Parishes respond with prayer, outreach amid historic Northeast floods August 21, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News Catholics in Connecticut are working to help those impacted by what one lawmaker described as “historic, unprecedented flooding” Aug. 18-19 that took two lives and forced hundreds to flee for safety.
Knott Scholars give back to community at O’Dwyer Retreat House August 21, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools More than 120 Knott Scholars and their family members gathered at O’Dwyer Aug. 17 to weed, mulch, build benches and more.
Baltimore ‘cooking priest’ opens Gastro Social restaurant in Little Italy August 21, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News An accomplished chef, Father Leo Patalinghug’s food and faith movement began when he won the cooking competition “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” on the Food Channel. With those winnings and the recognition, Father Patalinghug was able to open his food truck and now, the restaurant Gastro Social.
Olympic bell will ring inside newly rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral during every Mass August 21, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Olympics, Sports, World News During the Paris Olympic Games, track and field champions rang the bronze bell located close to the finish line at Saint-Denis’ Stade de France. In December, that same bell will ring in the newly reopened Notre Dame Cathedral during the most sacred part of the Mass.
Christians are called to spread ‘fragrance of Christ,’ pope says August 21, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Cleansed from original sin by baptism, Christians are called to spread the “good fragrance of Christ” throughout the world by their kind actions and joyful attitudes, Pope Francis said.
‘What a gift Crosier life is,’ says religious order’s newly elected national superior August 21, 2024By Dianne Towalski OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News During the weeklong 2024 Conventual Priory Chapter meeting in Onamia, the U.S. Crosier Fathers and Brothers elected Father Juguilon as their new conventual prior for a four-year term.
Pope discusses climate change with Jeff Bezos August 20, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, at the Vatican to discuss climate change.
A lesson from the crab August 20, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Enjoying Baltimore steamed crabs at New All Saints’ Aug. 18 crab feast brought to mind an old Nigerian proverb for Spiritan Father Uju Patrick Okeahialam.
A crab feast like no other for parishioners of New All Saints August 20, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News There are crab feasts, and then there are crab feasts such as what’s offered at New All Saints in Liberty Heights.
Nicaragua extinguishes legal status for religious orders, evangelical congregations August 20, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organizations, including religious orders such as the Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians, another diocesan Caritas chapter, and lay Catholic groups, as part of an attack on civil society with the closure of 1,500 nongovernmental organizations.
Christian convert imprisoned in Egypt declares hunger strike; advocates urge his release August 20, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A Christian convert in Egypt who has been imprisoned for more than two years for publicly speaking about his conversion has declared a hunger strike, prompting religious freedom advocates to increase their calls for his release.
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Biden administration’s new Title IX rule August 20, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court Aug. 16 declined to allow the Biden administration to enforce portions of a new regulation expanding Title IX protections from sex discrimination to include students who identify as transgender while legal challenges to the rule proceed.
