Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
Amid cries of defiance and jubilation, Father Tim Wezner stood out for his quiet prayer, holding a rosary and contemplating the crowd outside the Supreme Court of the United States June 24 after a majority of justices overturned a landmark decision that for almost 50 years made abortion legal across the land.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News
As the Catholic Church in the United States marks two decades since the U.S. bishops adopted a document establishing policies to deal with allegations of sexual abuse of children by clergy, Jesuit Father Jerry McGlone worries about the psychological responses the event could trigger.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, U.S. Congress, World News
A politically divided Congress has not been able to agree on a comprehensive immigration plan, nor a bill to offer the approximately 760,000 DACA recipients a path to citizenship.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Twenty countries from the Americas, including the United States, signed a declaration June 10, the last day of the troubled Summit of the Americas, committing to help and protect “all migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless persons, regardless of their migratory status.”
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The young organizers of Students Demand Action were the first of several groups to arrive in Washington in early June for a week of protests demanding that U.S. lawmakers pass restrictions on high-powered weapons such as the ones that have been used in mass shootings, including at schools.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
It feels as if there are no silver linings in the cloud of lingering grief and horror that surrounds Uvalde, Texas, as the city began May 31 to bury the first of 19 children and their two teachers killed a week earlier during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
Various orders of women religious said that lamenting the May 24 mass killing of 19 children and two of their teachers in Uvalde, Texas, also should accompany action so that it doesn’t happen again.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
Some U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their elementary school teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
From a Franciscan parish in a city where one of the victims once lived to a border city that experienced a similar mass shooting, Catholics around the nation have gathered to remember those gunned down May 14 in Buffalo, N.Y., and are praying for an end to violence and racism.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
Several U.S. Catholic bishops expressed sorrow and called out racism and gun violence after reports of a May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left at least three injured and 10 dead — a crime authorities categorized as likely motivated by hatred for Black people.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
Biden administration officials issued a statement against violence May 9 following protests outside the homes of two Supreme Court justices in the Washington area as well as a spate of vandalism and disruptions targeting locales of groups that oppose abortion. Some of them include Catholic churches.
By
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
Crowds arrived in Washington shortly after the online news site Politico published a report late May 2 from a leaked draft opinion signaling that the majority of Supreme Court justices seem set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 legal decision that legalized abortion in the country.
en 
Spanish