As the Cold War raged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, 1,000 nuns packed secret messages into tubes of toothpaste and bits of candy – smuggling the reports of human rights abuses and church persecution out of Communist-dominated Lithuania.Read More

(This is the first article in a two-part series.) There is a banner at St. Pius dated July 12, 1931. The date represents the 78th anniversary when the congregation of St. Barnabas located at West Biddle Street and Argyle Avenue relocated and became the congregation of St. Pius V located four blocks away.Read More

Lineetra Seward dreams of a day when she can walk around her Baltimore City neighborhood without fear.Read More

K.C. Bersch first visited Haiti in 1997, when she was a student at the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore. She accompanied her mother on a mission of mercy rooted in their family’s long-distance support of a child there.Read More

Saying the U.S. immigration system is broken, Baltimore City pastors called for its reform during a news conference Jan. 12 at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Baltimore.Read More

City pastors who worked with Mayor Sheila Dixon on issues ranging from homelessness to immigration gave the outgoing mayor generally high marks for her performance in office. Yet, as the 56-year-old mayor prepares to step down Feb. 4 as part of a plea deal in a corruption case, priests throughout the city expressed disappointment in...Read More

While parishioners at Towson’s Immaculate Conception were coming to terms with his retirement announcement in mid-November, Monsignor F. Dennis Tinder was talking about a greater transition.Read More

Jim Burke walked through a foot of snow down York Road to be at the first Mass celebrated at St. Pius X, Rodgers Forge, in 1958.Read More