A group of 20 local high school students donated a week of their summer vacation to help brighten the days for strangers in need.

In recent weeks, Western states such as Arizona, California, Oregon and Nevada have all posted record-breaking heat — but in the East, North Carolina and Maryland have also shattered records.

We need ritual in our lives. Mass is a ritual, which means that through the repetition of prayers, movements, and the changing of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, we are formed, disciplined and consoled.

One of Poland’s most influential prelates has been asked to stay on beyond retirement by Pope Francis, days after the Vatican suspended his orders dismissing a prominent pastor and naming an overseer of the finances of the prominent Wawel Cathedral chapter in a dispute with local Catholics.

Charles Louis “Chuck” Bauermann’s accounting acumen and imagination helped the Cathedral Foundation that once oversaw the Catholic Review to include new publishing and consulting ventures.