Fixed up and polished, Havre de Grace church ready for Easter School Sisters of Notre Dame sell Villa Assumpta to Baltimore senior housing nonprofit Saint’s relic in Hunt Valley brings comfort to cancer families Shrine is a place of prayer, pilgrimage and ‘encounter’ with St. John Paul II’s life, legacy BMA exhibition highlights how Matisse reimagined the Stations of the Cross Local News Fixed up and polished, Havre de Grace church ready for Easter Katie V. Jones March 26, 2026 Father Francis Ouma sees the imprint of parishioners everywhere inside the newly renovated St. Patrick Church in Havre de Grace – in every restored surface and carefully renewed detail. School Sisters of Notre Dame sell Villa Assumpta to Baltimore senior housing nonprofit Jay Sorgi March 26, 2026 Villa Assumpta, the longtime regional motherhouse for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, will be redeveloped into a nonprofit continuing care community for senior living. Saint’s relic in Hunt Valley brings comfort to cancer families Jay Sorgi March 26, 2026 About 50 pilgrims arrived Feb. 6 for the weekly prayer gathering at the chapel of the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier in Hunt Valley, some traveling across state lines. In the presence of a first-order relic of St. Michael of the Saints, a 17th-century Spanish priest and member of the Trinitarians known for his deep devotion to the Eucharist, the names flowed like water. BMA exhibition highlights how Matisse reimagined the Stations of the Cross George P. Matysek Jr. March 25, 2026 In spare black-and-white lines – almost graffiti-like in their directness – Matisse grouped all 14 Stations together in an expansive mural more than six feet tall. 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Fixed up and polished, Havre de Grace church ready for Easter Katie V. Jones March 26, 2026 Father Francis Ouma sees the imprint of parishioners everywhere inside the newly renovated St. Patrick Church in Havre de Grace – in every restored surface and carefully renewed detail.
School Sisters of Notre Dame sell Villa Assumpta to Baltimore senior housing nonprofit Jay Sorgi March 26, 2026 Villa Assumpta, the longtime regional motherhouse for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, will be redeveloped into a nonprofit continuing care community for senior living.
Saint’s relic in Hunt Valley brings comfort to cancer families Jay Sorgi March 26, 2026 About 50 pilgrims arrived Feb. 6 for the weekly prayer gathering at the chapel of the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier in Hunt Valley, some traveling across state lines. In the presence of a first-order relic of St. Michael of the Saints, a 17th-century Spanish priest and member of the Trinitarians known for his deep devotion to the Eucharist, the names flowed like water.
BMA exhibition highlights how Matisse reimagined the Stations of the Cross George P. Matysek Jr. March 25, 2026 In spare black-and-white lines – almost graffiti-like in their directness – Matisse grouped all 14 Stations together in an expansive mural more than six feet tall.
6 ways Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco expressed her Catholic faith Maria Wiering March 27, 2026 As Pope Leo XIV prepares to visit Monaco March 28, Americans will no doubt be reminded of another U.S.-born Catholic monarch — the actress-made-princess Grace Kelly, who lived in Monaco following her marriage to its Sovereign Prince Rainier III in April 1956 until her untimely death in 1982.
r/AskAPriest: The internet’s holiest forum Andrew Foster March 27, 2026 The subreddit r/AskAPriest was created around five years ago. Father Jacob Maurer, one of its founders, said it stemmed from a need he and fellow priests who posted on r/Catholicism identified.
Vatican ‘unequivocally’ condemns slavery, counters ‘partial narrative’ in UN resolution Gina Christian March 27, 2026 The Vatican’s top diplomat to the United Nations condemned modern and historical slavery — while countering what he called a “partial narrative” in a newly adopted U.N. resolution denouncing the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity.”
Sept. 24 beatification of Archbishop Sheen to be ‘a moment of immense grace’ OSV News March 27, 2026 Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24 in St. Louis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced March 25.
A simple guide to Holy Week Heidi Busse March 26, 2026 During this special time, we enter into the passion of Christ — his Crucifixion, death and Resurrection — through liturgical celebration and personal conversion.
The Donatist comeback George Weigel March 25, 2026 The strange, Donatist parallelism between the SSPX leadership and the German Synodal Path illustrates what’s come to be called the “horseshoe effect:” in a moment of cultural turbulence, social fragmentation, and political dysfunction like our own, the extremes of left and right bend toward each other rather than occupying two ends of a linear spectrum.
Who was Venerable Father Flanagan, Boys Town founder? Deacon Omar F.A. Gutierrez March 25, 2026 Father Flanagan is an icon of the power of diaconal identity. It both shows us and makes effective now the power of Christ the Servant. Where Father Flanagan saw pain, he rushed in and embraced the child of God who suffered. When he saw injustice, he spoke out eloquently and forcefully called others to greater charity in Christ.
Question Corner: Does holy water ‘absolve’ us from venial sin? Jenna Marie Cooper March 25, 2026 With respect to holy water in particular, St. Thomas Aquinas specifically identifies the “sprinkling of holy water” as a means for the remission of venial sin in question 87, article 3 of the “Third Part” of his work the “Summa Theologica.”
Why does the Annunciation loom so large in Catholicism? Elizabeth Scalia March 23, 2026 The Annunciation is the full-on proof of Augustine’s words: “God created us without us, but he will not save us without us.” Just as God’s own Word of assent was necessary for the creation and sustained expansion of the universe, Mary’s “yes” was necessary to its salvation.
