Jesuit Father Robert Hamm dies at 88 US bishops will review health care guidelines during Baltimore meetings Former House Speaker and Baltimore native Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection Victim-survivors tell of mistrust, pain in third court session Blue Ribbon flies high at St. Louis School in Clarksville Local News Jesuit Father Robert Hamm dies at 88 Catholic Review Staff November 7, 2025 Jesuit Father Robert E. Hamm died Oct. 25 at Manresa Hall in Merion Station, Pa.. He was 88, a Jesuit for 70 years and a priest for 57 years. Victim-survivors tell of mistrust, pain in third court session Christopher Gunty November 6, 2025 In a federal courtroom in Baltimore Nov. 5, 10 people stepped up to give impact statements about the effects of their abuse as minors by people connected to the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Their stories included tears and frustration, as well as signs of hope and healing. Blue Ribbon flies high at St. Louis School in Clarksville Kevin J. Parks November 6, 2025 Students and faculty at St. Louis School in Clarksville burst into the school gym in waves Nov. 5, wearing blue spirit T-shirts, sunglasses and wielding pom-poms to celebrate the Howard County Catholic school’s designation as one of Maryland’s Blue Ribbon schools. 60 years after Vatican II document on non-Christian relations, panelists say work to implement it continues Patricia Zapor November 5, 2025 The shortest final document of the Second Vatican Council, “Nostra Aetate,” redefined the way the Catholic Church relates to Jews, Muslims and other non-Christian faiths, in part by stating that “the Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions.” More Local News World News Security for Syria’s religious minorities’ is disastrous, say religious freedom advocates Dale Gavlak November 8, 2025 Continued attacks on Christians and other minorities in Syria at the hands of Islamists, some affiliated with the new Syrian interim government, call into question whether the war-torn country can rebuild without first securing its people. Bishops, humanitarian leader urge bold, courageous action at UN climate conference Gina Christian November 8, 2025 Government officials, scientists, business leaders, activists and others from more than 190 nations will gather for the U.N.’s COP30, which will take place Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil. New ‘Nuremberg’ thriller examines capacity of ordinary men to commit extraordinary evil Katie Yoder November 8, 2025 A new thriller about the Nuremberg trials held to prosecute high-ranking Nazi Germany officials following World War II wrestles with the capacity of ordinary men to commit extraordinary evil. Ohio bishop ends funeral visitations in churches, citing liturgical directives Gina Christian November 7, 2025 Bishop David J. Bonnar of Youngstown, Ohio, has moved to end holding funeral visitations in Catholic churches in that diocese, citing the proper understanding of the Catholic funeral liturgy rubrics — as well as the disruption such viewings can cause in sacred spaces. More World News Commentary A pastoral reflection on voting rights and the call to justice Bishop Joseph N. Perry November 9, 2025 The church consistently teaches that all persons have both a fundamental right and a responsibility to have their voice heard in the public square, to promote human dignity and build the common good of society. Pope Leo XIV reiterated as much in his recent exhortation,”Dilexi Te.” See You There Rita Buettner November 6, 2025 I never know what to say, but I know how to be present. And I have to hope that that’s enough. Question Corner: How many vocations are there? Jenna Marie Cooper November 6, 2025 It’s important to keep in mind that the concept of “vocation” is ultimately not about sorting ourselves or others into boxes, but rather is about discerning and embracing God’s will for us in our own unique life situation — whether or not that fits tidily into one of the above-mentioned categories. No king but Christ Kenneth Craycraft November 5, 2025 At the bare minimum, it means that we subordinate all claims of political authority to the Lordship of Christ. Newman and the new ultramontanism George Weigel November 5, 2025 The irony of Newman being given this rare honor just now lies in the fact that the unity of the Church is threatened by recrudescent ultramontanism: not the old, 19th-century reactionary model, but a new hybrid combining Catholic progressivism in the realm of ideas with liberal authoritarianism in Church governance. More Commentary Featured Video On the feast of All Souls, Pope Leo celebrated a late-afternoon Mass at Rome’s Verano cemetery.
Jesuit Father Robert Hamm dies at 88 Catholic Review Staff November 7, 2025 Jesuit Father Robert E. Hamm died Oct. 25 at Manresa Hall in Merion Station, Pa.. He was 88, a Jesuit for 70 years and a priest for 57 years.
Victim-survivors tell of mistrust, pain in third court session Christopher Gunty November 6, 2025 In a federal courtroom in Baltimore Nov. 5, 10 people stepped up to give impact statements about the effects of their abuse as minors by people connected to the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Their stories included tears and frustration, as well as signs of hope and healing.
Blue Ribbon flies high at St. Louis School in Clarksville Kevin J. Parks November 6, 2025 Students and faculty at St. Louis School in Clarksville burst into the school gym in waves Nov. 5, wearing blue spirit T-shirts, sunglasses and wielding pom-poms to celebrate the Howard County Catholic school’s designation as one of Maryland’s Blue Ribbon schools.
60 years after Vatican II document on non-Christian relations, panelists say work to implement it continues Patricia Zapor November 5, 2025 The shortest final document of the Second Vatican Council, “Nostra Aetate,” redefined the way the Catholic Church relates to Jews, Muslims and other non-Christian faiths, in part by stating that “the Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in these religions.”
Security for Syria’s religious minorities’ is disastrous, say religious freedom advocates Dale Gavlak November 8, 2025 Continued attacks on Christians and other minorities in Syria at the hands of Islamists, some affiliated with the new Syrian interim government, call into question whether the war-torn country can rebuild without first securing its people.
Bishops, humanitarian leader urge bold, courageous action at UN climate conference Gina Christian November 8, 2025 Government officials, scientists, business leaders, activists and others from more than 190 nations will gather for the U.N.’s COP30, which will take place Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil.
New ‘Nuremberg’ thriller examines capacity of ordinary men to commit extraordinary evil Katie Yoder November 8, 2025 A new thriller about the Nuremberg trials held to prosecute high-ranking Nazi Germany officials following World War II wrestles with the capacity of ordinary men to commit extraordinary evil.
Ohio bishop ends funeral visitations in churches, citing liturgical directives Gina Christian November 7, 2025 Bishop David J. Bonnar of Youngstown, Ohio, has moved to end holding funeral visitations in Catholic churches in that diocese, citing the proper understanding of the Catholic funeral liturgy rubrics — as well as the disruption such viewings can cause in sacred spaces.
A pastoral reflection on voting rights and the call to justice Bishop Joseph N. Perry November 9, 2025 The church consistently teaches that all persons have both a fundamental right and a responsibility to have their voice heard in the public square, to promote human dignity and build the common good of society. Pope Leo XIV reiterated as much in his recent exhortation,”Dilexi Te.”
See You There Rita Buettner November 6, 2025 I never know what to say, but I know how to be present. And I have to hope that that’s enough.
Question Corner: How many vocations are there? Jenna Marie Cooper November 6, 2025 It’s important to keep in mind that the concept of “vocation” is ultimately not about sorting ourselves or others into boxes, but rather is about discerning and embracing God’s will for us in our own unique life situation — whether or not that fits tidily into one of the above-mentioned categories.
No king but Christ Kenneth Craycraft November 5, 2025 At the bare minimum, it means that we subordinate all claims of political authority to the Lordship of Christ.
Newman and the new ultramontanism George Weigel November 5, 2025 The irony of Newman being given this rare honor just now lies in the fact that the unity of the Church is threatened by recrudescent ultramontanism: not the old, 19th-century reactionary model, but a new hybrid combining Catholic progressivism in the realm of ideas with liberal authoritarianism in Church governance.
