Archbishop Lori announces July appointments, including new pastors and administrators June 25, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Appointments, Feature, Local News, News Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including new pastors and administrators.
Supreme Court to hear challenge to state law banning transgender interventions for minors June 25, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on June 24 agreed to hear a challenge to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender, the high court’s first major step toward weighing in on the controversial issue.
Govans parish has 175-year history of ‘valuing differences’ June 25, 2024By Gary Lambrecht Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Parish Anniversary 2024 Not even the anger and sadness that have hit the congregation since the archdiocese finalized the Seek the City to Come plan that includes the merger of St. Mary with the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Dec. 1 – during St. Mary’s 175th year – can keep the parish family from appreciating what it has had together.
Archdiocese of Baltimore celebrates ordination of six new priests June 24, 2024By Kurt Jensen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Joyous applause rang out during several moments in the nearly two-and-a-half-hour Mass, especially after the Communion prayer when nearly 2,000 people accepted Archbishop William E. Lori’s invitation to show their love for the newly ordained priests
Radio Interview: Safe Streets program counters violence in Baltimore City June 24, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Catholic Charities, CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview George Matysek looks at Safe Streets with Kevin Keegan, who leads Catholic Charities’ Family Services Division, under which Safe Streets is housed.Also joining the interview is Greg Marshburn, director of Catholic Charities’ four Safe Streets sites.
Pope confirms Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized ‘soon’ June 24, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati “will be a saint soon.”
Florida Catholic’s Ana Rodriguez-Soto wins 2024 St. Francis de Sales Award June 24, 2024By Maria-Pia Negro Chin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News Ana Rodriguez-Soto, who recently retired as editor of the Florida Catholic, Miami edition, is the recipient of the 2024 St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Media Association.
Apostolate to pregnant women in need poised to spread mission as lay association of faithful June 24, 2024By Mike May OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Now — with the Vatican’s recent approval of the organization as a lay association of the faithful — Mater Filius is poised to spread its mission as part of the Catholic Church’s pro-life outreach.
Study: Young men from ‘intact’ families — with married mom and dad — fare better in life June 24, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News Young men from “non-intact” families without a father are more likely to end up in prison or jail than to graduate from college, according to the findings of a new study from the Institute for Family Studies, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based think tank dedicated to researching marriage, family life and the well-being of children.
Why are abortions increasing after Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling overturned Roe? June 23, 2024By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive research organization that supports abortion, estimated earlier this year that the number of abortions is the highest it has been in over a decade.
Vatican communications prefect on using Rupnik art: ‘I don’t think we have to throw stones’ June 22, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Vatican, World News On the final day of the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta, the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication addressed questions posed by journalists about the dicastery’s regular practice of posting art by Father Marko Rupnik — a Rome-based priest accused of sexually abusing multiple women — on the Vatican News website and social media, especially to illustrate church feast days.
Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp officials overjoyed as namesake heads toward canonization June 22, 2024By Colleen Rowan OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Its mission is to lead young people to a deep relationship with Jesus Christ through his church. And the Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp does just that each summer for young Catholics in West Virginia.
