Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Catholic bishops throughout the U.S. are calling on faithful to pray for Pope Francis, now in critical condition in Rome’s Gemelli hospital amid a week-long battle with respiratory illness.
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Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Catholic bishops, clergy and religious across the nation continue to weigh in on the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy, stressing the need to respect human dignity amid efforts to address immigration challenges.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Hope in Christ and that God’s truth will prevail amid Russia’s war on Ukraine was the message that Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the patriarchal head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, shared time and again during his Feb. 15-21 Jubilee Year pastoral visit to the United States.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a practice contrary to Catholic teaching.
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Filed Under: News, World News
A diverted trip, a grounded flight and an unexpected stay in Canada showed that “Jesus … is in charge, not us,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York in a Feb. 15 homily.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News
Major Archbishop Shevchuk shared his thoughts on justice, peace, hope and evangelization amid the war, which has been declared a genocide in two joint reports from the New Lines Institute and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
An annual collection for the Catholic Church in nations once under Soviet control is “ever more urgent,” especially as Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine enters its fourth year — and as the church still works to rebuild in nations scarred by decades of communism, said Bishop Gerald L. Vincke of Salina, Kan.
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Filed Under: News, Saints, World News
The leader of the nation’s Catholic bishops has commended Pope Francis’ move to extend to the universal Catholic Church the feast of a beloved saint and “contemporary witness” of faith.
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Filed Under: Bishops, News, Uncategorized, World News
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop R. Walker Nickless, 77, from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, and appointed Father John E. Keehner Jr., pastor of four parishes, to succeed him.
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Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News
Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services and Caritas agencies throughout the world are warning that the Trump administration’s freezing of the U.S. Aid for International Development — which has provided major funding for the groups for over six decades — will harm millions globally.
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Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
A new report calls for the Russian Federation to be designated a state sponsor of terrorism, finding that Russia is weaponizing Orthodox Christianity as part of a genocidal attack on Ukraine — persecuting Catholics, other Christians and other faith communities in the besieged nation.
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Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr, 76, from the pastoral governance of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey of Chicago as his successor.
