Father Brian Nolan speaks with Annie McHugh about the importance of practicing gratitude at all times.

A student of St. Francis of Assisi School in Baltimore was asked to remove a gay pride jersey featuring rainbow colors and “PRIDE 365” following a Nov. 19 school Mass held at the church.

Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Committee on Pro-life Activities, is urging the U.S. Congress to pass a conscience protection act that would protect health care workers who refuse to assist with abortion.

The archdiocese will participate for the first time in the international annual Giving Tuesday Nov. 30, raising funds for parishes through a digital platform titled #GiveCatholicAOB in collaboration with GiveCentral.

A funeral Mass for Redemptorist Father Ronald E. Bonneau was offered Nov. 18 at St. John Neumann in Annapolis.

The sun barely had peaked over the horizon, ending the darkness and bringing light into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, where two U.S. cardinals, six bishops and prominent leaders of various faiths clasped hands with a group of about 20 men and women Nov. 18, praying for an end to the “evil” that brought them together.

“The document is meant to be a resource,” Archbishop Lori said. “It’s meant to emphasize points of eucharistic doctrine and practice that may have been neglected over time – that needs, in our times, fresh emphasis.”

Sister Elizabeth Frances Scully, who ministered in education in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Nov. 14. She was 97

“Our responsibility as Catholics is to be a voice for the voiceless, the most vulnerable and those at the periphery of society,” Kraska said. “Those most likely to be harmed by this dangerous legislation are racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, the elderly and those with disabilities.”

Robert J. McAllister and Sylvia George have each lived more than a century full of faith, career success and family love. And both remain active today.