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Himesh Patel stars in a scene from the movie "Yesterday." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Universal)

Movie Review: ‘Yesterday’

John Mulderig
June 26, 2019
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Fans of the lads from Liverpool will rejoice over the mostly amiable Beatles-themed comedy “Yesterday” (Universal). Parents of teens anxious to patronize the film, however, will have mixed feelings, given the lapses in behavior and language it includes.

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, are seen June 24, 2019, after they drowned in the Rio Grande in Matamoro, Mexico, while trying to reach the United States. (CNS photo/Reuters)

Pope saddened by drowning of migrant father, daughter at U.S. border

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 26, 2019
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Pope Francis was saddened after seeing photos of the lifeless bodies of a migrant father and his daughter who drowned near the U.S. border with Mexico, the Vatican said.

Participants attend a meeting sponsored by the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life in Rome June 13, 2019. The dicastery brought together representatives of lay movements and associations to review child protection policies. (CNS photo/courtesy Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life)

Purging silence: Vatican expands abuse prevention to lay movements

Junno Arocho Esteves
June 25, 2019
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Millions of Catholics live their faith through their association with lay movements and Catholic groups, but some also have lost their faith when they were sexually abused in those groups and felt they had nowhere to turn.

Death-row inmate Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi man tried six times for the shooting deaths of four people in a furniture store in Winona, Miss., in 1996, is pictured in a July 1, 2010, photo. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 21, 2019, to overturn Flowers' conviction, saying that by consistently keeping black jurors off the jury the local prosecutor violated the Constitution. (CNS photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections handout via Reuters)

Court overturns conviction of death-row inmate for jury selection bias

Catholic News Service
June 25, 2019
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The court reversed the 2010 conviction of Curtis Flowers, who had argued that the prosecutor, who is white, had prevented African Americans from serving as jurors in his case.

Archbishop William E. Lori, center, and three auxiliary bishops welcomed three new priests into the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 22 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. Pictured, from left, are Bishop Mark Brennan, Father Matt Himes, Father Tyler Kline, Father Matt DeFusco, Bishop Adam Parker and Bishop Denis J. Madden. (Rick Lippenholz/Special to the Review)

‘Indescribable joy’ as three men ordained to the priesthood in Baltimore

Emily Rosenthal Alster
June 24, 2019
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Fathers Matt DeFusco, Matt Himes and Tyler Kline were ordained priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 22.

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