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Bishop-designate Bruce Lewandowski is showered with well wishes during a surprise parade in honor of his appointment as auxiliary bishop of Baltimore June 13 outside Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore parishioners overjoyed as they keep a pastor and gain a bishop

Tim Swift
June 13, 2020
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Come August, he’ll have gained the title “His Excellency,” but for the parishioners of Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highalndtown and its mission church of St. Patrick in Fells Point, he’ll remain and always be “Padre Bruce.”

Conventual Franciscan Father Timothy Dore, pastor of St. Michael the Archangel in Overlea, uses a megaphone during an abbreviated funeral service May 15 for Gertrude DePalo, who died peacefully at age 96. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

In challenging time, priests lean on their own loss as they bury the dead

Paul McMullen
June 12, 2020
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Sensitive pastoral care from priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, coupled with the support of funeral homes and cemeteries, has comforted many families during the coronavirus pandemic

Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester and longtime Catholic Worker peace activist, lies on the ground after he was shoved by two Buffalo police officers June 4, 2020, during a protest against police violence against minorities. (CNS photo/Jamie Quinn, Reuters)

Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say

Rhina Guidos
June 12, 2020
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Catholic activist Martin Gugino long has been anti-war, anti-hunger, anti-violence, when it comes to opposing social ills, but the one “anti” that doesn’t fit the bill is the “antifa” moniker President Donald Trump tried to pin on him in a June 9 tweet, friends say.

In between remote teaching her students at St. John Regional Catholic School, Andrea Sommers helps her son, Henry, a first-grader there. (Courtesy Andrea Sommers)

Adapting to coronavirus pandemic as teacher, wife, mom

Brooke Mosca
June 12, 2020
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Andrea Sommers will never forget her 10th year as a teacher at St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick. She teaches social studies, English language arts and religion to 82 fifthand sixth-graders. Since mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic has forced her to do all that from home, which she shares with her husband, Dwight, a captain […]

Sun shines through a statue of Christ on a grave marker alongside an American flag at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Appleton, Wis., in this 2018 photo. The U.S. State Department issued its annual report on attacks on religious freedom around globe June 10, 2020. (CNS photo/Bradley Birkholz)

State Department report: China among worst offenders of religious freedom

Catholic News Service
June 11, 2020
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Top U.S. State Department officials singled out China as one of the world’s worst offenders of religious freedom because it had subjected religious minorities to imprisonment and forced labor.

Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of Springfield, Mass., addresses the congregation during a March 2, 2017, prayer service in Chicago. On June 10, 2020, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis and named Bishop Rozanski as his successor. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)

Newly named St. Louis archbishop shares mom’s advice to him: ‘Don’t get a big head’

Rebecca Drake
June 11, 2020
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Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski traveled from Springfield to the St. Louis Archdiocese as its newly named archbishop with this advice from his mother, Jean: “Don’t get a big head.”

A man in Washington holds up a child during a protest against racial inequality June 6, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minnesota was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital. (CNS photo/Eric Thayer, Reuters)

I am a white mamma of bi-racial children

Suzanna Molino Singleton
June 11, 2020
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My husband says I will never understand what it is like to be the only black person in a room, that I will never understand what it is like when strangers look at him a certain way – he’s absolutely right.

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted June 11 that he was "honored" by an open letter written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who served as nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016. In the letter, the former nuncio claimed that lockdown restrictions and unrest in the United States were part of a plot to establish a new world order. (CNS photo/Twitter)

Trump tweets he’s ‘honored’ by former nuncio’s letter

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 11, 2020
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President Donald Trump said he was “honored” by an open letter from a former Vatican official who claimed that restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 were part of a Masonic plot to establish a new world order.

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