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BALTIMORE — Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore joined faith leaders from across the city June 3 to pray for peace and healing after more than a week of nationwide protests and unrest in response to the May 25 death of George Floyd while in police custody.
WASHINGTON — Father Michael McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, may be an ideal prospective saint for the current age, said Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the international fraternal order.
When asked what it’s like to be 100 years old, Nancy Millard said, “I haven’t found out yet." Right around 5 p.m. on her 100th birthday, her usually quiet neighborhood in North Arlington was shaken up by loud sirens and flashing lights. A caravan of vehicles blaring sirens, tooting horns and shouting greetings snaked down the street for several blocks.
WASHINGTON — To celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, the seminary has released a CD of its choir singing motets and liturgical pieces.
BEIJING — Catholics are upset about a directive from China's communist government asking priests to "preach on patriotism" as a condition for reopening liturgical services, suspended earlier this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Until June 1, no Catholic bishop had publicly participated in "taking a knee" — a gesture to publicly protest police brutality — but that day, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, became the first. Surrounded by priests from his diocese who also kneeled with him and holding a "Black Lives Matter" sign, he put both knees on the grass at El Paso's Memorial Park, where a protest had taken place a day earlier and closed his eyes.
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis as a white officer knelt on his neck for an extended time, drew sorrow and anger across the United States, spawning nationwide protests against police brutality and societal racism in its wake.
Even as sanctuaries across the country closed their doors to stop the spread of the coronavirus, a sacred space in Jasper, Indiana, remained accessible. Encircled by shrines depicting the mysteries of the rosary with a 12-foot-tall manmade cave as the centerpiece, the town's outdoor Geode Grotto became a refuge even from the fear of airborne viruses.
A moral crisis
If you ever have to wager your last nickel on which passage in the Bible is the most famous and best loved of all, bet on John 3:16. We hear it read in our very brief Gospel reading, “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so that all who believe in him might not perish, but might have eternal life.” Since we celebrate Trinity Sunday this week, focus particularly on the first words of that passage, “God so loved the world, that he gave.” Love is nothing other than giving. The very definition of love is to will the good of another person, entirely for their own sake. Our belief in the Trinity teaches us that such total, unconditional, self-sacrificing love is God's very identity. Our Lord’s words challenge us to make that love our identity as well.