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Rain, sun and rainbows mark eucharistic pilgrimage stops in Anne Arundel County Katie V. Jones June 11, 2026 While a thunderstorm greeted everyone as they arrived at St. Mary, only a few raindrops were falling when the eucharistic procession to the State House began. Singing songs and saying prayers in both English and Spanish, participants waved white flags, carried signs saying “Jesus, I Love You” and smiled at those gathered to watch the procession.
Calvert Hall announces construction project Catholic Review Staff June 11, 2026 Calvert Hall College High School and The Huffman Family Foundation have announced the start of construction on a new $800,000 renovation project that will reimagine existing space in Keelty Hall as a modern hub for academics and athletics.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage features a blessing for Baltimore from atop the Washington Monument George P. Matysek Jr. June 10, 2026 From one of Baltimore’s most iconic landmarks, the Eucharist was lifted in prayer over the city as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage arrives in Maryland Katie V. Jones June 10, 2026 With the theme, “One Nation Under God,” the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage arrived in the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 9 at the site of the nation’s first monument to George Washington – a stoic stone tower just off the Appalachian Trail in Middletown.
$70B immigration-enforcement funds exclude bishops-supported migrant protections Kate Scanlon June 11, 2026 President Donald Trump signed legislation June 10 providing $70 billion to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.
Child protection, sainthood causes, World Youth Day on US bishops’ spring meeting agenda Julie Asher June 11, 2026 Headlining the June 10 public session of the U.S. bishops’ spring plenary in Orlando were addresses by the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the new apostolic nuncio to the United States, along with a preliminary presentation on proposed updates to the bishops’ landmark document on protection policies for children and minors.
Pope Leo blesses Sagrada Familia’s Tower of Jesus, says beauty can lead people to God Courtney Mares June 11, 2026 Pope Leo XIV blessed the newly completed Tower of Jesus Christ at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica June 10, inaugurating the crowning spire that makes the iconic church the tallest Catholic church the world and urging people to lift their gaze to Christ “who alone reveals to us the truth about God and the truth about ourselves.”
‘Peace cannot be attained without mercy,’ Pope Leo tells global congress in Lithuania’s capital Katarzyna Szalajko June 10, 2026 As Catholics from around the world gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the sixth World Apostolic Congress on Mercy, Pope Leo XIV said the world’s growing need for peace cannot be separated from mercy, urging believers to become witnesses of God’s compassion in a time marked by war, violence and uncertainty.
Special delivery Rita Buettner June 10, 2026 I know there are people who say that a child learns best when they need to deal with the consequences. But I think there are enough hard consequences in life. The lessons I want to teach my children are to respond with compassion.
The strength of Jimmy Lai and the weakness of Emperor Xi George Weigel June 10, 2026 What can his fellow Catholics do for Jimmy Lai at the moment? We can hold him in prayer every day. We can urge the Administration to continue to press for Jimmy’s release and we can urge our representatives and senators to press the Administration to keep pressing the Chinese regime.
Question Corner: What does it mean if a couple is asked to ‘live as brother and sister’ during an annulment process? Jenna Marie Cooper June 9, 2026 If the original marriage is presumed to be a true and binding one, then living as a married person with a new spouse is technically committing adultery — even if most divorced and remarried people wouldn’t subjectively experience it this way.
Why the bishops are consecrating the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Archbishop Thomas Wenski June 9, 2026 In linking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with the devotion to the Sacred Heart, the bishops invite us to reflect with gratitude on the blessings God has bestowed on our nation but, at the same time, devotion to the Sacred Heart demands that we consider how we might foster truth, justice and charity in American life.
Mother Cabrini: First U.S. citizen canonized a saint dedicated life to New York’s Italian immigrants Russell Shaw June 6, 2026 The heroic love of God and neighbor that motivated her was formally recognized in 1946 when Frances Cabrini was declared a saint. That made her the first U.S. citizen to be canonized — even though she remained, in the words of a historian, “Italian … to the very marrow of her bones.”
