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Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan are pictured in a Jan. 6, 2018, and Feb. 19, 2017, panel photo. Cardinal Cupich says he was blindsided by Farrakhan's invitation to speak at Chicago's St. Sabina Church May 9 and is condemning his remarks. Cardinal Cupich said Farrakhan "repeatedly smeared the Jewish people using thinly veiled discriminatory rhetoric and outright slander. I apologize to my Jewish brothers and sisters." (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic/Rebecca Cook, Reuters)

Chicago archbishop apologizes for Farrakhan visit to Catholic Church

Rhina Guidos
May 13, 2019
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The archbishop of Chicago apologized to the local Jewish community after a priest in the city invited the leader of the Nation of Islam to speak at his church, days after he was banned from Facebook for what it called hate speech.

Mount de Sales Academy celebrates another Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland track and field championship. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Mount de Sales finishes strong to take another track and field title; Gilmore shines on boys’ side

Paul McMullen
May 13, 2019
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Mount de Sales Academy surged to another IAAM track and field championship, while Loyola Blakefield’s Camden Gilmore finished his prep career with an MIAA distance sweep.

Lila Rose, the founder of the pro-life group Live Action that sponsored the "Pro-Life Rally Against Bullying" May 10 in Philadelphia, speaks to a crowd on the street in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in the city. The rally was held in response to the verbal harassment of peaceful sidewalk witnesses by state Rep. Brian Sims, which came to light in recent videos he posted on social media. (CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhilly.com)

Philadelphia holds ‘Pro-Life Rally Against Bullying’

Gina Christian
May 13, 2019
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More than 1,000 people gathered in Philadelphia May 10 to demonstrate against recent social media videos of a Pennsylvania lawmaker berating people for praying outside of an abortion clinic.

Zachary Crowley, Brendan Fitzgerald, Jeremy Smith and Evan Ponton prepare for their May 11 ordination to the diaconate at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Archbishop Lori calls four new transitional deacons to be ‘gentle in ministry’

Paul McMullen
May 13, 2019
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Archbishop William E. Lori ordained four men to the transitional diaconate May 11 at the Baltimore Basilica.

A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 27, 2011, file photo. Pope Francis has decided to allow parishes and dioceses to organize official pilgrimages to Medjugorje; no decision has been made on the authenticity of the apparitions. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Not ruling on apparitions, pope allows pilgrimages to Medjugorje

Cindy Wooden
May 13, 2019
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Parishes and dioceses are now allowed to organize official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but it must be clear that the Catholic Church has not recognized as authentic the alleged Marian apparitions there.

The Basilica of St. Francis with its bell tower is pictured through corn in Assisi, Italy, Sept. 6, 2011. Pope Francis has invited young economists and entrepreneurs to take part in an initiative to be launched in Assisi March 26-28, 2020. The initiative seeks to find new ways to do business, promote human dignity and protect the environment. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope invites young people to pledge to build a new economy

Carol Glatz
May 13, 2019
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Pope Francis has invited young economists and entrepreneurs around the world to help create a “new and courageous culture” that finds new ways to do business, promote human dignity and protect the environment.

Sister Carmen Sammut, superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and the outgoing president of the International Union of Superiors General, gives her address alongside Pope Francis during a meeting of the organization at the Vatican May 10, 2019, at the Vatican. Sister Carmen and other members were in Rome for the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General, which represents more than 450,000 women religious in more than 100 countries. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

Pope discusses deaconesses, need for nuns to be servants not ‘maids’

Carol Glatz
May 12, 2019
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Pope Francis told the heads of women’s religious orders from around the world they need to send sisters on assignments that truly serve the church and those in need, and not agree to requests for “maids.”

Archdiocesan leaders respond to pope’s reforms on accountability

Christopher Gunty
May 9, 2019
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Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori welcomed Pope Francis’ May 9 document clarifying and revising norms and procedures for holding bishops and religious superiors accountable in protecting minors as well as in protecting members of religious orders and seminarians from abuse.
“I welcome his motu proprio, ‘Vos Estis Lux Mundi’(‘You Are the Light of the World’), which creates new church law establishing uniform and universal requirements for allegations of child sexual abuse, as well as for those who abuse their authority, including bishops,” Archbishop Lori said.

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