several schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Sept. 27. She was 94.

Tokarski loved butterflies, and was the force of nature behind the Monarch Butterfly Garden at St. Joan of Arc School in Aberdeen, where kids learn about botany, entomology and geography.

Fernando Cristancho, a former priest assigned to St. Ignatius, Hickory, in Forest Hill, pleaded guilty Oct. 4 to coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, according to an Oct. 5 news release from the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office. Cristancho met the victim through the parish. He also admitted that he produced nude images of four other minor victims.

Monsignor Charles Frederick Meisel, founding pastor of Church of the Nativity in Timonium and a mentor to upcoming priests, died Oct. 2 at Stella Maris. He was 96, and at the time of his death was the oldest living archdiocesan priest.

If you have an urn or vessel containing the remains of a loved one sitting on a shelf in your home, Father Patrick Carrion would like to help you put that to rest.

The special Mass brings together members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines and Public Health Services with family and friends to join in prayer to thank St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for her protection and ask for her continued intercession for the country, the safety of all those at sea and for those who have fallen while serving their country.