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Sasha Kirk, 15, a freshman at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis, said in April she sometimes talked with friends during lunch about the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death last year of African American George Floyd, which set off waves of protests and riots in the Twin Cities and around the country.

Lift each other up in the midst of trauma, poverty and injustice.

The new Texas "heartbeat" abortion law "will save thousands of lives and is a vital step on the road to abolishing all abortions in Texas," said Texas Right to Life after Gov. Greg Abbott signed the measure into law.

At the University of Notre Dame's graduation ceremony May 23 with over 14,000 in attendance including graduates, faculty members, families and friends, one notable absence for some was President Joe Biden.

The divisions among Christians are a result of sin and must be overcome with new efforts at reconciliation and unity so that the world will believe that the Gospel truly is good news, Pope Francis said.

Welcoming the Italian bishops' decision to begin planning a national synod, Pope Francis told them that it must begin at the grassroots with "the smallest parish, the smallest diocesan institution."

Approving the revision of the entire process of the Synod of Bishops, Pope Francis has asked that it begin with serious, widespread consultations with laypeople on the diocesan level.

During the May 20 episcopal ordination and installation of Duluth's 10th bishop, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis confessed that he was "experiencing some envy" over new Bishop Daniel J. Felton getting to minister in northeastern Minnesota.