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Rob Seifert, owner of Clean Image Facilities Management Services in Harford County, sprays an EPA approved disinfectant per CDC guidelines following the 4 pm Mass at St. Margaret Church in Bel Air. According to Seifert, the spray is specifically formulated for the coronavirus and will kill the virus in about 10-12 minutes once in comes in contact with the intended surface. St. Margaret Church, the school hall and St. Mary Magdalen Mission were professionally disinfected following each of the parish’s 12 Masses this past weekend. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Are our hearts ready to reopen?

Christopher Gunty
June 2, 2020
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You think it’s been hard for you to find disinfecting wipes for your home? Think of finding enough disinfectant for church pews that seat hundreds of people. You’ve had problems finding a small bottle of hand sanitizer? Multiply those needs by 100 or 1,000.

Protesters in Long Beach, Calif., demonstrate May 31, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minneapolis was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who later died at a hospital. (CNS photo/Patrick T. Fallon, Reuters)

Vatican official: Racism is ‘spiritual’ virus that must be wiped out

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 2, 2020
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Much like the coronavirus pandemic, racism is a “spiritual” virus that has spread throughout the world and must be eradicated, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

St. Joseph Church in Fullerton celebrated outdoor Mass on the parish soccer field May 31 as part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s reopening plan following months of quarantine due to the coronavirus. A combined 750 people attended the 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Masses. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Feast of Pentecost marks return of public worship in Baltimore Archdiocese

Paul McMullen
June 1, 2020
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Churches in Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford and Washington counties opened liturgies to the public, albeit at one-third capacity, per Archdiocese of Baltimore guidelines.

Protesters in Minneapolis gather at the scene May 27, 2020, where George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was pinned down by a police officer kneeling on his neck before later dying in hospital May 25. (CNS photo/Eric Miller, Reuters)

Louisville cathedral damaged as protests over Floyd death turn violent

Catholic News Service
May 31, 2020
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Windows of the Cathedral of the Assumption and its offices facing South Fifth Street in downtown Louisville were covered with plywood as a precaution May 30 after a second day of peaceful protests turned to violence and vandalism overnight.

Archbishop William E. Lori addresses local media on the steps of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland May 31 regarding the reopening of parishes for weekend Masses following new coronavirus guidelines, and continued racial tension following the highly publicized deaths of George Floyd in Mississippi and Ahmed Aubrey in Georgia. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Archbishop Lori: Holy Spirit should shake out complacency over racism

Christopher Gunty
May 31, 2020
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Archbishop William E. Lori harkened back to the first Pentecost when the Holy Spirit shook the house where Jesus’ disciples had gathered and came with a fire of charity to consume every false idol.

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