Papal envoy visits Russia to discuss humanitarian situation in Ukraine October 16, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Pope Francis’ envoy for peace in Ukraine, returned to Moscow in mid-October for meetings with Russian government officials and leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Catholics have ‘duty to protect’ all human life, bishop says at New Jersey Mass for Life October 16, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Before the standing-room-only congregation gathered in Trenton’s St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral for the first statewide Mass for Life, Bishop David M. O’Connell framed his homily around the words “Duty to Protect” when it comes to protecting all human life, especially “the child in their mother’s womb, the child in the mother’s arms and beyond.
Movie Review: ‘Piece by Piece’ October 16, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews There’s much to like and even admire in the animated biography “Piece by Piece” (Focus). Most significantly, as a Lego version of singer, songwriter and music producer Pharrell Williams explores his past via an extended interview with director and co-writer Morgan Neville, the film highlights its subject’s Christian faith.
Question Corner: If most of us go to purgatory at death, are Catholics ‘saved?’ October 16, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Although purgatory is not exactly a “punishment” in the way we would tend to use the term today, traditionally purgatory has been understood to involve a degree of suffering.
Proclaim the good news in this election cycle October 16, 2024By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary You don’t need to attack a candidate to explain why this policy that he has proposed, or that action that her administration has taken, doesn’t align with Catholic teaching.
Synod on Amazon opened the way for synod on synodality, cardinal says October 16, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News The Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, which met in Rome in 2019, paved the way for the current synod on synodality, said the region’s top cardinal.
D.C. cardinal urges prayer, reflection before November elections October 15, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington said he hopes U.S. voters who are as concerned as he is about the “anger and vitriol” of the current election cycle will take time away from the media to think and pray about the values important to them as Catholics.
As Israel’s Lebanon campaign escalates, displaced Christians wait for ‘miracle to end this misery’ October 15, 2024By Leo Morawiecki OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News As Israel has escalated its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon across a United Nations-drawn boundary between the two countries, more than a million people have fled their homes.
Hail Mary: ‘Now, and at the hour of our death’ October 15, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary The “Hail Mary” reminds us that life is short. By asking the Blessed Virgin Mary to pray for us not only now but when we will need her intercession most, we prayerfully place the rest of our earthly lives in her maternal hands.
D-A-N-G-E-R: Ouija board, whose history is deeply rooted in Baltimore, isn’t innocent fun October 15, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Feature, Local News, News “The spiritual world is real,” Father Boric said. “When you use a Ouija board, you’re really opening yourself up to something very dangerous. You’re opening yourself up to the devil and his lesser angels – and they can really do harm, just as the good angels really do a tremendous amount of good.”
Applications open to Loyola’s Baltipreneurs Accelerator October 15, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Local News, News Loyola University Maryland’s Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship is looking for applications for the center’s sixth Baltipreneurs Accelerator, a four-month, part-time program supporting startup businesses and social ventures with training, technical assistance, mentorship, networking and access to capital.
Mission accomplished: Pope to declare 14 new saints October 15, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The celebration of World Mission Sunday is a popular day for a pope to canonize new saints — not only those who ministered or gave up their lives in lands traditionally known as mission territories, but women and men from every walk of life and from around the world.
