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Archbishop Announces Completion of Preliminary Investigation of Allegations Against Bishop Michael Bransfield, Imposes Ministerial Restrictions on Bishop Bransfield and Former Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Gordon Bennett, S.J.

Archdiocese of Baltimore
March 11, 2019

For Immediate Release Monday, March 11, 2019 On September 13, 2018, the Holy See announced the retirement of Michael J. Bransfield as Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia and appointed Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori as Apostolic Administrator of Wheeling-Charleston, with a mandate to conduct a preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual […]

Corn is seen in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, in this 2009 file photo. Three years of drought in Central America have destroyed crops of corn and beans, leaving families starving and causing Guatemala to declare a true state of emergency, said Catholic Relief Services officials. (CNS photo/Daniel Leclair, Reuters)

Guatemalans hit by three years of drought among those CRS Rice Bowl helps

Jo Ann Zuniga
March 10, 2019
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These past three years of drought in Central America have destroyed crops of corn and beans, leaving families starving and causing Guatemala to declare a true state of emergency, said Catholic Relief Services officials.

Monsignor Thomas Baumgartner, a former pastor of Blessed Sacrament in Baltimore, St. Pius X in Rodgers Forge and St. Ursula in Parkville, died March 4 at age 88. (CR file)

Monsignor Baumgartner, former pastor who ‘epitomized’ a Vatican II priest, dies at 88

Emily Rosenthal Alster
March 8, 2019
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Monsignor A. Thomas Baumgartner, a former pastor of three Baltimore-area parishes who was known for his commitment to the priesthood and his enthusiastic embrace of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, died March 4 at age 88.

Pope Francis hears the confession of a priest March 7, 2019, at Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. The pope administered the sacrament to several priests during his annual Lenten meeting with the priests of the Diocese of Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope: God is purifying the church with ‘unbearable’ pain of abuse scandal

Cindy Wooden
March 8, 2019
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The clerical abuse scandal has caused everyone in the Catholic Church “pain and unbearable suffering,” Pope Francis said, but it also is a call to repentance and the renewal of the church.

The fish fry has become a savory staple of parish fellowship during Lent. In New Orleans, several parishes vary their menus each Friday, with such offerings as shrimp and okra, blackened catfish, shrimp and grits, shrimp pasta Alfredo, crab and corn bisque, and, for the healthy eater, even grilled redfish. (CNS photo/Frank J. Methe, Clarion Herald)

‘Pea toast’ and other sacrifices

Christopher Gunty
March 7, 2019
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We fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstain from meat on the other Fridays of the season, but it’s not much of a sacrifice to splurge on lobster instead of beef as a Lenten meal.

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