After three months of virtual classes in spring 2020, and a 2020-21 year that included hybrid learning, schools welcomed children for regular school hours that will continue five days a week.

The resumption of all in-classroom instruction comes as enrollment has increased approximately 6 to 7 percent from last year.

Acts of terror are an attack against all of us and have no place in a civilized or just society.

Two leaders who helped the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Catholic schools navigate the pandemic were honored with the Doris Musil Award, the highest honor the Catholic school system bestows each year.

Raised in St. Mark Parish in Catonsville and a graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School, Sprankle led youth ministry at St. Mary in Annapolis for 10 years, and has done the same for St. Louis in Clarksville the last 26.

Father Brian Nolan talks with Daughter of Charity Sister Liz Sjoberg about a calling that has brought her to Pasadena, MD, Mount St. Mary’s University, and currently at the front lines serving the poor at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop William E. Lori is encouraging parishes to designate poor box collections or second collections to benefit earthquake victims. Funds collected will go to Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services.

The Jesuit footprint on local education expanded Aug. 19, with the announcement that the Loyola Early Learning Center, an initiative of St. Ignatius Parish in Baltimore and the Jesuit USA East Province, will open a kindergarten in September, with plans to grow into a PreK-Grade 4 school serving low-income children.

Eight organizations in the Archdiocese of Baltimore received national and local awards from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development Aug. 12, during a luncheon at St. Francis of Assisi in the Mayfield section of the city.

Buck, whose religious name is Mother Mary Paschal of the Lamb of God, was elected abbess in late July, taking on the same post that was once held by Mother Angelica.