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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador attends a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City July 22, 2019. Mexican Catholic leaders have expressed unease with the president's plans of Lopez Obrador to publish a booklet promoting morals. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

Mexican bishops won’t distribute government morals guide

David Agren
July 25, 2019
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The promotion of morals and values should start with families, Mexican Catholic leaders said.

Mary Kohler, a volunteer with Wellspring of Life Farm, introduces a St. John the Evangelist, Long Green Valley, vacation Bible school participant to "Ami," an 18-year-old therapy horse, during a July 10 visit at the Hydes parish. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Vacation Bible school: No lions, tigers and bears, but horses, games, snacks – and Scripture

Kevin J. Parks
July 25, 2019
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As Cherry Hill, Hydes and Linthicum Heights show, the concept of Vacation Bible School encompasses many approaches and activities.

Demonstrators pray during ongoing protests calling for the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rossello in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 21, 2019. Rossello said July 21 that he will not resign in the face of public furor over an obscenity-laced online chat deriding gays, women and others that was leaked. He said he will not seek reelection or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party. (CNS photo/Gabriella N. Baez, Reuters)

Puerto Rican governor’s actions set off ‘time bomb,’ bishop says

Junno Arocho Esteves
July 24, 2019
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The president of the Puerto Rican bishops’ conference said the actions of Gov. Ricardo Rossello and his administration were the final straw for residents of the U.S. commonwealth who have suffered through years of financial mismanagement, corruption and the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Maria. In a telephone interview with Catholic News […]

Irish golfer Shane Lowry poses with his wife, Wendy, and daughter, Iris, after winning the British Open July 21, 2019, in Portrush, Northern Ireland. The 32-year-old Irishman held on through a wet and windy day at Royal Portrush to beat Tommy Fleetwood by six strokes and win his first major. (CNS photo/Petter Arvidson, pool via Reuters)

‘Tremendous excitement’ in Ireland parish of British Open winner Shane Lowry

Catholic News Service
July 24, 2019
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British Open golf champion Shane Lowry was an altar server at St. Brigid in Clara, a small town in the Republic of Ireland.

Father Donald Sterling, pastor of New All Saints in Liberty Heights, center, is among the priests processing into Historic St. Francis Xavier July 22 for a Mass honoring jubilarians at the Joint Conference of Black priests, religious women, deacons and seminarians. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Black clergy, religious women soak up Baltimore history at joint conference

Paul McMullen
July 23, 2019
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The gathering began with a Mass honoring jubilarians at Historic St. Francis Xavier, the first Black Catholic church in the United States.

Auxiliary Bishop Mark E. Brennan signs the Book of the Elect during the Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion liturgy at St. John Neumann Church in Annapolis Feb. 18, 2018. Pope Francis named Bishop Brennan July 23 as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Bishop Brennan prepares to address issues in West Virginia

Christopher Gunty
July 23, 2019
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Bishop Mark E. Brennan, named by Pope Francis July 23 as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., acknowledged that he will face difficulties in his new post.
The diocese encompasses the whole state of West Virginia, home to some of the poorest people in the country and an epicenter for the opioid crisis.
“I have to just get to know the people and the places and get there.”

Bishop Mark E. Brennan was named July 23 by Pope Francis as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston. (Kevin J. Parks | CR Staff)

Bishop Brennan named to lead Wheeling-Charleston diocese

Christopher Gunty
July 23, 2019
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Pope Francis named Bishop Mark E. Brennan as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which encompasses the state of West Virginia. The July 23 announcement was publicized in Washington, D.C., by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

He will become the ninth bishop of the diocese, which had been the Diocese of Wheeling from its founding in 1850 until 1962, when it became the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.

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