Pope’s days are marked by small improvements, work, prayer March 21, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis continues to show small signs of improvement and spends his days following through on all his therapies, doing some light work and praying, according to the Vatican press office.
Papal preacher: Stay anchored in Christ, live hope during Holy Year March 21, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The papal preacher urged cardinals and senior officials of the Roman Curia to remain firmly anchored in Christ through lives of humility, conversion and fidelity, especially during the Holy Year, a time meant to rekindle Christian hope.
Ukraine war confirms humanity can ‘rely only on God,’ nuncio says March 21, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News The apostolic nuncio to Ukraine said that recent events regarding Ukraine have shown that the only true weapon that can bring peace is prayer.
Extension honors Houston Catholic family with immigrant roots for serving church, community March 21, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News A Catholic family whose forebears immigrated to Texas from Czechoslovakia, lost everything in the Great Depression, experienced homelessness and went on to start what is now one of the largest companies in the Southwest has been honored by the Catholic Extension Society with its eighth annual Houston Spirit of Francis Award.
St. Joseph Medical Center receives national safety award; Mercy honored as top women’s workplace March 21, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Health Care, Local News, News For the second straight year, University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson has been recognized as a 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award winner by Healthgrades.
Pope Francis’ 12-year papacy examined for impact on migration March 21, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Catholic theologians and other experts discussed the impact of Pope Francis’ pontificate on issues, particularly migration, as the pope remained in the hospital during a March 19 panel hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
St. Peter’s Basilica becomes a ‘fixable,’ explorable Minecraft world March 21, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry Students around the world now have a chance to be an explorer-restorer of the 519-year-old basilica thanks to a new online educational opportunity created by Minecraft Education, Microsoft’s game-based learning platform, and with the help of St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican City State.
Speakers: Church has role in fight against AI-generated exploitation March 21, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church needs to expand its safeguarding efforts to include the new threats and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence, top organizers of a Vatican conference said.
Sister Gloria Keltz, O.S.F., dies at 95 March 20, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Gloria Keltz (formerly Sister Robert St. Joan) was offered March 6 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Gloria died March 3. She was 95 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 75 years.
Lenten lectures are back at Notre Dame, marking a ‘grand retour’ of a Parisian classic March 20, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Lent, News, World News The traditional “Lenten Conferences” resumed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this Lenten season, for the first time since the fire of April 15, 2019.
Myanmar junta allegedly torches Catholic cathedral in Kachin March 20, 2025By OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News The military junta in Myanmar’s strife-torn Kachin state allegedly burned down a Catholic cathedral dedicated to St. Patrick on the eve of the revered saint’s feast.
Kansas archbishop sues Satanists over alleged theft of Eucharist for ‘black mass’ March 20, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has filed a motion for the return of the Eucharist, a consecrated host and consecrated wine a Satanic group claims to have stolen, with the archbishop stating that all sacred species are the property of the Catholic Church.
