Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
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As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Catholic Church must renew its commitment to nonviolence, disarmament and lasting peace, said U.S. prelates attending commemoration events in Japan.
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OSV News
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Ahead of his third “Pilgrimage of Peace” to Japan to mark the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, Archbishop John C. Wester spoke with OSV News about the current state of nuclear risk, and efforts to disarm the world of nuclear weapons.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Missions, News, Religious Freedom, World News
Staff of a charity serving Haiti are pleading for the return of a kidnapped Irish lay missionary and her companions — including a 3-year-old child — taken by armed gunmen who stormed an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, amid the Caribbean nation’s long-running armed gang violence and political instability.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News
Pope Leo XIV commended the Knights of Columbus for uniting Catholic men in prayer and fraternity, while extending “generous service to vulnerable populations,” as the fraternal organization holds its 143rd Supreme Convention in Washington.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Missions, News, World News
A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation’s long-running armed gang violence and instability.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., is urging the people of his state to “affirm the humanity of all immigrants, regardless of legal status.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News
Peace and nuclear disarmament begin in the heart, said the head of the nation’s Catholic bishops.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
With Pope Leo XIV prioritizing the issue of artificial intelligence, one expert warned OSV News that generative AI poses serious — and largely unaddressed — threats to child safety, by accelerating the creation and distribution of child sex abuse material, or CSAM.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News
The Trump administration’s recent decision to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations’ cultural agency comes just weeks ahead of a Catholic UNESCO World Heritage site anniversary celebration — and the exit stands to erode historic preservation efforts more broadly, experts told OSV News.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
Despite daunting odds, Catholic Relief Services and its on-the-ground partners have managed to deliver aid to 1.7 million people in Gaza since 2023, according to new data.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Pope paves way for St. John Henry Newman to be formally named doctor of the church
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