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Participants attend a meeting sponsored by the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life in Rome June 13, 2019. The dicastery brought together representatives of lay movements and associations to review child protection policies. (CNS photo/courtesy Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life)

Purging silence: Vatican expands abuse prevention to lay movements

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 25, 2019
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Millions of Catholics live their faith through their association with lay movements and Catholic groups, but some also have lost their faith when they were sexually abused in those groups and felt they had nowhere to turn.

Death-row inmate Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi man tried six times for the shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store in Winona, Miss., in 1996, is pictured in a July 1, 2010, photo. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 21, 2019, to overturn Flowers' conviction, saying that by consistently keeping black jurors off the jury the local prosecutor violated the Constitution. (CNS photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections handout via Reuters)

Court overturns conviction of death-row inmate for jury selection bias

Catholic News Service
June 25, 2019
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The court reversed the 2010 conviction of Curtis Flowers, who had argued that the prosecutor, who is white, had prevented African Americans from serving as jurors in his case.

Archbishop William E. Lori, center, and three auxiliary bishops welcomed three new priests into the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 22 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. Pictured, from left, are Bishop Mark Brennan, Father Matt Himes, Father Tyler Kline, Father Matt DeFusco, Bishop Adam Parker and Bishop Denis J. Madden. (Rick Lippenholz/Special to the Review)

‘Indescribable joy’ as three men ordained to the priesthood in Baltimore

Emily Rosenthal Alster
June 24, 2019
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Fathers Matt DeFusco, Matt Himes and Tyler Kline were ordained priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 22.

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