Jesus pursues brokenness to offer healing, pope’s catechesis says March 26, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Jesus seeks out people in their woundedness and isolation to offer healing and hope, even when they feel furthest from God, Pope Francis said in a prepared catechesis.
Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and deacon assignments March 26, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Appointments, Feature, Local News, News Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and deacon assignments
Margaret ‘Margie’ Meyers remembered for skill at pastoral planning March 26, 2025By Kurt Jensen Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Margaret “Margie” Meyers, a longtime parishioner of St. Peter parish in Westernport and a force in Catholic faith formation and pastoral planning in Western Maryland, died March 10 at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., following a brief illness with a neuromuscular disorder. She was 65.
Building beds, building faith: Youths participate in day of service and mercy March 26, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Youth Ministry Groups from Hagerstown and Frederick were participating in Just Mercy, a daylong retreat for middle schoolers held in conjunction with the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s “Rise Up, Have Mercy” middle school day in Randallstown.
Man charged with terrorism for alleged threat to ‘butcher’ Memphis Catholic churchgoers March 26, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A 30-year-old man believed to be homeless was arrested and charged with the commission of an act of terrorism following a threat he allegedly emailed to a music minister at St. Louis Catholic Church in Memphis, Tenn., claiming he wanted to “butcher” people in the church with a machete.
Patrick Brice to be retried for first-degree assault charges outside Planned Parenthood March 26, 2025By Katie V. Jones OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life Patrick Brice, of Baltimore, will be retried for a first-degree assault charge on Mark Crosby, the then-73-year-old abortion protestor Brice pushed, punched and kicked in the face in front of a Planned Parenthood facility in Baltimore May 26, 2023.
U.S. bishop warns renewed Israel-Hamas war augurs ‘dire consequences’ for the region March 26, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News Ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas will have “dire consequences” for civil society’s future and is likely to worsen the region’s tensions for another generation, Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, said in a statement following the breakdown of a ceasefire agreement in the Holy Land.
Principal of Legionaries of Christ-linked school in Spain resigns amid abuse scandal March 26, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News The principal of a school run by members of Regnum Christi, the lay arm of the Legionaries of Christ, resigned after a school chaplain was arrested for sexually abusing five underage girls.
U.S. lawmakers push anti-discrimination bill to protect pregnancy resource centers March 26, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News The language of the latest incarnation of the Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act, a bill aimed at protecting more than 2,700 pregnancy resource centers nationwide from federal and state interference, is not radically different than the language of the one introduced in Congress last year.
Special Mass at Washington cathedral offers support to federal workers March 25, 2025By Nicole Olea OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, World News A special Mass for federal workers and civil servants celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington offered a message of solidarity and hope amid ongoing employment uncertainties.
Catholic groups call sudden cancellation of CHNV migrants’ program ‘counterproductive’ March 25, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Catholic groups that minister to migrants and refugees are expressing concern over President Donald Trump’s order to revoke the parole program that allows legal migrants from several Latin American and Caribbean countries to connect with sponsoring family members and work in the United States.
Archbishop Lori confers Archdiocesan Medals of Honor March 25, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Archbishop William E. Lori conferred the honors at a private reception at his residence next to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. Honorees will be publicly recognized in May at the archdiocesan Shine the Light Gala.
