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Students and staff at Saint Margaret School in Bel Air have spent the past week celebrating the Catholic school's recognition as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, with blue decorations on campus, treats such as blueberry muffins and wearing blue clothing and accessories.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City Monday, Sept. 30, unveiled a new, state-of-the-art interactive learning center, with new furniture and technology. Bishop Mitchell Rozanski was on hand for the blessing.

Archbishop William Lori comments on the reasons Pope Francis has captured the world's attention.

A police dog was credited with the capture and arrest of two burglars. A telephone operator alerted police that Jarusek's Carry Out Restaurant on Route 40 in Aberdeen was being robbed. A Maryland State Police trooper arrived on the scene with his service dog. The officer and his dog proceeded into a wooded area to the rear of the restaurant, where the men were sniffed out by the dog and captured

In an extraordinary, wide-ranging interview, Pope Francis expressed frustration that the Catholic Church is ¿obsessed¿ with issues such as abortion, homosexuality and contraception, and called instead for a focus on healing and mercy.

This past Sunday the Annual Festival for the Arts took place in Shamrock Park. It was a beautiful day and a wonderful event.

Joseph G. Finnerty Jr., a highly-regarded trial lawyer who had headed what is now DLA Piper's litigation department and later over saw expansion of the firm to Philadelphia and New York city, died Thursday of Alzheimer's disease at Copper Ridge assisted-living facility in Sykesville. He was 76.

A former teacher at Baltimore's Archbishop Curley High School was sentenced this week in Connecticut to serve five years in prison and 20 years probation on charges of possession of child pornography, obscenity and three counts of risk of injury to a minor, a court official said Friday.

Preliminary plans for the new Aberdeen Junior High School building were eliminated by the Capital Improvements Commission, which was very displeased with some of the extra features of the proposed building, including a $150,000 swimming pool and a planetarium. The inclusion of a swimming pool was said to be "an unwarranted luxury." The proposed planetarium would be used by several schools but the commission recommended that if a planetarium were to be built in the county that it be more central.

Pope Francis surprised the Catholic faithful on Monday by saying the Roman Catholic Church shouldn't marginalize gay priests, saying: "Who am I to judge?"

This summer, a van is bringing the federal free-meals program for children into Baltimore neighborhoods.

The John Carroll School in Bel Air is renovating a building that began its life as a faculty house into a residence hall for 14 international students.

Grace Sullivan, who recently graduated from 8th grade at St. Louis School, received the Knott scholarship, the Gateway Academic Achievement Award and Sister Helen Marie Duffy Scholarship.

Decision sends case on unusual city law back to lower court.

Six-year-old Teresa Bartlinski passed away Monday after an unsuccessful attempt to implant an artificial heart after her body rejected a donor's heart, her family said.

Ann Bartlinski placed the Eucharist and a pearl-beaded rosary blessed by the hands of the late Pope John Paul II on the chest of her 6-year-old daughter, Teresa, who lay Tuesday in a hospital bed, her tiny body rejecting a donor's heart.

July 4 marks 50th anniversary of the demonstration for integration that took place at the Gwynn Oak Park, Music on Main Street

Archbishop Lori says Obama administration is forcing people to choose between violating their beliefs or the law

President Barack Obama has nominated Ken Hackett, the humanitarian who served as president of Catholic Relief Services between 1993 and 2011, as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

Calvert Hall names Frank Bramble interim president

As the City Council works to finalize Baltimore's fee structure, religious nonprofits are lobbying local lawmakers to charge their groups a lower rate than companies and other nonresidential property owners.

Six people will be added to the Edgewood High School Hall of Fame during afternoon and evening ceremonies to be held at the school on Wednesday, June 5.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday.

Surrounded by men and women who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Wednesday repealing the state's death penalty.

O'Malley to sign death penalty repeal

Steve Cohen loans pianos to Baltimore-area school districts in return for the schools distributing take-home flyers to students. It's a way to keep the business finely tuned during trying financial times, when people often forgo buying pianos

Joseph E. Welsh, a retired Baltimore County public school educator who was also a hospice volunteer and Eucharistic minister, died Monday from melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 80.

Archbishop William E. Lori writes that Baltimore Catholic schools are in a stronger position than they were a few years ago but that greater private and state support is needed to maintain them.

Saint Agnes Hospital and the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation have raised $1.4 million to renovate the baseball field of the former Cardinal Gibbons school, preserving a site where Babe Ruth once played.

Olivia Mezzullo of St. Joseph School in Cockeysville is awarded a Knott scholarship, reports Marylee Saarbach,columnist from Cockeysville.

An early-morning fire destroyed a maintenance building on the property of St. Joseph Church in Fullerton

The Howard County Department of Public Works has a repair plan drafted to repair a portion of a historic wall off Main Street in the historic section of Ellicott City that collapsed after Tropical Storm Lee in September, 2011..

The eighth grade students at St. Joan of Arc School participated in a Conclave web chat with William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore

The first population increase in 60 years offers hope that Baltimore's decades-long decline may be ending

As their church's cardinals gathered in Vatican City to select a new pope, Catholic schoolchildren in the Baltimore area joined the worldwide buzz over the secret balloting process in an online chat on Monday with a fairly well-placed source, Archbishop William E. Lori.

He's across the Atlantic from his native Ireland, but Ken Keady was wearing the green Sunday as he bobbed his three-year-old daughter on his shoulders to see Baltimore's St. Patrick's Day parade.

A longtime deacon at a Fullerton church was charged Friday with possessing child pornography, Baltimore County police said.

As 11 American Roman Catholic cardinals convene in Rome to elect the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, it is interesting to note that three cardinals who visited Baltimore during the last century were eventually elected pope.

Archbishop William Lori says retiring pope is a man of great patience, keen intellect and profound kindness

Archbishop William E. Lori will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving next week for the papacy of Benedict XVI, the Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday.

Catholic Archbishop William E. Lori joined a parade of religious, political and civil rights leaders Thursday in urging lawmakers to do away with capital punishment.

Leta Dunham got a breakfast order to go on Roland Avenue Wednesday morning: a grande triple skim latte in her cup, and on her forehead, an ashen reminder that we are all destined to dust.

For Harford County's Catholic residents, the annual Lent season is a time to reflect on how they can improve as people.

The article neglected to mention that there is one more Catholic School in Harford County, St. Joan of Arc School in Aberdeen.

Some schools and businesses around the region will close or open later than usual on Monday after the Baltimore Ravens play in the Super Bowl in New Orleans Sunday evening.