A capacity congregation filled St. John the Evangelist Church here Sept. 10 to mark not only the 260th anniversary of the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but to celebrate the blessing of newly installed stained-glass windows depicting scenes from Scripture.

Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of 2023 compared with 2020, according to a New York Times analysis of data from the Guttmacher Institute, which opposes abortion restrictions.

After being shut down because of the pandemic, the biennial Dragon Boat Race and Festival, sponsored and hosted by Catholic Charities of Baltimore, were back in business for the first time since 2018.

After an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that a financial relationship exists between the Vatican and Moscow, the Vatican bank said Sept. 9 that it “does not receive nor invest money from Russia.”

The archdiocese is seeing increasing numbers of men applying to become priests. Joining us to talk about vocations to the priesthood is Father Steven Roth, vocations director for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.