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Panelist Archbishop William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore since 2012, answers a question during the 2019-20 Notre Dame Forum titled “‘Rebuild My Church’: Crisis and Response,” with a discussion on “The Church Crisis: Where Are We Now?” held at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Sept. 25. (Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame)

Archbishop Lori participates in Notre Dame expert panel on clergy sex abuse crisis

Ann Carey
September 26, 2019
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Archbishop Lori said the numbers of abuse cases are significantly down, “but one case is still too many.” He emphasized that it is necessary always to see the charter and norms not just as policies to be complied with. Rather, he said bishops and their coworkers need to have “a conversion of mind and heart.”

Retired Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St . Paul-Minneapolis died Sept. 22, 2019, in St. Paul at age 86. He is pictured in a Jan. 17, 2006, photo. (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, Catholic Spirit)

Archbishop Flynn, former rector of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, dies at 86

George P. Matysek Jr.
September 26, 2019
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Monsignor Farmer recalled that Archbishop Flynn often told Mount seminarians that the greatest work they would do as priests would involve the unexpected. That might involve hearing the confession of a stranger on a plane or answering a call in the middle of the night.

Nicole Gartrell, who teaches high school science, chemistry, physics and forensics at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Essex, reviews class safety rules with students the second day of the 2019-2020 school year. The lab was expanded and renovated over the summer to include state-of-the-art furniture providing flexible seating and collaborative learning, as well as tinted windows and wood-plank textured vinyl flooring. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School modernizes campus

Kevin J. Parks
September 26, 2019
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel School took a major leap into 21st century over the summer, in the process heeding the call of Pope Francis to become better stewards of the environment.

Pope Francis meets with Jesuits in Maputo, Mozambique, Sept. 5, 2019. One of the Jesuits asked Pope Francis how his experience of God has changed since he was elected pope in 2013; he replied that he has greater responsibilities now and his prayers of intercession include global concerns, but he is still a sinner who goes to confession every two weeks. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Being elected pope doesn’t wash away one’s sins, pope says

Cindy Wooden
September 26, 2019
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While his responsibilities are greater and his prayer list longer, Pope Francis said he’s basically the same person he was before he was elected in 2013, so he still goes to confession every two weeks.

Cardinal William J. Levada, the former archbishop of San Francisco and of Portland, Ore., and the retired prefect for the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, died in Rome Sept. 26, 2019, at age 83. He is is pictured in a Nov. 21, 2010, photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

U.S. Cardinal William Levada, former doctrinal head, dies in Rome

Catholic News Service
September 26, 2019
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U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation and retired archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, died Sept. 26 in Rome. He was 83.

A Guajajara "forest guardian" holds a gun as he prepares to search for illegal loggers on Arariboia indigenous territory near Amarante, Brazil, Sept. 10, 2019. A report released Sept. 24 from the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council shows the number of indigenous murdered last year increased by more than 20% in comparison to 2017. (CNS photo/Ueslei Marcelino, Reuters)

Violence against indigenous in Brazil soars, says bishops’ agency

Lise Alves
September 26, 2019
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Less than two weeks before the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon was scheduled to begin at the Vatican, the Brazilian bishops’ Indigenous Missionary Council reported that the number of indigenous land invasions and indigenous murdered in Brazil in 2018 soared.

A park adjacent to St. Vincent de Paul Church in downtown Baltimore has served as a refuge for homeless people. The park is shown in a 2018 file photo. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff

St. Vincent de Paul Parish temporarily closes park used by homeless 

Mary K. Tilghman
September 25, 2019
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St. Vincent de Paul Parish has closed the corner park adjacent to its downtown Baltimore church, forbidding visitors to sit or sleep there as has been the custom of people experiencing homelessness for many years. 

Raymond Gaviola, a parishioner of St. Francis de Sales in Abingdon, and Victoria Molnar play the prince and princess in a cultural dance on the plaza of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen during the Archdiocesan Filipino Saints Fiesta Celebration Sept. 22. (Rus VanWestervelt/Special to the Review)

Baltimore Archdiocese Filipino celebration brings another big crowd to cathedral

Rus VanWestervelt
September 25, 2019
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On the last full day of summer, nearly 2,000 people from across the Mid-Atlantic region turned out for the ninth annual Archdiocese of Baltimore Filipino Saints Fiesta Celebration at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Sept. 22.

Pope Francis receives a gift from children during a Sept. 24, 2019, visit to Cittadella Cielo ("Heaven's Citadel"), the headquarters of the New Horizons Community in Frosinone, Italy. The community is a lay movement that engages in evangelization and service to the disadvantaged, including young people dealing with addiction. (CNS photo/Vatican Media via Reuters)

God loves, rescues even those in the ‘hell’ of addiction, pope says

Cindy Wooden
September 25, 2019
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Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican Sept. 24 to spend the day with members of an Italian lay community, the young people in recovery they assist and tenor Andrea Bocelli.

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