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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.

A new pro-life pregnancy resource center located next to Planned Parenthood in downtown Baltimore is expected to open in Summer 2020. (Courtesy Center for Pregnancy Concerns)

Center for Pregnancy Concerns’ Howard St. location expected to open on schedule

Erik Zygmont
June 11, 2020
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The pro-life Center for Pregnancy Concerns (CPC) will open as planned at 328 N. Howard St. in Baltimore, next door to the city’s Planned Parenthood location, late this summer, according to Gina Ruppert, executive director of CPC.

Bishop-designate Bruce A. Lewandowski makes a passionate plea to the Maryland governor’s office for increasing the number of COVID-19 tests in Baltimore City June 10 during a press conference outside his parish, Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Church, in Highlandtown. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Highlandtown pastor urges more COVID-19 testing sites in hard-hit Latino and African American communities

Tim Swift
June 10, 2020
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Bishop-designate Bruce Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., appealed to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Jr. June 10 to increase free COVID-19 testing in Baltimore to expand beyond his parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown.

Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien, left, grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, right, share a light moment Aug. 12, 2014 with Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski while vesting for his installation as the ninth bishop of t he Diocese of Springfield, Mass. (Tom McCarthy Jr/CR file)

Pope names Bishop Rozanski, Baltimore native, as Archbishop of St. Louis

George P. Matysek Jr.
June 10, 2020
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Pope Francis has named Baltimore native Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., as the 10th archbishop of St. Louis.

With his sponsors José Ermenegildo Abreu and Cecilia Lanfranco by his side, José Melo is baptized by Redemptorist Father Bruce Lewandowski, pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus, during Easter Vigil at the Highlandtown parish April 15, 2017. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

New Baltimore auxiliary bishop wanted to be a ‘frontier priest’

Christopher Gunty
June 10, 2020
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Redemptorist Father Bruce Lewandowski was surprised June 1 by a call from Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio – the pope’s representative in the United States – relating that Pope Francis had selected the pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Parish in Highlandtown as the archdiocese’s new auxiliary bishop. The appointment was announced June 10.
“I’m very humbled and I never saw this coming,” he said in an interview.

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