Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News
Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia is calling for prayer, saying his “heart sank” after learning of a fatal air crash in that city Jan. 31, just two days after a midair collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter near a Washington airport killed 67.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News
Ahead of the World Day for Consecrated Life Feb. 2 — an observance that was instituted in 1997 by St. John Paul II and is attached to the feast of the Presentation of the Lord — OSV News spoke with Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life And Vocations.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
The United States is a “nation with a proud legacy of welcome to immigrants” that also “needs secure, safe, sturdy borders,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News
Clergy and religious continue to speak out against the Trump administration’s orders to carry out mass deportation operations and allow for immigration arrests in houses of worship, schools and other locations formerly designated as “sensitive.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church’s primary legal code, one expert told OSV News.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, World News
Ahead of national Catholic Schools Week 2025 (Jan. 26-Feb. 1), OSV News spoke with Mary Pat Donoghue, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Catholic Education, for her thoughts on the state of Catholic education in the nation.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News
A Philadelphia priest has called new Trump administration policies on immigration arrests a threat to the church’s religious freedom and people’s right to worship without fear.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, Respect Life, World News
A majority of Americans support legal limits on abortion, according to results from a Knights of Columbus-Marist poll released Jan. 23.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News
In vitro fertilization, which is contrary to Catholic teaching, poses threats “to human dignity and human rights” in ways both “very obvious” and “at other times quite subtle,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va.
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Hours after the inauguration, Trump issued several executive orders, one of which declared migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border an emergency.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News
The Catholic University of America in Washington will look into consolidating some academic departments, as part of a recently announced effort to address a $30 million budget deficit.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News
“The Rosary in a Year” chart-topping podcast is a step-by-step journey to a deeper relationship with the Lord, its host told OSV News.
