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Fortnight for Freedom 2017

Timothy Murphy
June 8, 2017

“The Second Vatican Council gave the world, ‘Dignitatis Humanae,’ a document that explains why religious freedom is important. First, it speaks agains government coercion. It makes an even more important point that the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the inherent dignity of each person; and that each person, endowed with reason and […]

Oliver Avaritt, a parishioner of Ss. Philip and James in Baltimore, is working with the Labouré Society to pay down his student debt before he enters the Dominicans. (Erik Zygmont/CR Staff)

The big payback: Aspiring priest tackles student debt

Erik Zygmont
June 7, 2017
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With a degree in neuroscience and a job as a research assistant at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Oliver Avaritt had his life pretty well in order when he decided to hand it over to God and join the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph.

Archbishop William E. Lori consecrates a new altar at Church of the Ascension in Halethorpe May 28. (Christopher Gunty/CR Staff)

Renovations, new altar dedicated at Church of the Ascension

Christopher Gunty
June 6, 2017
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“We’ve got a consecrated altar now,” Father John Williamson, exclaimed to a parishioner greeting him in the narthex of the Church of the Ascension after a Mass May 28 in which the altar was blessed and the new sanctuary was dedicated.

President Donald Trump enters the Rose Garden at the White House June 1. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters)

President takes travel ban battle to U.S. Supreme Court – and Twitter

Rhina Guidos
June 6, 2017

In a series of tweets June 5, U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to express frustration with his own lawyers’ efforts to push forward with a revised version of a plan that seeks to temporarily ban travelers and refugees from certain majority Muslim countries, and said the lawyers “should have stayed with the original travel ban.”

Conventual Franciscan Father Berard Dudek was a former pastor of St. Casimir in Canton.

Father Dudek, former pastor of St. Casimir, dies at 89

Catholic Review Staff
June 6, 2017
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A funeral Mass for Conventual Franciscan Father Berard Dudek will be offered June 8 at 11 a.m. at St. Casimir Church in Baltimore. A Baltimore native who died June 4 at age 89, Father Dudek served three stints at the parish and had a number of other assignments in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

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