St. Ignatius to host forum with candidates for governor November 3, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News The Justice and Peace Committee at St. Ignatius in Baltimore will host a Nov. 16 discussion with some of the candidates for Maryland’s 2022 gubernatorial election.
Bishops’ focus on Communion crisis highlights bigger issue, theologians say November 3, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2021, World News When the U.S. bishops highlighted Communion in their spring meeting, announcing their plans for both a document on the Eucharist and a three-year eucharistic revival, they emphasized that they were responding to a lack of understanding among many Catholics about something that is central to the faith.
Virginia seventh graders go on scavenger hunt armed with Catholic newspaper November 3, 2021By Ann M. Augherton Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News A religious education teacher at St. Agnes Church in Arlington sent her seventh graders on a scavenger hunt as part of their preparation for confirmation.
Court rejects Catholic hospital’s appeal of transgender patient’s lawsuit November 3, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court Nov. 1 turned down an appeal from a Catholic hospital in California that was sued for refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a transgender patient.
Grassroots effort calls on pope to canonize six Black sainthood candidates November 2, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints Bishop Lewandowski said it is important to have Masses to celebrate African American saints because the faithful identify with saints who “look like us, spoke our language, lived our experiences and can understand our struggles.”
Tombs of fallen soldiers are cry for peace, pope says on All Souls’ feast November 2, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The tombstones of soldiers killed in war cry out to people today to end all wars and to stop the production of weapons, Pope Francis said.
Supreme Court could be leaning to allow challenges to Texas abortion law November 2, 2021By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News During oral arguments just shy of three hours Nov. 1, the Supreme Court closely examined — and seemed to have concerns about — how the new abortion law in Texas was framed and is enforced.
New Cathedral Cemetery, now 150 years old, is final resting place of humble and famous November 2, 2021By Mary K. Tilghman Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News New Cathedral Cemetery has become the resting place of more than 111,000 people, including priests, nuns and notable Marylanders such as Gov. Herbert R. O’Connor, Baltimore Mayor Clarence “Du” Burns, sports writer John Steadman, and businessman Reginald Lewis.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Reaching out to Catholic military veterans November 1, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Bishop Joseph Coffey, episcopal vicar for veterans affairs with the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services, talks with Catholic Review Radio about his experiences as a military chaplain and how the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services minister to veterans.
Beauty born of pain: Black Catholic artist sees art as means of healing November 1, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice For Scott, art is a way to cope with the challenges of life. In his hands, the medium of clay becomes an instrument of healing.
Biden attends Mass in Rome, tells reporters of his admiration for pope November 1, 2021By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis “is a man who has a great empathy. He’s a man who understands that part of his Christianity is to reach out and forgive,” U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters in Rome Oct. 31.
Those ‘centered on Eucharist’ always have sense of gratitude, Cardinal Dolan says at Naval Academy October 31, 2021By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan told a Catholic audience at the U.S. Naval Academy that he is apprehensive about “the lack of gratitude festering in our culture of entitlement” and there’s an urgency for us to “rediscover a sense of gratitude.”
