Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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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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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Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and as renewed nuclear threats emerge in current conflicts — several U.S. Catholic bishops will travel to Japan on a “Pilgrimage of Peace.”
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
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Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News
“We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, following a deadly mass shooting in that city that claimed four lives, including that of a New York City police officer.
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Filed Under: News, World News
Religious communities can “contribute to the global architecture of disarmament and restraint” in several “specific ways” that foster dialogue, prevention and accountability, said Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi, a longtime Vatican diplomat and disarmament advocate.
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Filed Under: Missions, News, Religious Freedom, World News
A Nigerian priest kidnapped by Boko Haram in June has been released, OSV News has learned.
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Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, Knights of Columbus, News, World News
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami and some 25 Knights of Columbus saddled up their motorcycles to pray a rosary at the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial migrant detention center recently opened in the Florida Everglades.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
Newly installed Bishop Mark A. Eckman of Pittsburgh has expressed his “great sorrow” over “hateful vandalism” at one of his parish churches, which federal authorities are now investigating.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News
Rhode Islanders are celebrating Pope Leo XIV’s declaration that the healing of a baby born in their state back in 2007 was indeed miraculous, and advances the sainthood cause of a 19th-century Spanish priest.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
A kidnapped Nigerian priest, who previously served in Alaska, has managed to contact his home diocese, OSV News has learned.
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