Catholic Review
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News
Ahead of an annual day of prayer for vocations, a newly released report shows what one researcher called greater “consistency of age,” more diverse educational backgrounds and a commitment to Eucharistic adoration among men preparing for priestly ordination.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
North Dakota has enacted a near-total ban on abortions, with limited exceptions in cases of rape and incest up until the sixth week of pregnancy.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Viktoria Halitsina, head of the Ukrainian military administration of the port city of Berdyansk, wrote on her agency’s Telegram channel that Russian troops had seized the city’s Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
Prayer, sacramental grace and the cultivation of virtue are Catholics’ most effective responses to an upcoming satanist convention in Boston — and the event itself is an opportune moment for Catholics to give witness to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
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Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News
Online gaming presents unprecedented risks to kids’ safety, but parents remain the best defense against child exploitation — even if they’re not tech savvy, experts told OSV News.
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Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News
Catholics in Kansas City, Mo., are turning to faith, dialogue and discernment after a local Black teen was shot by a white homeowner for mistaking an address in the course of picking up his younger siblings.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News
Arek Szura, fulfilled his promise to God, donning work gloves and kneepads to shuffle and crawl the 10 blocks from his home to St. Adalbert Church, part of St. John Paul II Parish and home to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Polish Apostolate.
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Filed Under: En Español
El Domingo de la Divina Misericordia abre las “compuertas de la misericordia” para todos a través de los sacramentos de la Confesión y la Santa Comunión, dijo un sacerdote famoso por promover la fiesta litúrgica y la devoción que la acompaña.
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Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News
Shelter-in-place orders were issued April 13 at two Catholic universities in Washington, with all-clears declared shortly thereafter, as part of an apparent wave of false threats made against schools throughout the nation the same day and in recent weeks.
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Filed Under: Divine Worship, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Divine Mercy Sunday opens the “floodgates of mercy” for all through the sacraments of confession and holy Communion, said a priest renowned for promoting the liturgical feast and its accompanying devotion.
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Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News
The end of a long-running Catholic pastoral care contract at a leading U.S. military medical center highlights broader concerns about the federal contracting process for such services, according to the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and several lawmakers.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News
The final document for the North American phase of the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality was released April 12, capturing a process of dialogue and discernment that two participants described as ‘messy,’ ‘joyful’ and unifying — like the synod itself.
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