Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News
A new report confirms OSV News’ previous finding that U.S. Catholic dioceses and eparchies have paid more than $5 billion to settle abuse claims filed over the past two decades — but credible allegations have declined significantly over the same period, with the majority of cases preceding a landmark set of anti-abuse protocols established by the U.S. bishops in 2002.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Respect Life, World News
As the nation’s Catholics prepare to commemorate unborn children in prayer, a U.S. bishop is pointing to the Jubilee Year as a time of hope for healing from the wounds of abortion.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News
A Philadelphia parish is in shock following the brazen theft of an historic golden crown from a beloved statue of Mary.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News
Since the start of their February 2022 full-scale invasion, Russian forces have killed close to 70 clergy and destroyed more than 630 places of worship in Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s ministry of foreign affairs.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
The words of slain civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continue to challenge all “to live out the principle of solidarity and human dignity,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops.
