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SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. — It's probably a pretty safe bet that everyone who gathers on the front lawn of Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains the evening of July 30 will be shouting, "Go Syd, Go!" as they watch star alumna Sydney McLaughlin compete in track and field at the Tokyo Olympics. 

BOSTON — The Boston Globe reported July 29 that police in the Boston suburb of Wellesley have charged former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 in a criminal complaint filed by Wellesley Police in a district court in nearby Dedham, Mass.

VATICAN CITY — Imagine a pilgrimage where the faithful gear up with scuba fins and oxygen tanks or snorkel sets rather than hiking boots, sun hats and trek poles. That's what happens in the crystal-clear waters of the Paradise Gulf along the Italian Riviera near Genoa.

Nearly buried last month in the hubbub surrounding the U.S. bishops’ debate over who is and isn’t worthy to receive Communion was a colloquy between two bishops concerning something that may prove of far greater importance in the long run. 

Well, you all keep me on my toes.

My friend Mrs. Berry used to say that a change is as good as a rest. In hindsight, I think this was her way of convincing herself that a vacation was restful despite the fact that every mother knows that family vacations (let’s just call them “family trips” instead) are usually a whole lot of the same work as at home, only in a different location with a bunch of people who are disoriented by changes in schedule and environment. A change is rarely anything like a rest.

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