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Pence addresses religious freedom at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

June 6, 2017

Vice President Mike Pence and other speakers addressed securing religious liberty and protecting the sanctity of human life both in the United States and worldwide, particularly in the Middle East, at the 13th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington June 6.

Bishop William C. Newman smiles at the end of his 2003 retirement Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. (CR file)

A brother priest shares his thoughts on Bishop Newman

Father William Franken

June 6, 2017

Commentary

Bishop Newman’s episcopal model was “To live is Christ.” These few words speak volumes about him as a person. He was a priest and bishop who was loved by everyone who met him.

Archbishop William E. Lori consecrates a new altar at Church of the Ascension in Halethorpe May 28. (Christopher Gunty/CR Staff)

Renovations, new altar dedicated at Church of the Ascension

Christopher Gunty

June 6, 2017

Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Parishes

“We’ve got a consecrated altar now,” Father John Williamson, exclaimed to a parishioner greeting him in the narthex of the Church of the Ascension after a Mass May 28 in which the altar was blessed and the new sanctuary was dedicated.

President Donald Trump enters the Rose Garden at the White House June 1. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters)

President takes travel ban battle to U.S. Supreme Court – and Twitter

Rhina Guidos

June 6, 2017

News

In a series of tweets June 5, U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to express frustration with his own lawyers’ efforts to push forward with a revised version of a plan that seeks to temporarily ban travelers and refugees from certain majority Muslim countries, and said the lawyers “should have stayed with the original travel ban.”

Conventual Franciscan Father Berard Dudek was a former pastor of St. Casimir in Canton.

Father Dudek, former pastor of St. Casimir, dies at 89

Catholic Review Staff

June 6, 2017

News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate

A funeral Mass for Conventual Franciscan Father Berard Dudek will be offered June 8 at 11 a.m. at St. Casimir Church in Baltimore. A Baltimore native who died June 4 at age 89, Father Dudek served three stints at the parish and had a number of other assignments in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

‘Richly Blessed’: St. Lawrence Martyr opens new parish complex

Erik Zygmont

June 5, 2017

Eastern Vicariate, Feature, Local News, News, Parishes

While a church being replaced with a beerhall is sadly not uncommon in this day and age, the reverse is newsworthy.

U.S. Catholics join pope in praying for victims of London attacks

Catholic News Service

June 5, 2017

News

U.S. Catholics joined Pope Francis and the rest of the world in expressing sorrow for those killed and severely injured in the latest terrorist attacks in London the night of June 3.

Pope Francis and Patti Gallagher Mansfield, a participant in the 1967 Pittsburgh retreat that marked the beginning of the Charismatic renewal, pray during a Pentecost vigil marking the 50th anniversary of the Catholic charismatic renewal at the Circus Maximus in Rome June 3. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pentecost is celebration of unity in diversity, pope says

Cindy Wooden

June 4, 2017

News, Worship & Sacraments

The Holy Spirit continues to give Christians different gifts and to call them to share those gifts with each other in a community marked by forgiveness and “unity in diversity,” Pope Francis said on Pentecost.

Timothy Trainor was named president of Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg June 3. (Courtesy Mount St. Mary' University)

Timothy Trainor appointed 26th president of Mount St. Mary’s University

Catholic Review Staff

June 3, 2017

Campus Ministry, News, Western Vicariate

The Board of Trustees of Mount St. Mary’s University announced June 3 the permanent appointment of Dr. Timothy Trainor as president of the university.

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Vigil of Pentecost

Archbishop William E. Lori

June 3, 2017

Archbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

God’s Son became one of us and died on the Cross to restore our relationship to the Father, undermined by sin. And, as Pope Francis teaches, “From the immense gift of love which is Jesus’ death on the Cross, the Holy Spirit has been poured out on humanity like a vast torrent of grace.”

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: St. Josemaria Escriva

Archbishop William E. Lori

June 3, 2017

Archbishop Lori Homily, From the Archbishop

Through the Spirit, we share in the unique Son-ship of Christ and for that reason we claim God as our Father
and as members of his family, the Church, we experience his goodness and mercy –the fullness of life and love for which our human spirit longs.