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.

Matthew Sennett, a parishioner of St. Margaret in Bel Air, chose a much less glamorous, but meaningful path for his proposal. He proposed to girlfriend, Bethany Smith, during her Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults class at their Harford County parish.

A demonstration of Christian love was on display in Cumberland April 15 as an ecumenical Good Friday procession wound its way through a part of the city known as “Holy Hill.”

The Maryland Catholic Conference, Annapolis-based public-policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, worked diligently throughout Maryland’s recently completed 444th legislative session to push its support for a variety of bills and also try to help defeat a bill that will expand abortion in the state.

Although St. Brigid’s church in Canton has been demolished to make way for a new townhouse development in the Canton neighborhood, the rectory remains, ready for repurpose, and religious items – from the altar to the statues – have been transferred to other churches around the archdiocese and beyond.

After more than two decades as a volunteer caretaker of the grounds at New All Saints in Liberty Heights, Mildred Proctor has hung up her gardening hat.