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Wisconsin pro-life group’s HQ set ablaze; arson suspected (CNA) The headquarters of a pro-life organization in Madison, Wisconsin, was set on fire in an apparent arson attack, police said Sunday. The Madison Police Department said flames were seen coming from the offices of Wisconsin Family Action in the city’s north side shortly after 6 a.m. Sunday. The fire was quickly put out by the Madison Fire Department. No one was hurt, police said. “A molotov cocktail, which did not ignite, was thrown inside the building. It also appears a separate fire was started in response,” a police report said…

Costumed protestors disrupt Mass in LA cathedral (CNA) Several protesters dressed in “huge hats” and “red, hooded gowns,” disrupted a Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles Sunday morning, a parishioner told CNA. The description of the protesters’ attire provided by the parishioner, Bradford Adkins, resembles costumes worn by members of the pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us, which threatened to disrupt Catholic Masses on Sunday, Mother’s Day…

Pope appoints auxiliary bishop for Cleveland (Holy See Bulletin) The Holy Father has appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland (USA) the Rev. Michael G. Woost, of the clergy of the same Diocese, currently Associate Professor of Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at Saint Mary Seminary , assigning him the titular See of Sertei…

Pope decries division over liturgy (AP) Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Catholics who, hewing to old-school versions of liturgy like the Latin Mass, have made an ideological battleground of the issue, decrying what he described as devil-inspired divisiveness in the church. Speaking at the Vatican to instructors and students of the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Francis said it’s not possible to worship God while using the liturgy as a “battleground” for nonessential questions that divide the church…

Ukrainian archbishop: war is producing unity among Christians (Crux) Ukraine’s top Catholic official, who leads the church in a majority Orthodox nation, said his country’s ongoing effort to fight off a Russian invasion has brought the different Christian churches in Ukraine together in an utterly new way. “All religious groups in Ukraine find themselves united as never before,” said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, the largest of the 23 Eastern churches in communion with Rome…

Academics consider fallout from SCOTUS leak (CNS) The draft document, now considered authentic, was well-written and a good legal argument, but the Supreme Court has suffered in this apparent effort to undermine its legitimacy, said John Yoo, Emanuel S. Heller law professor at the University of California, Berkeley and law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas in 1994-95. “If it shows anything it shows that the critics of Roe who said that Roe has politicized the court and politicized our constitutional law are proven right by this leak itself,” Yoo said in a May 3 online forum sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government. He added that openly bare-knuckled partisan tactics have publicly arrived at the court…

Germany’s passion play returns after pandemic (AP) Now, after a two-year delay, the famous Oberammergau Passion Play is finally opening on May 14 — the 42nd staging since its long-ago debut. Almost half of the village’s residents — more than 1,800 people, including 400 children — will participate in the play about the last five days before Christ’s crucifixion…