A crab feast like no other for parishioners of New All Saints August 20, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News There are crab feasts, and then there are crab feasts such as what’s offered at New All Saints in Liberty Heights.
Nicaragua extinguishes legal status for religious orders, evangelical congregations August 20, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organizations, including religious orders such as the Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians, another diocesan Caritas chapter, and lay Catholic groups, as part of an attack on civil society with the closure of 1,500 nongovernmental organizations.
Christian convert imprisoned in Egypt declares hunger strike; advocates urge his release August 20, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A Christian convert in Egypt who has been imprisoned for more than two years for publicly speaking about his conversion has declared a hunger strike, prompting religious freedom advocates to increase their calls for his release.
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Biden administration’s new Title IX rule August 20, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court Aug. 16 declined to allow the Biden administration to enforce portions of a new regulation expanding Title IX protections from sex discrimination to include students who identify as transgender while legal challenges to the rule proceed.
Pro-life Democrats urge their party to seek alternatives as convention spotlights abortion August 20, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The pro-life group Democrats for Life of America urged their party to work on policies that offer women and families support in an effort to reduce abortion at an event near the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where support for abortion was very much on display.
Biden passes torch to Harris on the Democratic National Convention’s opening night August 20, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News President Joe Biden both sought to cement his own legacy and pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer during his address at the opening night of the Democratic National Convention.
Sharing God’s love can make a difference in the world, cardinal says August 20, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Uncategorized Writing on behalf of Pope Francis, Cardinal Parolin said a joint commitment to sharing God’s love for every person “can generate a new world, where the love that was shown to us in Christ triumphs in the end, and the entire planet becomes a temple of fraternity.”
No warranty needed August 19, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window ’Tis the season for back-to-school shopping, and last week I found myself at the computer store, picking up a laptop. The store employee behind the counter rang up the purchase and then looked at me. “Do you want to get the warranty on that?” “No,” I said. “It costs almost half the price of the […]
Suplician Father Gerald L. Brown, who welcomed pope to St. Mary’s seminary, dies at 85 August 19, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Sulpician Father Gerald L. Brown was offered Aug. 19 at Our Lady of the Angels in Catonsville. Father Brown died Aug. 11. He was 85.
N.J. diocese, priests sue federal government over religious worker visa rule change August 19, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations, World News A New Jersey diocese and several priests are suing the federal government over a rule change in religious worker visas, in a case that highlights the perfect storm created by the nation’s shifting immigration policies and the Catholic Church in the United States’ increased reliance on foreign-born clergy amid a downward trend of domestic vocations to the priesthood.
World Humanitarian Day highlights tragic record sacrifice of aid workers in war zones August 19, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As the world commemorates World Humanitarian Day 2024, the latest figures on the dire circumstances aid workers face on the frontline highlight the alarming increase in attacks against them and their work to relieve the suffering of civilians caught in the crossfire.
Woman religious who was Our Lady of Akita visionary dies at 93 on feast of Assumption August 19, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Obituaries, World News A Japanese woman religious and Marian visionary has died some five decades after witnessing the miraculous weeping of a statue of Mary and receiving urgent messages to pray in reparation for humanity’s sins.
