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Debris and a damaged house are seen following a tornado in Beauregard, Ala., March 3, 2019. At least 23 people were confirmed dead in Lee County, Ala. (CNS photo/Scott Fillmer via Reuters)

Catholic Charities is ‘ready to be a part of’ Alabama tornado recovery

Catholic News Service
March 5, 2019
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With search and rescue efforts underway for the tornado that whipped through Alabama and other parts of the South March 3, Mobile Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi asked for prayers for “those who lost their lives and their loved ones as well as those who have lost homes and businesses.”

Glyndon L. Bailey, local chairman of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, was honored for his leadership at the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s 40th annual Social Ministry Convocation at Mercy High School March 2. (Rus VanWestervelt/Special to the Review)

Celebrating 40 years, Social Ministry Convocation seeks more from young Catholics

Rus VanWestervelt
March 4, 2019
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The urgent call to bring young Catholics into the social justice movement was clear March 2 at Mercy High School, site of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s 40th annual Social Ministry Convocation.

Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, is pictured in this undated photo. Pope Francis announced March 4 that all the documents on Pope Pius in the Vatican Secret Archives will be made available to researchers starting March 2, 2020. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope announces access to wartime documents in Vatican Secret Archives

Carol Glatz
March 4, 2019
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Declaring that the Catholic Church is unafraid of history, Pope Francis announced that documents in the Vatican Secret Archives relating to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII will be open to scholars in 2020.

A young Augustus Tolton, who later became a priest, is portrayed in the movie "Across," written and directed by filmmaker Chris Foley of Nashville, Tenn. The short film tells the story of Father Tolton, who was the first African-American priest ordained for a U.S. diocese and who is a candidate for sainthood. (CNS photo/courtesy Chris Foley & Bolder Pictures)

Chicago bishop ‘touched emotionally’ by film on Father Tolton’s boyhood, family

Robert Alan Glover
March 3, 2019
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Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry, postulator of Father Augustus Tolton’s sainthood cause, said he was “touched emotionally” by the portrayal of the African-American priest’s boyhood and family life in the new short film “Across.”

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