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Pope Francis hears the confession of a priest March 7, 2019, at Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. The pope administered the sacrament to several priests during his annual Lenten meeting with the priests of the Diocese of Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Wake Up: The real danger posed by the California confession bill

Bishop Robert Barron
May 15, 2019
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Catholics should, of course, rise up in strenuous protest against this very aggressive incursion—but so should anyone who cares about the freedom of religion in our society.

A funeral Mass was offered May 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg for Sister Jane Marie Otterson, D.C.

Sister Jane Marie Otterson, D.C., served parishes, outreaches in Baltimore Archdiocese

Catholic Review Staff
May 15, 2019
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A funeral Mass was offered May 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg for Sister Jane Marie Otterson, D.C., who gave 71 years to her vocation as a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Sister Jane Marie died April 29, at age 93.

A funeral Mass was offered May 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg for Sister Sheila O’Friel, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul for 65 years.

Sister Sheila O’Friel, D.C., served in Emmitsburg

Catholic Review Staff
May 15, 2019
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A funeral Mass was offered May 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg for Sister Sheila O’Friel, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul for 65 years.

Jean Vanier, founder of the L'Arche communities, is pictured in a March 11, 2015, photo. Vanier, a Canadian Catholic figure whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in multiple countries over the past half century, died May 7 at age 90. (CNS photo/courtesy Jean Vanier Association)

What Jean Vanier taught us

Effie Caldarola
May 14, 2019
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Vanier changed attitudes toward the intellectually and physically disabled in ways so deep that we can hardly comprehend it.

Archbishop William E. Lori was among the attendees at a May 7 celebration of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. He is pictured with members of the Atlantic-Midwest Province Council, from left, Sister Sharon Kanis, Sister Charmaine Krohe, the provincial leader, Sister Jane Forni and Sister Maria Iannuccillo. (Courtesy Father Justin Ross, O.F.M. Conv.)

SSNDs celebrate their religious community’s 185th jubilee

Catholic Review Staff
May 14, 2019
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The School Sisters of Notre Dame in the Archdiocese of Baltimore marked the 185th anniversary of the founding of their religious community with a celebration at Columbus Gardens in Perry Hall May 7.

Pictured are six of seven Romanian Catholic bishops who died during a fierce anti-religious campaign waged under the communist regime in Romania. Pope Francis will beatify them in Romania June 2. Clockwise: Auxiliary Bishop Vasile Aftenie of Fagaras and Alba Iulia; Bishop Ioan Balan of Lugoj, Auxiliary Bishop Tit Liviu Chinezu of Fagaras and Alba Iulia; Bishop Valeriu Traian Frentiu of Oradea Mare; Bishop Ioan Suciu, apostolic administrator of Fagaras and Alba Iulia; and Bishop Alexandru Rusu of Maramures. Not pictured is Cardinal Iuliu Hossu of Gherla. (CNS photo/courtesy Romanian Catholic bishops' conference)

Martyred Romanian bishops symbolize church’s ‘resurrection from darkness’

Jonathan Luxmoore
May 14, 2019
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A cardinal incarcerated for 18 years after refusing to abandon his church and a bishop thrown in an unmarked grave after starving to death in an “extermination prison” are among seven communist-era martyrs who will be beatified by Pope Francis during his upcoming visit to Romania.

At right, Archangel Attic volunteer Kathy Jacoby assists a customer at the parish thrift store next to St. Benedict Church in Anchorage April 8, 2019. (CNS photo/Ron Nicholl, Catholic Anchor)

Alaska thrift shop raises $1 million for a Catholic school

Rashae Ophus Johnson
May 13, 2019
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Of all the designer clothes, quirky conversation pieces and valuable antiques that have rotated through the thrift shop, Archangel Attic, maybe the greatest treasure to come from this modest Anchorage shop is the $1 million it has made for Lumen Christi High School in Anchorage.

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