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Archdiocese Creates New Position in Continued Effort to Bolster Church’s Presence in the Community

Archdiocese of Baltimore
June 4, 2018
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The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced today that Mary Ellen Russell has been selected to serve as Director of Community Affairs.  Archbishop William E. Lori created the new position to assist the Archdiocese in building partnerships within and beyond the Catholic Church in Maryland to strengthen the Church’s service to local communities. Most notably through the […]

Pope Francis holds his pastoral staff as he celebrates Mass marking the feast of Corpus Christi in Ostia, a suburb of Rome, June 3. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) See POPE-CORPUS-CHRISTI June 3, 2018.

Pope: Seek Christ in ‘abandoned tabernacles’ of the poor, the lonely

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 4, 2018
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As he did with his disciples at Passover, Jesus asks all Christians to prepare a place for him, not in “exclusive, selective places” but rather in uncomfortable places that are “untouched by love, untouched by hope,” Pope Francis said.

A woman who attended a June 2 Mass at St. Paul in Ellicott City embraces Archbishop William E. Lori's hand at a Mass celebrated in solidarity with victims of the recent flooding in Ellicott City. (Richard Lippenholz/Special to the Catholic Review)

Archbishop Lori urges Ellicott City parishioners to help one another in flood aftermath

Christopher Gunty
June 2, 2018
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The archbishop encouraged the people to allow the eucharistic presence of Jesus to make them more present to one another and give themselves to one another, even in the most trying of times.

Robert F. Kennedy delivers an April 4, 1968, speech in Indianapolis announcing that the Rev. Martin Luther King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. A Catholic News Service review says the new Netflix documentary series "Bobby Kennedy for President" offers only a two-dimensional portrait of the slain presidential candidate on screen. (CNS photo/courtesy Kennedy King Memorial Initiative)

RFK’s faith three-dimensional in books, but two-dimensional on screen

Kurt Jensen
June 2, 2018
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A former altar boy who sometimes spoke of joining the priesthood, Kennedy’s faith, drawn inward after the 1963 assassination of his older brother the president — and somehow not diminished by a growing belief in existentialism — informed his political views and his compassion for the poor.

Pope Francis listens as Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, offers an explanation during the pope's visit to a new homeless shelter for men in Rome Oct. 15. Housed in a Jesuit-owned building, the shelter was created by and is run with funds from the papal almoner. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)

Pope picked fellow ‘street priest’ when he named his almoner a cardinal

Carol Glatz
June 1, 2018
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By elevating him to the College of Cardinals June 28, the pope is elevating the office of papal almoner, the 54-year-old liturgist told Vatican News May 20.

Italian journalist Nello Scavo is pictured in this undated photo. He is the author of "Fake Pope: The False News about Pope Francis." The Italian book compiles and debunks the most popular false news stories about the pope. (CNS photo/courtesy of publisher San Paolo)

Weapons of mass distraction: Journalist takes aim at fake papal news

Junno Arocho Esteves
May 31, 2018
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When the pope speaks unguardedly, “there is a risk that some of his expressions can be manipulated or interpreted incorrectly,” Italian journalist Nello Scavo told Catholic News Service.

Betty Gabriel and Logan Marshall-Green star in a scene from the movie "Upgrade." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. (CNS photo/Universal Pictures)

Movie Review: ‘Upgrade’

John Mulderig
May 31, 2018
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With its brief but excessively graphic scenes of bloodletting, the otherwise mildly interesting sci-fi thriller “Upgrade” (BH Tilt) skirts the outer boundaries of moral acceptability.

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