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A protester holds a sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court June 27, 2019, after the court ruled on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The 5-4 ruling, which was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined in part by the other justices, said the Trump administration's reason for adding the citizenship question "seems to have been contrived." (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

Supreme Court stops citizenship question in census, for now

Carol Zimmermann
June 28, 2019

The Supreme Court, for now, blocked the Trump administration’s added citizenship question to the 2020 census, sending the case back to a lower court.

Father Graham Keep led a large contingent from the Elgin County Family of Parishes in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, to the ChristLife National Training Conference at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ellicott City June 26. Seated, from left, are Wendy Vergeer, Maureen Bedek and Laura Lee. Standing, from left are Penny Rice, Loretta Bray, Father Keep, Bob Bray and Cheryl Muma. (Rus VanWestervelt/Special to the Review)

From Canada to Malaysia, ChristLife draws evangelists to Baltimore Archdiocese

Rus VanWestervelt
June 27, 2019
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Faithful from 17 states and as far as from Malaysia came to Ellicott City for training in evangelization.

Kana Achot fills bowls with food in an emergency feeding program for malnourished children at the Loreto Girls School in Rumbek, South Sudan, April 18, 2018. Addressing participants in the 41st session of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization conference June 27, 2019, Pope Francis said “the goal of zero hunger worldwide remains a great challenge.” (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

Indifference, apathy at heart of hunger crisis, pope says

Catholic News Service
June 27, 2019
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Pope Francis spoke out against the indifference, apathy and broken promises that allow the scourge of hunger to continue.

Cardinal Raymond L. Burke walks in the ninth national March for Life in Rome May 18, 2019. He resigned from the Dignitatis Humanae Institute June 25, saying it had become “more and more identified with the political program” of Steve Bannon. (CNS photo/courtesy Marcia per la Vita)

Cardinal Burke cuts ties with institute, citing its alignment with Bannon

Catholic News Service
June 27, 2019
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Cardinal Burke resigned from the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, saying it has become “more and more identified with the political program” of Steve Bannon.

Himesh Patel stars in a scene from the movie "Yesterday." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Universal)

Movie Review: ‘Yesterday’

John Mulderig
June 26, 2019
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Fans of the lads from Liverpool will rejoice over the mostly amiable Beatles-themed comedy “Yesterday” (Universal). Parents of teens anxious to patronize the film, however, will have mixed feelings, given the lapses in behavior and language it includes.

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, are seen June 24, 2019, after they drowned in the Rio Grande in Matamoro, Mexico, while trying to reach the United States. (CNS photo/Reuters)

Pope saddened by drowning of migrant father, daughter at U.S. border

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 26, 2019
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Pope Francis was saddened after seeing photos of the lifeless bodies of a migrant father and his daughter who drowned near the U.S. border with Mexico, the Vatican said.

Participants attend a meeting sponsored by the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life in Rome June 13, 2019. The dicastery brought together representatives of lay movements and associations to review child protection policies. (CNS photo/courtesy Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life)

Purging silence: Vatican expands abuse prevention to lay movements

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 25, 2019
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Millions of Catholics live their faith through their association with lay movements and Catholic groups, but some also have lost their faith when they were sexually abused in those groups and felt they had nowhere to turn.

Death-row inmate Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi man tried six times for the shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store in Winona, Miss., in 1996, is pictured in a July 1, 2010, photo. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 21, 2019, to overturn Flowers' conviction, saying that by consistently keeping black jurors off the jury the local prosecutor violated the Constitution. (CNS photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections handout via Reuters)

Court overturns conviction of death-row inmate for jury selection bias

Catholic News Service
June 25, 2019
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The court reversed the 2010 conviction of Curtis Flowers, who had argued that the prosecutor, who is white, had prevented African Americans from serving as jurors in his case.

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