Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News
As the Biden administration and state governments look at ways to expand or restrict access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, Pope Francis prayed that God would strengthen people’s commitment to protecting human life at every stage.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Pope Francis will celebrate the fourth annual Sunday of the Word of God Jan. 22 and, like he did last year, will confer the ministries of lector and catechist on several lay people, according to the Dicastery for Evangelization.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News
Pope Benedict XVI was a “great teacher of catechesis” whose “sharp and gentle thinking” led others to encounter Jesus, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News
The goal of the used food truck — named “Holy CHOW,” for Christian Hospitality on Wheels — is to improve the lives of the hungry in the Manville, N.J., area.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Missions, News, Vatican, World News
Most of the 18 Catholic missionaries murdered in 2022 were not carrying out high-risk missions when they were assassinated but were simply “immersed and submerged in the ordinariness of their lives and their apostolic work,” said the editor of Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news service.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, met with top Ukrainian military chaplains Dec. 29 in Kyiv.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Intermittent electricity and air raid sirens cannot and should not stop Ukrainians from celebrating the birth of Jesus, said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
The names of the prisoners were given in the hope that the pope “may be able to facilitate their liberation or at least an improvement in their conditions of detention,” the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reported.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News
Private citizen groups have arranged for Nativity scenes to be on display at 43 state capitols around the country, a record number, according to a not-for-profit law firm’s tally.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis spent part of his 86th birthday paying tribute to people who have gone above and beyond in the exercise of charity.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis has appointed two Washington archdiocesan priests, Msgr. Juan R. Esposito-Garcia and Father Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, as auxiliary bishops of their archdiocese.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News
Catholic Extension’s cover story is about Christmas through the eyes of these children who “come from different cultures and parts of the world, but what they share in common is faith — faith in the midst of terror, violence and war,” the story said.
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