Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Catholics working to address the nation’s fentanyl problem told OSV News a new congressional report naming China — and blaming its government — as the key source of the drug is important but old news, and that healing rising rates of addiction ultimately demands divine assistance.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, World News
As Haiti’s capital spirals into lawlessness, a longtime U.S. missionary has been forced to evacuate — while Haitian Catholics in the U.S. are doubling down on prayer for their troubled homeland.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
A funeral Mass for Daughter of Charity Sister Mary Louise Zollars was offered April 12 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg. Sister Mary Louise died April 5. She was 91.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Pope Pius VII, a prisoner of Napoleon from 1809 to 1814, endured humiliation but successfully resisted all attempts to fracture the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News
Catholic university professor Samuel Shephard suggests that Catholics can bring a unique viewpoint to Earth Day, celebrated April 22, because “as Catholics, we can understand we’re doing that as stewards of creation.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
When Jesus called himself the “good shepherd,” he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important to him and “that he thinks of each of us as the love of his life,” Pope Francis said.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools
The Archdiocese of Baltimore honored the academic excellence of three seniors from each of the 18 Catholic high schools within the Archdiocese of Baltimore during the 32nd annual Distinctive Scholars Convocation, held April 18 at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints
The dragon-slaying tale of St. George is most likely mythological. The saint is not. But who was this elusive figure? With the Feast of St. George coming up April 23, George Matysek talks with Hanael Bianchi, author of “St. George’s Day: A Cultural History of England’s National Holiday.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S. are breathing a sigh of relief and prayers of gratitude, after a bill for aid to Ukraine cleared the House of Representatives following months of delay, political infighting and even openly anti-Ukrainian sentiment among some lawmakers.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
A bipartisan coalition the U.S. House of Representatives, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., voted April 20 to approve a $95 billion package providing aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and other U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific region, over the objections of some far-right lawmakers who indicated they would attempt to remove Johnson from his role over the deal.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more “auto-referential” and withdraw itself from the international stage and universal church, Pope Francis’ representative to the United States said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
The pope’s diplomats are men of faith located all over the world to uphold the pope’s positions on international matters, to edify the universal church and to serve the Gospel, said Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister.
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