A girl looks at a makeshift memorial Oct. 4 for victims of a mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip Oct. 1He killed at least 59 people and wounded more than 500, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (CNS photo/Steve Marcus, Las Vegas Sun via Reuters)Read More
Paola Bautista of Fontana, Calif., sits in her hospital bed after being shot Oct. 1 during the Route 91 music festival next to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. A gunman, identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, was perched in a room on the 32nd floor of the resort hotel and unleashed...Read More
People gather at a makeshift memorial Oct. 4 for victims of a mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip. A gunman, identified as Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, was perched in a room on the 32nd floor of a hotel and unleashed a shower of bullets on concertgoers below late Oct. 1. He killed at least...Read More
Cardinal Shehan School choir members Kai Young, left, and John Paige sing “Rise Up” to open the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s annual Partners in Excellence breakfast Sept. 6. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)Read More
Kai Young, from left, John Paige, Carlylse Blackwell and Bryana Hardison lead an Archdiocese of Baltimore Catholic Schools Choir dominated by their fellow students from Cardinal Shehan School at a Gala for Catholic Education in Baltimore Sept. 30. The four are featured in a rehearsal video that has gone viral. Kenyatta Hardison, the teacher who...Read More
Howard County homebuilder Michael Pfau, left, and his wife, Mary Therese, are shown with Monsignor Joseph L. Luca, their pastor at St. Louis in Clarksville. Pfau’s company built and donated two four-bedroom houses in Howard County for Mary’s Home, a refuge for unwed pregnant mothers and their children. (Courtesy John O’Donnell)Read More
Archbishop William E. Lori cuts a ribbon during the Oct. 11 dedication of two homes made possible by Mary’s Home, a new Howard County refuge for unwed pregnant mothers and their children. (Courtesy John O’Donnell)Read More
Archbishop William E. Lori blesses a bedroom in one of the two houses that will serve Mary’s Home, a new Howard County refuge for unwed pregnant mothers and their children. (Courtesy Larry Bowers)Read More
Women religious, kids and a couple of men also attended the MCWC closing Mass with Bishop Mark E. Brennan, pictured here speaking with two Daughters of St. Paul Oct. 8 (Photo courtesy of Sarah Jarzembowski)Read More