Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV will formally begin his ministry as bishop of Rome with a liturgy steeped in tradition and rich in symbolism May 18.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews
More than 20 years ago, Kate Stapleton stood on the shores of Lake Michigan and made the heart-wrenching decision to place her daughter for adoption. What happened afterward is captured in the new documentary “The Inner Sea” — a film Kate believes may be the first directed by and created from the perspective of a birth mother.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, social media, Vatican, World News
While Pope Leo XIV has deleted the account he began as Father Robert F. Prevost on Twitter, now X, in 2011, the Vatican has launched new accounts for him on X and Instagram.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Western Vicariate
Two days after torrential rain caused flooding in the Georges Creek Valley in Western Maryland, Father Scott Kady, pastor of Divine Mercy Parish felt blessed.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
The Catholic Church wants to reach out and embrace all people who need and yearn for truth, justice and peace, Pope Leo XIV said in his first meeting with the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries
A funeral Mass for Sister of St. Francis of Assisi Valerie Jarzembowski (formerly Sister Raymond) was offered May 8 at her religious community’s motherhouse in Wisconsin. Sister Valerie died April 29. She was 89.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Saints, World News
St. Monica is the patron saint of mothers, women in difficult marriages and alcoholics. She died in the fourth century in the coastal town of Ostia, Italy, about 13 miles west of Rome.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
This is what the seven days of papacy tell about the first American pope and how his predecessors spent their honeymoon in the Vatican.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Thanking Pope Leo XIV for his prayers for Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church gave the pope a painting and a list of prisoners the Ukrainians want the Vatican’s help in liberating.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools
With Dr. Donna Hargen’s strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it seemed appropriate for a farewell Mass and dinner for the retiring schools superintendent to be held May 13, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments May 15 over the Trump administration’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents without legal status or temporary visa holders, and whether federal judges could properly block that order.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News
Dialogue and bridge-building have emerged as early indicators of what Pope Leo XIV’s interreligious approach to Jews and Muslims may look like, giving hope that Pope Francis-era advances in the church’s interfaith relations will continue, experts told OSV News.
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