Archbishop William E. Lori presented Pope Francis with a special gift Dec. 17, and it couldn’t have been at a more opportune time.

The agreement is expected to generate “approximately 20 percent of the archdiocese’s energy needs.”

Archbishop John Carroll is reposed in the crypt of the Baltimore Basilica (Photos by Patti Murphy Dohn)This past Sunday—December 6, 2015—the Archdiocese of Baltimore honored the legacy of Archbishop John Carroll, America’s first bishop, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on

In emphasizing mercy as the central duty of the church, the pope is affecting the way church leaders and people in the pews are thinking about family life.

Pope Francis chose Dec. 8 as the beginning not only of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, but as the date for the inauguration of changes in the church’s annulment process.

Gov. Lawrence Hogan Jr. and Comptroller Peter Franchot volunteered at Our Daily Bread in Baltimore Nov. 24.

Halfway to Pope Francis and the Mass he will celebrate in Philadelphia Sept. 27, in a pilgrimage sponsored by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Catholic Review Media, we have encountered one blessing after another.

According to Father Seitz, the pope’s changes to the annulment process will make the process more available and faster for certain parishioners.

In a final sendoff marked with heartfelt displays of raw emotion, hundreds of people said goodbye to Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano.

Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano, basilica rector and a man described by Archbishop Lori as a priest of “tremendous pastoral love,” died Sept. 5.