Fears are running extremely high that at the current pace of infection, with the number of cases and fatalities doubling every two weeks, the pandemic is headed for a peak by the end of July.
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Plowshares’ Liz McAlister ordered to pay restitution for naval base damage
Liz McAlister was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay restitution at the rate of $25 per month for the damage she and the other activists caused at the at the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.
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Jesuit rector to Salvadoran president: Show some accountability
Father Andreu Oliva, rector of the Jesuit Jose Simeon Canas Central American University in El Salvador, issued a blistering assessment of the first year in office for President Nayib Bukele.
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Bishop from Botswana writes farewell letter to friend George Floyd
Bishop Frank Nubuasah of Gaborone, Botswana, said he met Floyd in the early 1990s at a baseball game in Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, when Floyd was on a trip there.
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Pope prays for those still hit by COVID-19, urges caution elsewhere
In greeting the few hundred pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis urged people to remain careful and obey safety protocols since the coronavirus pandemic is far from over.
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Fordham’s Bryan Massingale: White Catholics need to sit with the discomfort of systemic racism
“Let it be agonizing, let it be overwhelming because frankly it’s agonizing for me, too. It’s overwhelming for me, too,” Father Bryan Massingale said.
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Tanzanian Catholic diocese works to protect girls from abuse
The Mara region of Tanzania, of which Musoma is the capital, has some of that country’s highest rates of child marriage and female genital mutilation, even though both are technically illegal in Tanzania.
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Hundreds line up for George Floyd’s memorial in Houston
Before Floyd’s casket arrived, workers outside the church assembled a large floral arrangement with white roses on one side in the shape of a heart and with the initials “BLM,” for Black Lives Matter.
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Vatican arrests businessman in shady London real estate deal
It’s the first arrest in a nearly yearlong investigation into the deal, which has convulsed the Vatican, raised questions about Pope Francis’ seven-year financial reform effort and exposed Machiavellian turf battles at the Holy See.
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Knights ask Catholics to pray novena for national unity, end to racism
“We ask all people to come together in solidarity to forge a path forward — free of discrimination and hate — for our nation,” said Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson.