Four College of Notre Dame of Maryland graduates have been named “Teacher of the Year” in their respective Maryland counties: Melissa McFayden, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Ridgely Elementary School in Caroline County; John Billingslea, an AP psychology teacher at Franklin High School in Reisterstown; Bonnie Beavan, math teacher at Spring Ridge Middle School in Lexington...Read More

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said the recent agreement on a treaty to ban cluster bombs showed solidarity to victims of such weapons and opened an important new chapter in international humanitarian law.Read More

People gathered May 29 at War Memorial Plaza in Baltimore to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the “holodomor,” or Ukrainian genocide of 1932-33. Father Vasyl Sivinskyi, pastor of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Baltimore, and Father Vasyl Kryshtompol, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest in Baltimore, lead a prayer service. A torch from Ukraine was used...Read More

Fourth-grader Michael Ehart, 9, of St. Margaret School, Bel Air, spelled his way to the top of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spelling Bee May 16, becoming the youngest student ever to win the contest.Read More

Tell us about your heirlooms! The Catholic Review is looking to profile several parishioners for our 50 PLUS section who possess interesting heirlooms or antiques. E-mail a brief description of the item along with your contact information to ssingleton@catholicreview.org before July 14.Read More

Loyola College in Maryland took top honors for Maryland in the 2008 Mid-Atlantic RecycleMania competition, recycling more than 118,000 pounds of recycled waste to help bring the Mid-Atlantic region’s total to 7.7 million pounds.Read More

VATICAN CITY – If aliens exist, they may be a different life form that does not need Christ’s redemption, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said.Read More

WORCESTER, Mass. – Assumption College in Worcester has received the largest donation in its 104-year history, a $4.2 million gift to support the school’s Catholic intellectual tradition.Read More