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A migrant and her daughter rest outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, July 14. As part of the legal proceedings under a new policy established by the U.S. government, they were returned to Mexico from the United States to await their court hearing for asylum. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Trump administration to apply ‘third country’ rule for asylum-seekers

Catholic News Service
July 16, 2019
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Critics claim the rule will affect not just Central Americans fleeing poverty and gang violence, but those elsewhere seeking to escape religious persecution and abuse.

Shelly Pennefather, who later became Sister Rose Marie, a member of the Poor Clare order, is seen during her time as a member of the women's basketball team at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. She celebrated her 25th jubilee at the Poor Clare convent in Alexandria, Va., June 9. (CNS photo/courtesy Villanova Athletics)

Poor Clare sister who traded in hoops for life of prayer marks silver jubilee

Elizabeth A. Elliott
July 15, 2019
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Sister Rose Marie of the Queen of Angels was a Parade All-American and then set a Villanova scoring record before choosing a life of prayer.

Participants at the Archbishop Lyke Conference sing together during the gathering’s closing Mass July 6, 2019, in National Harbor. The five-day conference on African American Catholic worship and ministries drew 370 people from 32 dioceses across the country. (CNS photo/Andrew Rozario, Catholic Standard)

Conference celebrates African American Catholics’ gifts to liturgy, ministry

Mark Zimmerman
July 15, 2019
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Several hundred gathered in Prince George’s County to enrich liturgies and ministries and promote evangelization at parishes serving Black Catholics,

This is an aerial view of a deforested plot of the Amazon at the Bom Futuro National Forest in Porto Velho, Brazil, Sept. 3, 2015. In a message sent in early July to participants of an Italian conference on the consequences of deforestation in the Amazon, Pope Francis said the current situation in the South American rainforest “is a sad paradigm of what is happening in many parts of the planet.” (CNS photo/Nacho Doce, Reuters)

Praising God for gift of creation leads to respect for it, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves
July 11, 2019
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The pope said the current situation in the South American rainforest “is a sad paradigm of what is happening in many parts of the planet.”

Vatican workers open tombs
Workers open the tomb of Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who died in 1840, during a forensic investigation in the Teutonic Cemetery at the Vatican July 11, 2019. Two tombs were opened based on a tip that the remains of Emanuela Orlandi, who disappeared in 1983, could be buried there. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican discovers empty tombs as it searches for missing woman

Cindy Wooden
July 11, 2019
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Opening the Vatican tombs of a princess and a duchess July 11 in a search for the remains of a young Italian woman missing for more than 30 years, the Vatican found no human remains at all.

“The search had a negative result,” said Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press office. “No human remains or funeral urns were found.”

The side-by-side tombs had been marked as the final resting places of Princess Sophie von Hohenlohe, who died in 1836, and Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the mother of King Frederick VII of Denmark, who died in 1840.

A Vatican City State court had ordered the opening of the tombs at the request of the family of Emanuela Orlandi who disappeared in Rome June 22, 1983, at the age of 15. She was a Vatican City resident and daughter of a Vatican employee.

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