Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Mass deportations and asylum bans — part of the Trump administration’s rapid changes to U.S. immigration policy — destroy communities and human dignity, while constituting a “war on the poor,” said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Schools, World News
Several diocesan overseers of federally funded school meal programs told OSV News that Trump administration changes stand to leave some children’s plates empty, while potentially making surviving versions of the programs too burdensome to operate.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
A Satanic group planning a “black mass” at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 has sworn in court it is not in possession of a consecrated host and wine the group said it aimed to desecrate at the event.
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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.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Journalism, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Journalists dismissed by the Trump administration’s gutting of the federally funded Voice of America broadcaster “will not be silenced,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Catholic bishops and faithful in the U.S. are helping to heal broken bodies, minds and spirits in Ukraine amid Russia’s full-scale invasion, thanks to a church-driven initiative that has “reacted with lightning speed” and “very little bureaucracy” to the crisis, said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
A Catholic church in Kansas has been targeted in what that state’s bishops are calling a “hate crime.”
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Filed Under: News, World News
More than a dozen models of rosaries and teethers designed for young children are being recalled, following the identification of a potential choking hazard.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News
A forthcoming docudrama is highlighting how an Irish laborer, now on the path to possible sainthood, has become a patron of those battling addiction — and those thirsting for holiness.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, Giving, News, World News
Amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, an annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad has taken on “a very urgent significance,” said Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg of Reno, Nevada, head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ national collections efforts.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News
Darkness “doesn’t get the final word,” and Christ’s call to “step out of the lie” and “choose life” remains the same, said Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., following that state’s decision to officially celebrate abortion providers.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
Hundreds of civilians have been killed since March 6 as Syria’s security forces battled armed supporters of former Syria president Bashar Assad.
