Trump administration to appeal after judge blocks ICE detentions based on race July 15, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Racial Justice, World News The Trump administration plans to appeal a federal judge’s July 11 ruling that bars immigration officers in Southern California from conducting immigration enforcement actions based solely on a person’s race or the fact that person is speaking Spanish.
Listen for God this summer July 15, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, The Domestic Church The Loyola School started with a seed of an idea from Jesuit Father William Watters, who has brought such vision and commitment to Jesuit education for children in Baltimore over the decades.
Caring for others, serving life is the ‘supreme law,’ pope says July 14, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Serving life by caring for others is “the supreme law” that comes before all of society’s rules, Pope Leo XIV said.
Deacon Gary Elliott Dumer Jr., active in men’s ministry, dies July 14, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Deacon Gary Elliott Dumer Jr. died July 8. He was 61.
Radio Interview: The music and ministry of Seph Schlueter July 14, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Making music can be a way to celebrate with God and invite others to follow him, according to Catholic musician Seph Schlueter. Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty chatted with Schlueter about the inspiration for his music.
Jesus did not ignore those in need, and neither should Christians, pope says July 14, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The pope celebrated the Mass in the small Church of St. Thomas of Villanova, just across the main square from the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo. The pope arrived in the hilltop town south of Rome July 6 for a brief vacation until July 20.
Kansas Catholic school building vandalized, defaced with swastikas July 14, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News A Catholic school building in Kansas has been extensively vandalized, with the perpetrators defacing the property with swastikas.
Hunt Valley parishioner recalls her former student – a future pope July 14, 2025By Susan McInerney Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vatican Teachers often reflect on standout students – the brilliant minds, the star athletes, the unforgettable personalities. But very few can say one of their former students became pope.
Father Herman Benedict Czaster, former Curley teacher, dies at 86 July 13, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Conventual Franciscan Father Herman Benedict Czaster was offered July 10 at St. Adalbert in Elmhurst, N.Y. Father Czaster died July 6. He was 86.
Loyola University Maryland graduate ordained Jesuit priest July 13, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Jonathan Pennacchia, a 2014 graduate of Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, was ordained a Jesuit priest June 14 at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City.
Judge blocks Trump birthright citizenship order as part of class action lawsuit July 10, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A federal judge on July 10 placed a new, temporary nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s executive order to end the practice of birthright citizenship as part of a class action lawsuit, a different legal procedure after the Supreme Court previously limited the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions.
Ukraine religious leaders issue ‘desperate cry’ to world to end Russia’s war July 10, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Ukraine’s religious leaders have issued a “desperate cry” to the global faith community, pleading for international action in ending “the humanitarian and spiritual catastrophe” resulting from Russia’s war on their nation.