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Pope calls for ‘contextual theology’ that responds to modern questions

November 2, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Calling for a major push toward developing a “fundamentally contextual theology, capable of reading and interpreting the Gospel in the conditions in which men and women live each day,” Pope Francis has approved new statutes for the Pontifical Theological Academy.

Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon

November 2, 2023
By 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 during the week of Nov. 12, as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.

Does Purgatory really exist? ‘I hope so,’ said the priest

November 2, 2023
By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

In purgatory, we will finally become all we were created to be, what God deems what we’d call the “best version of ourselves.”

What’s allowed – and not – in Catholic funeral and burial practices

November 2, 2023
By Kurt Jensen
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

Burying the dead is a corporal act of mercy. Everything centers on the belief in the intact body, since baptism makes individuals temples of the Holy Spirit. Catholic belief is that upon death, the soul meets God, and God gives incorruptible life to bodies by reuniting them with their souls.

Praying for the dead

November 2, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen, Amen Gunty Commentary, Commentary

The things that weigh us down in this life – fatigue, difficult jobs, pain, injustice, our sins – will all be gone in heaven.

Archdiocese of Baltimore priests celebrate 565 years of milestones

November 2, 2023
By Sharon Crews Hare
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

The Archdiocese of Baltimore will honor archdiocesan priests celebrating milestone anniversaries with a Nov. 6 Mass at Sacred Heart in Glyndon. Together, the priests have served the local faith community 565 years. Among the honorees are Monsignor Joseph Lizor and Father Paul Thomas, two of the longest- serving priests of the archdiocese. Monsignor Lizor, ordained […]

Zombies, graves and autumnal gratitude

November 1, 2023
By Effie Caldarola
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

On All Souls and All Saints, we honor not just the dead whom we love and extol as examples; we proclaim our belief that this is not the end — that from the hallowed ground of our beloved dead comes the promise of the risen Lord, the empty tomb.

Catholic Charities reacts to ‘disturbing’ online threats to staff over migration work

November 1, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

Catholic Charities USA, the organization dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church in the United States, responded Oct. 31 to “disturbing” recent remarks by a social media influencer threatening its staff.

U.S. bishops object to inclusion of abortion in proposed federal sexual harassment guidance

November 1, 2023
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The U.S. Catholic bishops and other religious organizations have argued that the way the rule defines “pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions” to include abortion could result in pro-life views leading to a harassment charge.

Learn about the lives of saints, be moved by their examples, pope says

November 1, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News

Holiness is a gift everyone receives with baptism, and it is a journey to be made together with the help of the saints in heaven, Pope Francis said on the feast of All Saints.

Analysis: Rupnik affair challenges church to turn synod synthesis into concrete proposals in 2024

November 1, 2023
By Peter Jesserer Smith
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

The Rupnik affair poses a real test to not only the synod’s members, but the whole church, which has 11 months before the synod assembly reconvenes, to reflect on the synod’s synthesis report released Oct. 28 and discern what “co-responsible” decision-making should look like for governance of a “missionary synodal church.”

Violence in Holy Land shows need to support local Christians, cardinal says

November 1, 2023
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

As leaders of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem prepared to meet in Rome, the explosion of violence between Israel and Hamas highlighted the importance of their prayers and their material support for local Christians, leaders of the order said.

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