St. John the Evangelist in Severna Park undergoing dramatic renovation February 3, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News After years of planning, St. John the Evangelist Church in Severna Park is undergoing extensive renovations that will give the house of worship a completely new look and an opportunity to highlight its patron saint.
You have my permission to cry and shout February 3, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary How many of us are walking around with broken hearts because we won’t permit ourselves the medicine of weeping and fully feeling the things we’ve determinedly repressed because we want that illusion of strength?
AI must serve, not replace, teacher-student relationship, Vatican says February 2, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Schools, Vatican, World News The use of artificial intelligence in schools must not threaten “the indispensable relationship between teacher and student” that lies at the heart of education, the Vatican said.
For 125 years, society has had a mission to produce Catholic resources for the blind February 2, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, Feature, News, World News The Xavier Society for the Blind is celebrating 125 years of helping generations of Catholics, either blind or vision-impaired, participate in worship through braille texts, large-type books and audio books.
New N.Y. law seen as big step in ‘rooting out exploitation’ in fashion industry February 2, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Catholic Social Teaching, News, World News The Fashion Workers Act, signed into law Dec. 21 by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, takes effect in June. It will afford models a host of employment safeguards in an industry where many say they have previously felt mute and isolated.
Sister Kathleen Kelly, S.S.N.D., dies at 92 February 1, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Uncategorized A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Kathleen Marcella Kelly was offered Oct. 24 at St. Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh. Sister Kathleen died Oct. 17. She was 92.
Sts. Louis and Zélie: St. Thérèse’s parents are models of love and devotion February 1, 2025By Lance Richey OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Saints, World News As the second married couple to be declared saints (along with Sts. Anne and Joachim, the parents of Mary), and the first to be canonized together, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin offer a model of the vocation to love and holiness that is at the heart of the sacrament of marriage.
Consecrated life is ‘a call to remember Jesus at every moment,’ says expert February 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Ahead of the World Day for Consecrated Life Feb. 2 — an observance that was instituted in 1997 by St. John Paul II and is attached to the feast of the Presentation of the Lord — OSV News spoke with Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life And Vocations.
School’s head cook uses her culinary skills to help kids grow in their faith February 1, 2025By Amber Walling OSV News Filed Under: News, Schools, World News Stephanie Nix will be the first person to tell you that she did not take the head cook position at the school just because she loves to prepare food. For her, it’s helping kids grow in their faith.
Audited financials show claims the church profits from refugee work ‘just wrong’ January 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Claims that the U.S. bishops’ conference profits from its partnership with the government to assist refugee populations that qualify for federal assistance, and that the Catholic Church facilitates illegal immigration are “just wrong,” said William Canny, the U.S. bishops’ migration director.
Senators grill RFK Jr. on abortion, vaccine views in HHS confirmation hearings January 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News In a pair of January confirmation hearings, senators considered President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services.
Amid violent clashes, Colombian church crucial in assisting devastated Catatumbo communities January 31, 2025By Eduardo Campos Lima OSV News Filed Under: News, World News The armed confrontation between two guerrilla organizations in Catatumbo, a region in the northern part of Colombia, has caused at least 80 deaths and the displacement of 48,000 residents since Jan. 16.
