Parishes across the Archdiocese of Baltimore will celebrate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, with special blessings for family pets the weekend of Oct 4-5.

Karin Abbott’s creativity, passion and resourcefulness come in handy as she faces a series of educational challenges unique to our time.

Trinitarian Father Stan De Boe recalls meeting a relentless anti-Communist bishop in China who suffered four decades of political imprisonment.

St. Ambrose in Park Heights will mark 30 years under the guidance of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars Oct. 3, the same day as an unusual Preakness Stakes.

As early voting begins in some states for the coming presidential election, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori is urging his parishioners to be guided by the principles of Catholic social teaching as they complete their ballots.

For the second time in eight years and the third time since the program began in 1982, Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson was named a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.

Several Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are experiencing an enrollment boom during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sister Eileen Walsh, who taught for several years at Archdiocese of Baltimore Catholic schools in the early 1960s and 1970s, died Sept. 20 at the Assisi House in Aston, Pa. The Sister of St. Francis of Philadelphia was 84.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic that curtailed programs supporting those considering the call to religious life, 12 men have begun their first year of formation to become priests for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

School Sister of Notre Dame Rosemary T. Dilli, a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 69 years and a former Catholic school educator, died at Villa Assumpta in Baltimore Sept. 9. She was 89