England’s house afire amid the limitations on free speech September 14, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Religious Freedom Stopping difficult, controversial or “hateful” words before they are uttered may leave some feelings unhurt, but the price of insult-free living will be the destruction of authentic engagement between people. It will mean more social distrust, loneliness and isolation which are already an epidemic.
From His Hands September 13, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window As we inched forward, I watched him lift each host and place it into people’s hands. I was in awe that our son is so grown up.
St. Francis’ ‘Canticle of the Creatures’ at 800 endures as vision of redeemed creation September 13, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Saints, World News Eight centuries ago, St. Francis of Assisi composed a poem that remains familiar today, inspiring hymns, art and the titles of two of the late Pope Francis’ teaching documents on integral ecology.
New saint has special connection to nation’s capital with parish’s adoration chapel September 13, 2025By Mark Zimmermann Catholic Standard Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The ornate, intimate St. Pier Giorgio Frassati Chapel at Immaculate Conception Parish is believed to be one of the first adoration chapels in the Americas named for the new saint.
Pope Leo’s vocation took root in childhood; never ‘a doubt in anyone’s mind’ he’d be a priest September 13, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News As Pope Leo XIV neared his 70th birthday Sept. 14, those closest to the American-born pontiff said they knew, very early on, that he was in for lifelong service to the church.
Pew finds US Catholics ‘like what they’ve seen so far’ in Pope Leo September 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Catholics in the U.S. “like what they’ve seen so far” in Pope Leo XIV, with 8 in 10 viewing the new pope favorably — and significant numbers of non-Catholics agreeing, according to a new study from Pew Research Center.
Migrants are not enemies, just brothers and sisters in need, pope says September 12, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News At a time when people feel powerless to help migrants and refugees, Christians must continue to insist that “there is no justice without compassion, no legitimacy without listening to the pain of others,” Pope Leo XIV said.
Movie Review: ‘The Long Walk’ September 12, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews It’s a nonstop annual slog in which 50 teen boys, all at least 18 years old and chosen by lottery, walk more than 300 miles through a dystopian Midwest landscape, using their own food supplies with water provided, for as long as the walk lasts.
Movie Review: ‘Triumph of the Heart’ September 12, 2025By Joseph McAleer OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Saints A compelling new film, “Triumph of the Heart” (Outsider Pictures) dramatizes the real-life story of St. Maximilian’s martyrdom.
Suspect in Kirk assassination in custody, according to Trump, Utah governor September 12, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, World News President Donald Trump and law enforcement officials said Sept. 12 they had a suspect in custody in connection to the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk Sept. 10 during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
School Sister of Notre Dame Mary Michael Tashiro, former NDP teacher, dies at 93 September 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass will be offered Sept. 17 for School Sister of Notre Dame Mary Michael Tashiro at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Mary Michael, a former teacher at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, died Aug. 28. She was 93.
Will It Ever End? September 12, 2025By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Feature, Gun Violence If the Church is itself the sacrament of unity and charity, then we need to curb our speech, and more.
