By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Chilean bishop acknowledged the damage inflicted on survivors of clerical sex abuse and the mishandling of cases by church leaders in the country.

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The baptismal font is a tomb in which a person dies to sin, and it is a womb through which a person is born to new life in Christ, Pope Francis said.

By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During a quick morning visit to Tuscany, Pope Francis praised two lay communities there that are dedicated to living out the Gospel values of reciprocal love and cooperation.

Beaumont traffic boxes are being dressed as works of art and serving as inspiration to others throughout the community. What started as a plan to paint fewer than 20 murals has evolved into over 70 boxes, including one painted by Msgr.

By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope Francis, the subject of a new documentary by German filmmaker Wim Wenders, will appear on the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” in excerpts from the movie, “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.” CBS is airing a second hour of “60 Minutes” May 13.

WASHINGTON— La Secretaría de Laicos, Matrimonios, Vida Familiar y Juventud (LMFLY) de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos (USCCB), en colaboración con su Equipo Asesor Nacional Ad-Hoc sobre el Ministerio de Jóvenes Adultos, ofrecerá una Cumbre Nacional del Ministerio de Jóvenes Adultos del 15 al 17 de mayo de 2018 en el Santuario Nacional San Juan Pablo II en Washington, DC.

WASHINGTON—The USCCB Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth (LMFLY), in collaboration with its ad-hoc National Advisory Team on Young Adult Ministry, will offer a National Young Adult Ministry Summit May 15-17, 2018, at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. Over 130 pastoral leaders in the field of young adult ministry will attend, representing 53 Catholic archdioceses and dioceses, and 26 national organizations, movements, and apostolates.

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican has accused a former director of the Vatican bank and his lawyer of money laundering and embezzlement, saying the men skimmed an estimated 57 million euros (about $68 million) off profits from the sale of Vatican properties.

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For more than 50 years, the writings of retired Pope Benedict XVI on the relationship between faith and politics have insisted that the measure of human freedom is the extent to which each person acknowledges being dependent on the love of God, Pope Francis wrote.

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The bishops of Chile will be at the Vatican May 14-17 for meetings with Pope Francis to discuss their handling of clerical sex abuse allegations and, as Pope Francis had said, “to repair the scandal as much as possible and re-establish justice.” The pope called all the active bishops of the country to the meeting, but also invited retired bishops.

“We try to keep these simple, but meaningful,” Bishop Curtis Guillory, SVD, said at the Priests’ Anniversary Mass on May 10 at Our Mother of Mercy, Beaumont. This event marked the first Anniversary Mass in 17 years that has been held in a church.

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The German bishops are not the only bishops in the world to propose or adopt pastoral guidelines for allowing an Anglican or a Protestant married to a Catholic to receive the Eucharist under certain circumstances.

By Carol Glatz, Catholic New Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Baptism requires rejecting Satan and professing one’s full faith in God, Pope Francis said. Only by being able to say “no” to the devil, his works and empty promises “am I able to say ‘yes’ to God, who calls me to conform myself to him in thoughts and deeds,” he said.

Parishioners gathered at St. Anne Catholic School to pray the rosary and honor Mary as the Queen of Heaven during the school’s annual May Crowning on May 7.

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Love is not all hearts and flowers or what is presented in a sappy romantic film, Pope Francis said. “Love is something else. Love is taking responsibility for others.” Visiting Blessed Sacrament parish in the Rome suburb of Tor de’ Schiavi May 6, Pope Francis focused both on the day’s Gospel reading about “remaining” in Jesus’ love and on how parishioners were living that out or could undermine it.

By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Benedict XVI’s custom-made red leather loafers became a signature part of his wardrobe after his election in 2005, Newsweek labeled him “a religious-fashion icon” and Esquire named him “Accessorizer of the Year.” While some critics saw the media’s sudden fixation on papal fashion as frivolous and a way of trivializing the true meaning behind elegance in ecclesial dress, one top art curator said he saw this spotlight as actually raising “deeper, more profound considerations — namely, the role that dress plays in the Catholic Church and the role that the Catholic Church plays” within the world of fashion’s imagination.

By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians must pass on the faith by giving witness through their example and not by persuading others to choose sides, Pope Francis said.

By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In front of a small crowd of cabinet members and religious leaders at the White House Rose Garden May 3, President Donald Trump announced, and then signed, an executive order giving faith-based groups a stronger voice in the federal government.

By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Three Chilean abuse survivors who met with Pope Francis said his apology to them must be accompanied by concrete actions, not only against those who commit sexual abuse, but against those who cover it up.

Msgr. Jeremiah McGrath welcomed parishioners to St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica May 2 for the annual celebration of the May Crowning of the statue of the Blessed Mother Mary. Following the ritual, the celebration continued in the Cathedral Basilica Center with food and fellowship.