Catholic Review Managing Editor George P. Matysek Jr. talks with two Daughters of St. Paul about their new books geared to children.

Campbell Diffendall, an 18-year-old senior at the all-girls Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, is serving as a manager for the varsity football team at Loyola Blakefield.

At the Carmelite Monastery of Baltimore, a place meant for silence and solitude, the sounds of pounding hammers and sawing have become a typical – and welcomed – sound this year as the community of religious sisters looks to the future.

A funeral Mass for Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart Sister Dolores “Dolly” Glick will be offered at the Stella Maris Chapel in Timonium Nov. 22 at 11 a.m.

Jeremy Belk started the day Nov. 10 with a full head of hair and a beard. By the end of the day, his brother had shorn him of it all.

Mary Pat Clarke, a former Baltimore City Council member who made history when she became the first woman elected council president in 1987, is being remembered by social justice advocates as a staunch promoter of inclusionary housing, racial justice and policies that support worker rights.

Archbishop William E. Lori said Nov. 13 that the church will continue to minister to migrants and immigrants “as if we were ministering to Christ himself.”

During his formative years as a medical student, Dr. Thomas Cudjoe, an assistant professor in the division of geriatric medicine and gerontology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, was inspired in part to study aging closely after observing how his older landlord was living her life.

As the U.S. bishops began their fall general assembly Nov. 11, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio urged his brother bishops to beg for wisdom.

Deacon Victor Petrosino, who brought imaginative lessons and communications skills he learned as a public school educator to his diaconal ministry at St. Margaret in Bel-Air, died Nov. 5. He was 84.