Question Corner: For those who avoid meat anyway, is there another Lenten Friday penance? March 7, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner if you personally feel that Friday abstinence during Lent is not enough of a sacrifice to be spiritually beneficial for you, you are certainly free to incorporate another penitential practice in addition to abstinence on Fridays.
Movie Review: ‘Dune: Part Two’ March 7, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews If its 2021 predecessor was a fine film, “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) is nothing short of a knockout.
Two who didn’t run March 7, 2024By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference Both Stanley Rother and Alexei Navalny exemplified the cardinal virtue of courage, which is also a gift of the Holy Spirit.
Bishop near Rome decrees alleged Marian apparitions ‘not supernatural’ March 6, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Since 2016, Gisella Cardia has claimed to be seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in the central Italian town of Trevignano Romano, some 30 miles north of Rome, after bringing a statue of Mary with her from a trip to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, which she said began to shed tears.
Ukrainian Catholic church in Curtis Bay closes March 6, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, a historic parish that has served the Ukrainian community for more than a century, celebrated its last Divine Liturgy Feb. 25 with 13 people in attendance.
Supreme Court’s Trump ballot ruling shows agreement amid differences over scope, prof says March 6, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News The U.S. Supreme Court ruled March 4 that the 14th Amendment does not permit Colorado to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, as doing so would be a matter for Congress, not the states.
Catholics call for vigilance as more legislatures advance medically assisted suicide bills March 6, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News While those who support euthanasia and medically assisted suicide emphasize empowerment and control, Catholic opponents argue an undeniably dangerous and dystopian dimension has begun to emerge in the sometimes profit-driven realms of health care insurance and medicine: the cost-benefit ratio of prescribing death for terminal patients versus palliative care.
Pope, still recovering from illness, urges the prideful not to judge March 6, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis urged prideful people to recall one of Jesus’ moral commandments to “never judge.”
As Haiti descends into more chaos, priests vow to stay and minister to the people March 6, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News As the nation of Haiti spirals into further violence and chaos, Catholic clergy there are reported to be remaining in place to serve the populace.
Mission by mail March 6, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary God can and does use anything and everything to reach us, to communicate his love, to connect us to one another. It seems that a mission to spread the joy of the Gospel can be conducted by mail.
Movie Review: ‘Cabrini’ March 6, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Saints By combining visual craftsmanship with dramatic force and evoking a powerful performance from Cristiana Dell’Anna in the title role, director Alejandro Monteverde delivers a riveting retrospective.
Politicization of migration policy is causing a migrant standstill March 6, 2024By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration There are two major policy goals needed at this time. We need not only better border management, but also the distinctive compassion of past immigration policies, such as family reunification and attention to our labor needs and to immigrant workers.
