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Immaculate Conception students give hair for cancer patients

Noses scrunched, eyes were closed and deep breaths were taken May 27 inside the gymnasium of Immaculate Conception School in Towson. Sitting in makeshift salon chairs, more than 50 students were about to have the most memorable haircut of their lives.

Mount Carmel steps into great unknown with football

Patrick Williams always wanted to play football, but his parents thought he would get hurt.

Baltimore City Council targets pro-life pregnancy centers

Baltimore City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and 10 members of the 14-member council are sponsoring a bill that Catholic leaders believe harasses pro-life pregnancy support centers.

Park Heights painting highlights saint

It looks more than a little bit like a Picasso, the nun’s painting of St. Ambrose baptizing St. Augustine.

Archbishop dedicates new church in Libertytown

LIBERTYTOWN – When Monsignor John Dietzenbach pushed open the doors of the new St. Peter the Apostle Church in Libertytown during a Sept. 7 dedication liturgy, more than 900 parishioners looked on in stunned silence.

Catholics remember Charles G. Tildon Jr.

Charles G. Tildon Jr., who served the church in a variety of capacities and received the papal honor of being named to the Knights of St. Gregory the Great, died Dec. 16 of cancer. He was 81.

Destroyed by fire, Grantsville parish to rebuild

The fire that devastated St. Ann in Grantsville two days before Christmas may have taken the tiny faith community’s church building but it failed to claim the parish’s spirit. Parishioners now worship in the chapel at Newman Funeral Home in Grantsville and the religious education program has adopted a home-based approach under the direction of...

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Archbishop Hannan, 98, laid foundation for Baltimore CYO, counseled Kennedy

Retired Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans, a World War II paratroop chaplain, counselor to President John F. Kennedy, and staunch defender of civil rights and the unborn who began his ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Sept. 29 at age 98.

John Carroll senior sees life clearly now

Molly Ann Pais has it all. She is less than a month away from graduating from The John Carroll School in Bel Air, has been a star defensive player on one of Baltimore’s top girls high school lacrosse teams and boasts a 3.95 grade point average.

Men in Black showdown a slam dunk success

Father T. Austin Murphy paced courtside in Archbishop Spalding High School’s gymnasium Nov. 5.

Archbishop O’Brien opposes Merzbacher’s release

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is joining survivors of sexual abuse in opposing the possible release of John J. Merzbacher, a former teacher at Catholic Community School in South Baltimore who is serving four life terms for child rape.

St. Alphonsus honors Baltimore’s spymaster priest

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.