Summer break for students in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may end Aug. 25 when they return to classes, but not so discussions about how much homework they should be assigned. Some educators and parents contend that traditional homework is outdated or even detrimental while others argue that it is essential.

After serving for 20 years as head of school at Notre Dame Preparatory in Towson, Sister Patricia now takes the reins of the Department of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Baltimore as superintendent. 

The former site of St. Joseph’s Monastery School in Southwest Baltimore is being transformed into what charitable groups and civic leaders hope will serve as a beacon for addressing chronic homelessness. 

The four pro-life advocates honored Aug. 11 at the annual “People of Life” awards built legacies for their work protesting outside abortion clinics, encouraging Black Catholic leaders for a culture of life, and opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide.

The 410 firearms collected during the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s third annual gun buyback Aug. 9 exceeded expectations and boosted hopes of ending gun violence. The day’s urgency was underscored hours later when a mass shooting in Park Heights left a 38-year-old man dead and injured four other adults and a 5-year-old girl.

In this episode of Catholic Review Radio, Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Joseph Hazboun, regional director for Catholic Near East Welfare Association, a pontifical mission. Hazboun says the situation in the Gaza Strip is unspeakably tragic.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant sentenced Patrick Brice Aug. 7 to one-year home detention and three years’ probation for his attack on two pro-life advocates.

NDMU is collaborating with Milwaukee’s Mount Mary University to address staffing shortages in education and social work, with a joint agreement to increase the number of students with advanced degrees.

A funeral Mass for Religious Sister of Mercy Agnese Neumann will be offered at 11 a.m. on Aug. 11 at St. Joseph in Cockeysville. Sister Agnese died Aug. 2. She was 95.

The Maryland Catholic Conference issued a statement Aug. 6 asking for a renewed commitment to worldwide peace on the 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that helped lead to the end of World War II.