Sister Mary-Pauline’s journey into religious life came about as she was helping others discern vocations in Africa. Serving as the coordinator of a vocations club in her home parish in Ghana, she researched religious communities for a girl who wanted to become a religious sister.

Conventual Franciscan Father Richard Rome was ordained June 8 at St. Casimir in Canton, joining the Our Lady of the Angels Province as its newest priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.

Promoted by Pope Francis, the additional year of formation focuses less on academics and more on cultivating virtue and a well-tuned prayer life – along with a sense of service and fraternity.

A $10 million project to open the Blessed Father Michael J. McGivney Propaedeutic House of Formation is nearing completion along Paca Street in Baltimore, with the first seminarians expected to arrive in August.

A funeral Mass will be offered June 13 in Arbutus for Oblate Sister of Providence Veronica de Los Santos, who died May 17. She was 89 and had been a member of the Oblate Sisters of Providence for 64 years.

Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with two of the permanent pilgrims on the Seton Route, Zoe Dongas and Amayrani Higueldo, to talk about their inspiration to make the 65-day pilgrimage and their experiences along the way.

“Even as beautiful as this place is, even as beautiful as any church or altar or tabernacle or sacred vessel, you were created to hold God and to be the vessel that carries him into the world,” Bishop Lewandowski said, “so that the world might know his loving presence, his grace, his goodness, his mercy and his salvation.”

As a stop on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, the cathedral hosted vespers and eucharistic preaching by Father Patalinghug, who switched from his robes to an apron to work in his Grace and Grub Food Truck as soon as the liturgy ended.

During a special June 2 Mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first Mass inside the completed church, Archbishop William E. Lori highlighted the faith community’s long history of welcoming others and its commitment to the Eucharist.

Archbishop William E. Lori described the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s June 6 stop at the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton as a “joyous” occasion.