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Seminarians discern a closer walk with Jesus traveling the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage


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OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vocations, World News

Having seminarians join the five or six other young adult “perpetual pilgrims” and their priest and religious brother chaplains on each route provides the young men “a unique formational opportunity” that allows them “to also be a witness to other young men who may be discerning a vocation to the priesthood,” said Joel Stepanek, vice president of programming and administration for National Eucharistic Congress Inc.

First visit to Poland led to Iron Curtain’s fall, historians say 45 years after St. John Paul II landmark trip


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OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

Forty-five years ago, on June 2, St. John Paul II started his first papal pilgrimage to his native Poland, then shackled by a communist dictatorship. The visit had not only an enormous impact on the spiritual renewal of the Polish nation, paving the way for democratic changes, but it also inspired future freedom fighters in other parts of the Soviet empire.

Dr. Robert Redfield warns against ‘scientific arrogance,’ calls for increased biosecurity


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Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News

The coronavirus pandemic was just a dress rehearsal. Something bigger is coming, according to the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It’s not a question of if; it’s a question of when,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, a parishioner of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland who led the CDC from 2018 to 2021 and now is a disease and internal medicine physician at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.

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