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Two people comfort Joseph Culver of Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12 as he kneels at a late night vigil to pay his respects for a friend injured in a car attack on counter-protesters rallying against white nationalists. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, condemned the violence and hatred and offered prayers for the family and loved ones of the person who was killed, and for all those who were injured. (CNS photo/Jim Bourg, Reuters)

Archbishop Lori joins bishops’ call for peace in wake of deadly white nationalist rally

Rhina Guidos
August 14, 2017
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“We must all work together to end the scourge of racism,” Archbishop William E. Lori said, “and unite for the common good of all. Racism must be countered with love and respect.”

A woman cries after a supporter of government opposition leader Raila Odinga was killed by riot police during protests Aug. 9 in Nairobi, Kenya. Protesters and police in Kenya have clashed after the leader of the opposition claimed he was cheated of victory by a hacking attack that he said manipulated the results in the country's presidential election. At least five people have been killed. (CNS photo/Marius Bosch, Reuters)

Kenyan bishops urge calm as opposition rejects early results 

Catholic News Service
August 11, 2017
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Catholic bishops in Kenya called for calm in the East Africa nation, as pockets of violent post-election protests left at least five dead in opposition strongholds. 

A view shows a Pyongyang city mass rally Aug. 10 in North Korea's Kim Il Sung Square. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, an adviser to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, says dialogue is needed in the U.S.-North Korea crisis. (CNS photo/KCNA via Reuters)

Ex-Vatican diplomat: U.S., North Korea must return to negotiating table

Junno Arocho Esteves
August 10, 2017
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The United States and North Korea must return to the negotiating table and focus on improving the quality of life of their people rather than on the might of their advanced weaponry, according to Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, former Vatican representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva.

George Weigel, who wrote a biography of Blessed John Paul II, speaks at a press conference at the Vatican April 25, 2014. At right is Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (April 25, 2014)

Weigel’s new book recounts “unexpected” connection to St. John Paul II

Christopher Gunty
August 10, 2017
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How did a Baltimore boy get connected to Pope John Paul II, and how did he come to write “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II,” published in the fall of 1999, and “The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy.” Listen to George Weigel talk about his new book, “Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II,” on “Catholic Baltimore.

Navy chaplain
Father David J. Hammond, a Navy chaplain, is pictured aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard in 2016. Father Hammond offered Mass Aug. 6 in the ship's Star of the Sea Chapel just hours after a U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed off the east coast of Australia, killing three Marines. Father Hammond prayed for the victims, survivors and their families. (CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese for the Military services) See NAVY-CHAPLAIN-MARINES Aug. 9, 2017.

Chaplain offers Mass aboard ship for Marines killed in crash of Osprey

Catholic News Service
August 10, 2017
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Just hours after a Marine aircraft crashed off the east coast of Australia, killing three Marines, a U.S. Catholic chaplain serving on the USS Bonhomme Richard offered a Mass and prayers Aug. 6 for the victims, the survivors and their families.

Following intense therapy following a catastrophic swimming accident in 2015, Archer Senft exhibits digital art he created at the Monument Sotheby’s International Realty gallery on Roland Avenue, in Baltimore in July. Senft will major in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Cathedral parishioner’s post-injury art includes brand launch

Erik Zygmont
August 9, 2017
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Two years after life-changing accident, Cathedral parishioner continues to add to his art portfolio.

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