At the conclusion of the current school year, 13 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will close. The Catholic Review pays homage to those schools and their legacies, with capsules of six elementary schools this week, six more in the June 3 issue, and an article on The Cardinal Gibbons School in the June...Read More

Karen Hanrahan has been named the new president of Seton Keough High School in Baltimore. Hanrahan formerly worked in institutional advancement and development at St. Mary Academy-Bay View, a pre-K through grade 12 academy for young women in Rhode Island. She has a bachelor’s degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and a master of...Read More

VATICAN CITY – With the Shroud of Turin now carefully put away, church officials said that more than 2 million pilgrims had come to venerate the linen cloth in the six weeks it was on display.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The gift of the Holy Spirit creates the unity and universality of the Catholic Church, overcoming barriers of nationality and language and opening people’s hearts to work with and serve one another, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

Father F. Richard Spencer, who was ordained in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and served in several parishes and at the retreat house in Sparks before becoming a U.S. Army chaplain in 1991, was named by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome May 22 auxiliary bishop of the Military Archdiocese and Titular Bishop of Auzia.Read More

WASHINGTON – A bipartisan bill before the House of Representatives would bring the new health reform law “into line with policies on abortion and conscience rights that have long prevailed in other federal health programs,” said the head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The gentle notes of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise” wafted through the Vatican audience hall and carried with them hopes for improved relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church.Read More

WASHINGTON – Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will undoubtedly have profound consequences for the nation’s hospitals and physicians, its exact effects remain unclear – and dependent on rules still to be written.Read More