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St. Wenceslaus parishioner Dwayne Coleman is a volunteer for the Lucielle Fitzgerald Outreach Center, a food pantry at the Baltimore parish that supports families in the surrounding neighborhood. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

East Baltimore man dedicated to parish, food bank

Emily Rosenthal Alster
April 11, 2018
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Dwayne Coleman uses his free time to volunteer at St. Wenceslaus in Baltimore and the parish’s Lucielle Fitzgerald Outreach Center, which will be re-dedicated April 21 at 10 a.m.

Pope Francis and hundreds of priests who are missionaries of mercy celebrate Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 10. The pope has continued the mandate of the missionaries of mercy. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Repentant sinners need merciful confessors, not inquisitors, pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves
April 11, 2018
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Pope Francis told 550 priests he designated as “missionaries of mercy” that being merciful in the confessional helps penitents return to God without fear, even if they repeatedly stumble or slip.

LEFT: This is part of the cover of the English edition of Pope Francis' exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate" ("Rejoice and Be Glad"), on the "call to holiness in today's world." (CNS photo/Vatican Media); RIGHT: Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar for the Diocese of Rome, holds a copy of Pope Francis' exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate" ("Rejoice and Be Glad"), as he leaves a news conference on the exhortation at the Vatican April 9. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

With new document, pope shows holiness is for everyone, speakers say

Carol Glatz
April 9, 2018
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Pope Francis is reminding Christians that the desired goal of their journey is true life, joy, meaning and fullness found in Jesus with the help of divine grace and the action of the Holy Spirit received in baptism.

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a canon lawyer and former head of the Vatican's supreme court, is pictured in a 2014 photo. While the pope has the fullness of authority and power in the Catholic Church, he can exercise that authority only in obedience to Christ, and if he does not, it is up to the Catholic faithful to object, said Cardinal Burke. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Catholic faithful must object if pope misuses authority, cardinal says

Cindy Wooden
April 9, 2018
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U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke to several hundred Catholics concerned about what they see as growing confusion in the Catholic Church, particularly because of the way Pope Francis opened the possibility for some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion.

Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar for the Diocese of Rome, holds a copy of Pope Francis' exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate" ("Rejoice and Be Glad"), during a news conference on the exhortation at the Vatican April 9. The document is on the "call to holiness in today's world." (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Holiness means being loving, not boring, pope says

Cindy Wooden
April 9, 2018
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God calls all Christians to be saints — not plastic statues of saints, but real people who make time for prayer and who show loving care for others in the simplest gestures, Pope Francis said in his new document on holiness.

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