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Have you ever wondered about the background of religious art? A tour, offered through Adventures for Creative Tourists, brings focus to the religious art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Harrisburg Bishop Ronald W. Gainer Aug. 1 released information from the diocese's own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse.

Over the past weeks I, alongside so many others, have been deeply upset to hear of credible and substantiated allegations of sexual abuse by then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. As more accusations have come forward, with stunning similarity and detail, Cardinal McCarrick offered his resignation from the College of Cardinals. Pope Francis directed now-Archbishop McCarrick to live in private, observing prayer and penance until a canonical trial is carried out.  

In these weeks of summer, the church brings to our attention the very special teaching of Jesus in chapter 6 of St. John’s Gospel. This Sunday, we find crowds of satisfied people who are ready to be satisfied again.

The remains of St. Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, will be transferred from the crypt under the chapel of St. Elizabeth Convent, the congregation's Bensalem motherhouse, in the coming weeks to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation from the College of Cardinals of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, and has ordered him to maintain "a life of prayer and penance" until a canonical trial examines accusations that he sexually abused minors.

Trading their albs for T-shirts and shorts on the first sunny day in a week, diocesan altar servers attended the annual altar server picnic at Lake Fairfax Park in Reston July 26. 

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