Todd Karpovich reports on a wide variety of Baltimore-area and Maryland topics for The Baltimore Sun's emerging news desk, including crime and public safety, government, weather, environment, ...

The Church prays for the dead, and this prayer says much about the reality of the Church itself. It says that the Church continues to live in the hope of eternal life. Prayer for the dead is almost a ...

High pressure building in from the north will bring us a decent day today under partly to mostly cloudy skies.

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their ...