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Workers set a girder in place while rebuilding a bridge July 28 in Detroit. Labor Day, honoring U.S. workers, is observed Sept. 3 this year. (CNS photo/Jim West)

Bishop echoes pope: The poor’s plight is ‘the Gospel, pure and simple’

Mark Pattison
September 2, 2018
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In the bishops’ annual Labor Day statement, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, said the recent economic news may not “give an entirely accurate account of the daily lives and struggles of working people, those who are still without work, or the underemployed struggling with low wages.”

Student Isaiah Black of Cleveland prepares a traditional French sauce tableside at Edwins Leadership and Restaurant Institute Aug. 14. The restaurant's six-month program prepares students recently released from prison for culinary careers. (CNS photo/Dennis Sadowski)

Restaurant’s culinary program helps former inmates achieve success

Dennis Sadowski
September 1, 2018
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Edwins — short for education wins — is a venture of Brandon Chrostowski, 38, a no-nonsense, hard-driving entrepreneur who saw a need to help people released from prison. He envisions eventually that Edwins will host the country’s best culinary school and provide well-trained chefs and servers to the city’s burgeoning local food scene.

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. The former nuncio has accused church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of abuse by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Former nuncio now says sanctions against McCarrick were ‘private’

Cindy Wooden
September 1, 2018
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States who called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly lifting sanctions placed on Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, now says those “sanctions” were “private” and neither he nor now-retired Pope Benedict XVI ever was able to enforce them.

In this 2015 file photo, Pope Francis raises the Eucharist as he celebrates the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. With him at the altar is Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. The Pennsylvania archbishop is asking the pope to call off the synod of bishops in Rome on the concerns of young people in the church, set for this October. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Archbishop Chaput to pope: Cancel youth synod, meet about bishops

Matthew Gambino
August 31, 2018
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Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is asking Pope Francis to call off the Synod of Bishops on young people this October to focus instead on the life of the bishops.

Archbishop William E. Lori is shown in a 2017 file photo. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Archbishop Lori meets with priests to hear concerns, offer support

George P. Matysek Jr.
August 31, 2018
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Archbishop William E. Lori met with more than 100 priests Aug. 28 at St. Margaret in Bel Air to offer his support and to listen to their concerns approximately two weeks after the release of the Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse.

Dr. Donna Hargens, superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, speaks at the Catholic Schools Convocation Aug. 30 at Church of the Nativity in Timonium. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

New superintendent excited about ‘Year of Service’

George P. Matysek Jr.
August 31, 2018
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Encouraging students to reach out to others through community service has always been a critical part of Catholic education. This year, however, helping others is getting even more attention as the Archdiocese of Baltimore has declared the 2018-19 school year a “Year of Service.”

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