Incoming superior general of Oblate Sisters of Providence outlines priorities June 12, 2025By Carole Norris Greene Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations When Sister Marcia Hall was elected in April as the next superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, the nation’s oldest functioning Black Catholic religious order, she would have to wait for her new administration to meet to prioritize goals for their four-year tenure.
Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and associate pastor assignments June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Appointments, Feature, Local News, News Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and associate pastor assignments
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by tragic Air India plane crash June 12, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to victims’ families after an Air India flight headed to London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after takeoff in the western city of Ahmedabad.
Television Review: ‘Patience,’ June 15, and streaming, PBS June 12, 2025By Garan Santicola OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The British-Belgian crime drama “Patience” premieres on PBS Sunday, June 15, 8-9 p.m. EDT. The six-part series will continue in the same timeslot through July 20 while also streaming on station-based PBS platforms.
While the U.S. bishops go on retreat this June, business follows them June 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Uncategorized Since the bishops last met in Baltimore last November, the United States has sworn in a new president and the College of Cardinals has elected a new pope.
Diversity is cause for strength, not division, pope tells Rome clergy June 12, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The cultural and pastoral diversity among clergy is not a burden but a gift that should enrich communion within the church rather than fragment it, Pope Leo XIV told the priests and deacons of the Diocese of Rome.
Oblate Sister Trinita Baeza, teacher and pastoral associate in Baltimore, dies at 98 June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass will be offered June 17 for Oblate Sister of Providence Trinita Baeza, who served her order for 81 years. The graduate of St. Frances Academy in Baltimore died June 8. She was 98.
Pope Leo to return to practice of ‘imposing’ pallium on new archbishops June 12, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Bishops, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV will revive a tradition begun by St. John Paul II in 1983 by personally placing a pallium around the shoulders of recently named archbishops.
Comfort my people: Unexpected surprises in life June 12, 2025By Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre OSV News Filed Under: Commentary The thing that most of us probably find most challenging is that in it all we are ultimately called to endurance and patience, and to humbly and attentively seek to accomplish what sets itself before us.
A father’s gift June 12, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church When I think of our Father in heaven, I like to imagine him being a little like my father on Earth – looking at a problem and finding a way to solve it that I can’t see.
As chaotic demonstrations erupt across U.S., Catholic experts counsel nonviolence June 12, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News It’s an important precept of Catholic citizenship: Ethical disagreement with public policy — and a desire to peacefully change it — is a worthy undertaking.
Mexican bishops express solidarity with migrants amid protests in U.S. cities June 12, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed solidarity with migrants “suffering persecution and violence” in the United States amid protests roiling Los Angeles.
