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Jazmine Servance is shown with Chiya McDonald, a friend, at the Institute of Notre Dame’s 2019 graduation at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. This year’s commencement will be held July 26. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

IND students attempt to move on

Paul McMullen
June 6, 2020
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They’re mourning the loss of a beloved institution, and searching for a new place to study and work – all while practicing remote learning because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Declaración sobre la eliminación de las facultades sacerdotales del padre Carlos Osorio

Archdiocese of Baltimore
June 6, 2020

La Arquidiócesis de Baltimore anuncia que ha eliminado las facultades sacerdotales de Padre Carlos Osorio, quien está en una excedencia efectiva de inmediato. Al Padre Osorio no se le permite ejercer ministerio en ninguna capacidad en la Arquidiócesis deBaltimore debido a relaciones sexuales que involucran a adultos que es inapropiada para un sacerdote. Se le ha instruido que no se presente como sacerdote y que no solicite fondos a los feligreses.

Statement on the Removal of the Priestly Faculties of Father Carlos Osorio

Archdiocese of Baltimore
June 6, 2020

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is announcing that it has removed the priestly faculties of Father Carlos Osorio, who is on a leave of absence effective immediately. Father Osorio is not permitted to minister in any capacity in the Archdiocese of Baltimore due to sexual activity involving adults that is inappropriate for a priest. He has been instructed not to present himself as a priest and not to solicit funds from parishioners.

Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, is seen in Washington in this 2017 file photo. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Knights ask Catholics to pray novena for national unity, end to racism

Catholic News Service
June 5, 2020
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The Knights of Columbus called on the nation’s Catholics to participate in a novena beginning June 7 to pray for national unity and an end to racism amid the unrest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.

A file photo shows a priest hearing confession at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing. The Chinese government said that in addition to meeting health requirements after the COVID-19 outbreak, priests must "preach on patriotism" as a condition for reopening their churches. (CNS photo/Damir Sagolj, Reuters)

China makes preaching patriotism compulsory to reopen churches

Catholic News Service
June 4, 2020
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Catholics are upset about a directive from China’s communist government asking priests to “preach on patriotism” as a condition for reopening liturgical services, suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

About 250 people attended the prayer vigil at St. Vincent de Paul Church downtown Baltimore on June 3, 2020 despite people avoiding public events because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Tim Swift/CR Staff)

Baltimore faith leaders call for peace and unity

Tim Swift
June 4, 2020
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Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori joined faith leaders from across the city June 3 to pray for peace and healing after more than a week of nationwide protests and unrest in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers.

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas, kneels at El Paso's Memorial Park holding a "Black Lives Matter" sign June 1, 2020. After "taking a knee" during that demonstration in solidarity with George Floyd -- an unarmed black man said to have spent several minutes under a Minnesota police officer's knee before becoming unconscious and later dying -- Bishop Seitz received a call from Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Fernie Ceniceros, courtesy Diocese of El Paso)

After ‘taking a knee,’ border bishop gets a call from the pope

Rhina Guidos
June 4, 2020
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“The Holy Father said that he wanted to congratulate me for the words I am saying,” Bishop Seitz said,

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