Catholic aid group weighs in on House, Senate committees’ dueling farm bills May 21, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News Lawmakers on the House and Senate agriculture committees released differing frameworks for the 2024 farm bill, with one version praised by a Catholic aid group.
Harrison Butker and JPII on the dignity and vocation of women May 21, 2024By Emily Zanotti OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Commentary While traditionalists, conservatives and often Catholics, may be tempted to dismiss “feminism” out of hand, Pope John Paul II reminds us that women are in fact equal in dignity and called to all sorts of vocations and involvement.
Invoking John Paul the Great May 21, 2024By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Last month’s anniversary Mass was something of a grand recapitulation of the John Paul II years.
Jesuit Father Charles Sullivan, Baltimore native and Loyola graduate, dies at 84 May 21, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Jesuit Father Charles Delano Sullivan, a Baltimore native who taught and coached for nearly 50 years in Bronx, N.Y., died May 13 of Parkinson’s disease. A funeral Mass will be offered May 22, 11 a.m., at Fordham University Church in the Bronx. He was 84.
Survivors of abuse address court for second time in bankruptcy process May 20, 2024By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: 2023 Attorney General's Report, Bankruptcy, Child & Youth Protection, Local News, News Eight survivors of sexual abuse by clergy and religious in the Archdiocese of Baltimore spoke during a court hearing May 20 as part of the archdiocese’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, providing a sometimes-gruesome look into the decades of impact on their lives.
Resurrection finds it was worth wait as parish celebrates renewed church May 20, 2024By Gary Lambrecht Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News The culmination of a long wait for a new worship space finally happened for patient parishioners May 17 in Ellicott City, where 700 filled the fully renovated and reconstructed Church of the Resurrection to celebrate a new beginning.
Rise in religious persecution fueled in part by authoritarianism, says U.S. watchdog agency May 20, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News An increase in religious persecution around the globe was fueled in part by a rise in authoritarianism, according to a recent annual report.
Recuerdan a trabajadores fallecidos en colapso de puente de Baltimore y a marineros y gente del mar May 20, 2024By Miguel Vivanco OSV News Filed Under: En Español La Misa anual por el “Día de Oración y Recuerdo de los Marineros y la Gente del Mar”, celebrada en la cripta de la Basílica de la Inmaculada Concepción de Washington, honró la memoria de seis trabajadores hispanos que perdieron la vida en el fatídico derrumbe del puente Francis Scott Key en Baltimore.
Mass remembers workers killed in Baltimore bridge collapse, sailors and seafarers May 20, 2024By Miguel Vivanco OSV News Filed Under: Bridge Collapse, Feature, Local News, News The annual “Mass for the Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Mariners and People of the Sea” celebrated at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington honored the memory of six Hispanic workers who lost their lives in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Radio Interview: Mass on the MV Dali May 20, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Bridge Collapse, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with Bishop Adam Parker about the experience of getting onto the Dali and the importance of praying for the crew, their families and those who died in the accident.
In ’60 Minutes’ interview, pope clarifies same-sex blessings, speaks out against war, says clergy abuse can ‘not be tolerated’ May 20, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News In the latest comment from the Vatican on “Fiducia Supplicans,” the controversial declaration issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in December 2023 that includes guidelines on the blessing of same-sex couples, Pope Francis clarified that he didn’t allow blessings of “the union” but of “each person.”
Meeting Jesus at midnight or in the wee small hours May 20, 2024By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary One need no longer hold a cold and lonely vigil at a locked door because — thanks to what used to be called “new media” — monasteries and diocesan adoration chapels from all over the world maintain live streams of the Blessed Sacrament for remote adoration, whereby the energy of the Christ is transmitted through energy both housed and in the ether, to encounter our own.
