Observation of holy day of obligation for Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception moved to Dec. 9 this year November 20, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments Archbishop William E. Lori announced that the observance of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be transferred to Dec. 9 this year.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon November 20, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
A pilgrim reflects upon traveling hundreds of miles with the Eucharist November 20, 2024By Kai Weiss OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist As one of the perpetual pilgrims who traveled with him for the entire two months, I got to experience the adventure of a lifetime.
Movie Review: ‘Here’ November 20, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Lady of letters Gertrude Stein once famously observed of Oakland, Calif., the city in which she was raised, “There is no there there.” As it turns out, there’s not much there to the drama “Here” (TriStar), either.
Question Corner: Is Dec. 9 a holy day of obligation this year? November 20, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments The solution for competing solemnities is to transfer the liturgical celebration of the non-Sunday holy day to the first subsequent available date. Thus, in the year 2024, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is celebrated in our liturgy on Monday, Dec. 9.
Report examines ‘persistent racial disparities’ in federal death penalty use November 20, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News As activists push President Joe Biden to commute existing federal death sentences during his final months in office, a new report by the Death Penalty Information Center examined what it called persistent racial disparities in federal death penalty prosecutions.
Movie Review: ‘Wicked’ November 19, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Considered purely from an artistic viewpoint, the lavish musical “Wicked” (Universal) represents a confluence of the best both Broadway and Hollywood have to offer. On a moral level, however, the film’s content, while largely free of overtly problematic material, nonetheless demands careful assessment.
Catholic groups merge events for giant pro-life youth rally before March for Life November 19, 2024By Zoey Maraist OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, Respect Life, World News Pro-life organizers are hoping to augment that sense of togetherness with the merger of two pre-march youth events, announced Nov. 14. The Diocese of Arlington, Va., and host of Life is VERY Good since 2009, and the Knights of Columbus and the Sisters of Life, co-hosts of Life Fest since 2022, are joining forces to create one big pro-life rally called Life Fest ahead of the 2025 March for Life Jan. 24.
Father Francis ‘Fritz’ Gollery welcomed back to priesthood after nearly 50 years November 19, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Almost exactly 50 years after Father Francis “Fritz” Gollery received permission to leave the priesthood, the 86-year-old clergyman has been reinstated as a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Archdiocesan priests mark milestone jubilees November 19, 2024By Eileen Hiebler Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Looking back on their decades of priestly ministry, the two longest-serving priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore are grateful for the opportunities to serve people at some of the most important moments in life – whether they be happy times such as marriages and baptisms or more difficult times of sickness, loss and death.
Pope prays for dialogue, reconciliation, peace in Ukraine November 19, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis prayed for a conversion of hearts and a start to dialogue, reconciliation and peace in a letter marking the 1,000th day since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Gudziak: Ukraine still stands due to ‘miraculous endurance’ of its people, God’s grace November 19, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As Russia’s full-scale invasion reached the 1,000-day mark Nov. 19, Ukraine still stands as “a testament to the miraculous endurance of our people, to God’s grace,” said Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
