Earlier today, the Archdiocese of Baltimore learned that Deacon William Albaugh, 66, was arrested this morning on one charge of possession of child pornography by the Baltimore County Police Department.Read More

St. Thomas More Academy in Middletown has named Irene Wunderlich as the new principal, the school has announced.Read More

If Congress does not act to prevent $85 billion in spending cuts scheduled to begin March 1, Catholic Charities of Baltimore may be among the impacted institutions, said its executive director William J. McCarthy Jr.Read More

Edmund Burke is acknowledged for the famous saying "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." This week our John Carroll Senior Class of 2013 worked hard to make it known that good people can and do indeed make a positive difference in theRead More

During this penitential season of Lent, it was refreshing to receive this vignette from my oldest brother, about our maternal grandmother and her experience of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, known in her day simply as “Penance” or “Confession.” Granny Kohs told my brother this story once she found out he was studying German. Our ancestersRead More

Before I came to the Catholic Review and worked under the immensely insightful direction of the late writer and editor Christopher Gaul, I had another mentor.Baltimore Sun editor Mary Corey spoke on a career panel at what is now Notre Dame of Maryland University. I was a senior, and itRead More

Deacon Richard Kunkel died Feb. 21, four days after his wife, Bertha, to whom he was married for 66 years.Read More

A funeral Mass for Congregation of the Sisters of Providence Diane Ris was offered Feb. 26 in Indiana. Sister Diane died Feb. 20. She was 80 and had been a sister for more than six decades.Read More