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Archdiocese Updates its Online List of Abusive Priests with Names Disclosed in PA Grand Jury Report

Archdiocese of Baltimore
September 7, 2018
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Baltimore, MD, September 7, 2018 – The Archdiocese of Baltimore has added 10 names to its list of priests and religious brothers accused of child sexual abuse. The new names are those of priests mentioned in the Pennsylvania grand jury report released Aug. 14 who served in the Archdiocese of Baltimore or were alleged to have […]

Partners in Excellence scholar alumna Alexis Watson at the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Partners in Excellence scholarship breakfast at the Legg Mason Tower in Baltimore Sept. 6. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Mount St. Mary’s product: PIE scholarship ‘changed my life’

Paul McMullen
September 7, 2018
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Alexis Watson is employed by the Mount as a program coordinator in alumni engagement, and already knows her way around development and marketing, having served as the face of its “Live Significantly” campaign during the previous school year, which put her on radio, TV and billboards. None of that would have happened, according to Watson, without the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Partners in Excellence (PIE) scholarship program.

Missing columns are brought to life by rings of cloth threads at an archaeological site adjacent to the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the walls is pictured in Rome Sept. 6. The site contains the remains of structures from late antiquity and the medieval period that were built near the shrine to St. Paul. Unearthed between 2007-2009, the site has recently been upgraded with better lighting and cosmetic changes to improve the appearance. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Shining a light on St. Paul: Archaeological site renovated

Carol Glatz
September 6, 2018
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Turning an archaeological discovery into an appealing, informative site for tourists takes more than just digging interesting remains and ruins out of the dirt.

Weather permitting, Mass at the St. Peter at the Lake Center in Garrett County includes outdoor seating. (Emily Rosenthal/CR Staff)

Inside and out, lake vacationers revel in Deep Creek Mass

Emily Rosenthal Alster
September 6, 2018
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McHENRY – Massgoers happily overflow St. Peter at the Lake Center. Both sides of the nine-year-old building, a mile east of Deep Creek Lake, are lined with sliding glass doors followed by a row of benches. Beyond that is a pasture where people can unfold lawn chairs, and parents roam with antsy children.

Debra Messing and John Cho, center right, star in a scene from the movie "Searching." 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/Sony)

Movie Review: ‘Searching’

John Mulderig
September 5, 2018
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NEW YORK (CNS) — Those on the lookout for an above-average thriller boasting both surprising plot developments and upright basic values will probably be pleased with “Searching” (Screen Gems). While it’s handled discreetly, however, at least one of the many twists and turns taken by director and co-writer Aneesh Chaganty’s gripping feature debut — penned […]

Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, leaves the opening session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 6, 2014. Cardinal Stella said the current abuse crisis facing the church would not have been so grave if laity were more involved in the formation of priests. (CNS photoPaul Haring) See CLERICALISM-ABUSE-STELLA Sept. 5, 2018.

Laity must have role in fighting clericalism, Vatican official says

Junno Arocho Esteves
September 5, 2018
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Clericalism has led to a distorted view of authority that has contributed to the problems of sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience affecting the Catholic Church, said the head of the Vatican’s clergy office. Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, said the crisis facing the […]

A time to repent

Archbishop William E. Lori
September 5, 2018
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The ongoing sexual abuse crisis in the Church has hit us with full force following the revelations concerning Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, and the Pennsylvania grand jury report. Once again, we were confronted with a tsunami of evil: the evil of those who perpetrated unspeakable crimes against children and young people; and […]

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