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Seven of the nine new principals serving in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are shown outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are: front row (left to right) Valerie Sandoval, Archbishop Borders School, Highlandtown; Sister Susan Louise Eder, O.S.F.S., Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Baynesville; Heather Cucuzzella, Immaculate Conception School, Towson; back row (left to right) Rosanna Rensberger , Resurrection-St. Paul School, Ellicott City; Dr. Kathleen Kilty, Mother Seton School, Emmitsburg; Matthew Malone, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Ellicott City; and, Anna Shanahan, St. Margaret School, Bel Air Other new principals are pictured below. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

New leaders to see Baltimore Archdiocese schools into 2020s

Erik Zygmont
August 21, 2019
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Nine Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore have new principals for the 2019-20 school year. They include the first lay leaders of elementary schools in Frederick and Howard counties, and a new order of women religious providing direction at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Baynesville.

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, Ontario, right, holds a bottle of holy water while blessing a crowd of people during a prayer vigil outside The Koven nightclub in Ottawa, prior to a satanic black mass on Aug. 17, 2019. About 200 people held the prayer vigil as a satanic black mass occurred Aug. 17 at a heavy metal club in the Canadian capital. (CNS photo/John Pacheco, The Catholic Register)

Prayers greet people attending so-called black mass in Canadian capital

Deborah Gyapong
August 21, 2019
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About 200 people, most clutching a rosary, held a prayer vigil as a satanic black mass occurred Aug. 17 at a heavy metal club in the Canadian capital.

Australian Cardinal George Pell arrives at the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne Aug. 21, 2019. An Australian appeals court upheld the conviction of Cardinal Pell on five counts of sexually assaulting two choirboys more than two decades ago. (CNS photo/AAP Images, Erik Anderson via Reuters)

Appeals court upholds Cardinal Pell conviction on abuse charges

Catholic News Service
August 21, 2019
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An Australian appeals court upheld the conviction of Cardinal George Pell on five counts of sexually assaulting two choirboys more than two decades ago.

Colin Miller, from left, Father James Boric, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Nathan Belk, walk along Charles Street Aug. 19 as part of their urban ministry outreach in Baltimore. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Basilica missionaries bringing Jesus to city streets

Christopher Gunty
August 20, 2019
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Colin Miller and Nathan Belk are spending their days walking through the streets of downtown Baltimore. They have a backpack in which they might carry some clean pairs of socks for a homeless person or a bottle of water. But they are also carrying with them the word of God and the presence of Christ.

A man is silhouetted in front of St. Ignatius of Loyola Church in Santiago, Chile June 13, 2018. Pope Francis praised the opening of the Center for Investigation of Abuse and Early Prevention at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in an Aug. 15, 2019, video for the occasion. (CNS photo/Rodrigo Garrido, Reuters)

Pope applauds launch of abuse investigation center in Chile

Junno Arocho Esteves
August 20, 2019
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A specialized center at Chile’s premier Catholic university can help the Catholic Church protect minors and vulnerable persons from the scourge of clerical sexual abuse, which has plagued the Catholic Church in the country and around the world, Pope Francis said.

Planned Parenthood employees stand outside the facility during protests in St. Louis May 31, 2019. (CNS photo/Lawrence Bryant, Reuters)

Planned Parenthood decides to withdraw from Title X program

Catholic News Service
August 20, 2019
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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America announced Aug. 19 it is withdrawing from the federal Title X program over the Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule” barring these funds from being used for promoting or providing abortion as family planning.

A goat consume buckthorn shrubs and other unwanted vegetation at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Appleton, Wis., July 13, 2019. Twelve goats help rid the cemetery of the invasive species of shrub, thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. (CNS photo/Brad Birkholz, for The Compass)

Voracious goats keep Wisconsin cemetery looking beautiful the natural way

Catholic News Service
August 19, 2019
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In early July, five goats arrived in the cemetery from a farm in nearby Black Creek. They’re helping tackle the cemetery’s problem with buckthorn, an aggressive, invasive species of shrub that had overtaken the cemetery’s riverbank.

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