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Bishop Ronald W. Gainer of Harrisburg, Pa., released information Aug. 1 from the diocese's own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse. Bishop Gainer is pictured in a 2012 photo at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

Names of former Harrisburg bishops will be removed from buildings

Catholic News Service
August 2, 2018
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Harrisburg Bishop Ronald W. Gainer Aug. 1 released information from the diocese’s own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse.

Vice President Mike Pence appears July 26 at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the State Department in Washington. The July 24-26 event was sponsored by the State Department. (CNS photo/Alex Wroblewski, Reuters)

Crimes, oppression against religion ‘span width of our world,’ says Pence

Steve Larkin
August 1, 2018
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In a speech at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, Vice President Mike Pence described the state of religious freedom around the world and the wide variety of attacks it faces.

Father James Boric, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, is leading an effort to keep the basilica open for longer hours and commission "urban missionaries." (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore Basilica launches plan to be ‘radically open’

George P. Matysek Jr.
July 31, 2018
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Leaders of the Baltimore Basilica are launching a plan to increase the hours the church is open, while simultaneously commissioning “urban missionaries” whose ministry will focus on developing relationships with people on the city’s streets.

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., chair of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty, speaks during a religious freedom event July 30 at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington. Among others also pictured are, closest to the podium, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Religious liberty ‘rooted in dignity of human person,’ says Archbishop Kurtz

Steve Larkin
July 31, 2018
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Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, gave three reasons why religious freedom is important to the Catholic Church in a speech July 30 at a conference on the issue at the Justice Department in Washington.

Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, Australia, leaves the Newcastle Local Court July 3. Pope Francis July 30 accepted the resignation of Archbishop Wilson, who had been found guilty by an Australian court of failing to inform police about child sexual abuse allegations. (CNS photo/Darren Pateman, AAP via Reuters)

Australian archbishop convicted of failure to report abuse resigns

Carol Glatz
July 30, 2018
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Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Philip Wilson, who had been found guilty by an Australian court of failing to inform police about child sexual abuse allegations.

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