A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Joan Marie Minella was offered May 30 at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Joan died May 9, just a few days shy of turning 90.

The second convening of the Commission on Faith-Based Colleges and Universities of the American Council on Education was the first for Holy Cross Father Robert A. Dowd, who became the 18th president of the University of Notre Dame last September.

The House Judiciary Committee voted June 10 to repeal a federal law crafted to protect access to reproductive health facilities by prohibiting actions such as obstructing the entrance to an abortion clinic.

At a time when federal funding cuts are straining the services of charitable organizations across the region, Archbishop William E. Lori offered a message of hope and solidarity during a special “Mass for the Preservation of Peace and Justice” celebrated June 11 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.

When Sister Marcia Hall was elected in April as the next superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, the nation’s oldest functioning Black Catholic religious order, she would have to wait for her new administration to meet to prioritize goals for their four-year tenure.