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Bishop Denis J. Madden brought an Easter message of hope to the Helping Up Mission in Baltimore.

CATONSVILLE – In a first for two Archdiocese of Baltimore parishes that share a pastor, parishioners of St. Agnes in Catonsville and St. William of York in Ten Hills gathered March 17 in a Lenten project that packed 20,000 meals for the people of a small, poverty-stricken country of West Africa where hunger is widespread. […]

The funds will help to provide additional safety measures, capital improvements and scholarship assistance for students from low-income households or who have special needs. 

School Sister of Notre Dame Patricia McLaughlin is stepping down after 22 years of ministry at the Caroline Center in Baltimore.

The Maryland Catholic Conference announced March 28 that Jennifer Briemann will succeed Mary Ellen Russell as the conference’s new executive director in June.

April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose principles of nonviolence in the pursuit of civil rights inspired Archbishop William E. Lori’s most recent pastoral letter.

More than 24 gallons of oil were distributed to parishes and other Catholic institutions at the archdiocesan chrism Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland March 26.

It was Lent in 2012 when Laura Mattheiss heeded the call of the Holy Spirit to feed those in need.

The more deeply Veronica Balick probes cellular and molecular biology, the more firmly she believes in the existence of God.