The Baltimore Catholic League will play its 54th-annual BCL basketball tournament at Loyola University Maryland’s Reitz Arena over four days, beginning Feb. 27 and concluding March 3.

For the first school day of Catholic School Week, Archbishop William E. Lori, Superintendent Donna Hargens and Chancellor Gregory A. Farno found themselves back in school Jan. 27, joining children at three elementary schools for a day filled with faith and fun.

The new Blessed Michael J. McGivney Propaedeutic House of Formation in Baltimore was formally dedicated and blessed by Archbishop William E. Lori at a ceremony Jan. 23 after extensive renovations to a former visitor center and the completion of an additional building. 

Redemptorist Father Patrick Flynn, who served the parish of St. Mary in Annapolis for nearly two decades, died  Jan. 14 in his native South Africa. He was 83. 

Two-time Emmy-winning reporter Stephon Dingle credits the Catholic education he received at Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School in Essex for helping shape him into the man he is today.

Five elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are among 356 schools nationwide to be recognized as National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

Maryland’s Catholic bishops, including three from the Archdiocese of Baltimore, released a joint statement Jan. 27 expressing solidarity with immigrants and recommitting to advocate for policies that protect rights and uphold the dignity of that community. 

Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Bob Wilson, who now works with St. Paul Street Evangelization in Michigan, about the motivation and methods for reaching out to people to invite them to a relationship with Jesus in the Catholic Church.

While Catholic school uniforms have changed in style and fabric over the years, two things remain the same: the uniforms are a source of unity and students never have to worry about what to wear.

The Classic — the annual showdown between Mercy and Maryvale — is doing a pretty good job of finding a niche in local high school basketball circles just four years after its inception.