Sister Sharon Slear advances passion for women’s empowerment March 12, 2024By Todd Karpovich Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Schools It’s no stretch to call School Sister of Notre Dame Sharon Slear a crusader for empowering women and the underdog.
New Catholic trade schools prepare vocational careers and spiritual vocations March 12, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Schools, World News Students pursue paths in construction, business, education and information technology. Graduates gain a foundation — once certified — for jobs immediately upon graduation or college study.
Ukrainian Catholic bishops, ambassador say Ukraine has ‘no choice but to defend’ itself March 11, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Ukraine’s Greek Catholic bishops, led by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, have said their nation will continue to fight Russian aggression, “notwithstanding the suggestions for need for negotiations coming from representatives of different countries, including the Holy Father himself.
Church leaders decry biggest kidnapping of pupils in Nigeria since Chibok girls’ abduction March 11, 2024By Tonny Onyuolo OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Recent kidnappings of hundreds of people in Nigeria, including almost 300 schoolchildren March 7 in Kuriga in the central part of the country, have left church leaders and parents, including Catholics, speechless in the face of another wave of senseless violence.
Polish diocesan phase closes in cause of Catholic midwife who delivered babies at Auschwitz March 11, 2024By Filip Mazurczak OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Stanislawa Leszczynska, a Polish midwife imprisoned at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi Germany-occupied Poland, delivered 3,000 babies of different nationalities and treated them and their mothers with heroic humanity.
Radio Interview: The Oscars March 11, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty and guest co-host Ann Augherton of the Arlington Catholic Herald talk with John Mulderig of OSV News and Daughter of St. Paul Sister Rose Pacatte about the best films of the year.
Jesus wants all people to be saved, pope says at Angelus March 11, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Christians should pray for the grace to look at others with the same mercy and care with which Jesus looks at them, Pope Francis said.
Irish voters resoundingly reject proposals to redefine family, undermine motherhood March 11, 2024By Michael Kelly OSV News Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, World News The Irish prime minister, known as the Taoiseach, has conceded that his government was defeated “comprehensively” when voters rejected amendments to the constitution that the country’s bishops warned would have weakened supports for marriage and undermined motherhood.
Zelenskyy, Ukrainian church, respond to pope’s call for negotiations March 11, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis’ comment that Ukraine should have the “courage of the white flag” and engage in negotiation to end its war with Russia was dismissed by the Ukrainian government and church leaders.
Little lost dog March 11, 2024By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Domestic Church Like Veronica, who wipes Jesus’ face on the way to Calvary, and Simon of Cyrene who helps Jesus carry his cross, people we might not even know – or know well – are ready to walk beside us and lighten our load.
Embrace the eucharistic dynamic: change the world March 11, 2024By David Spesia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist Jesus wants to transform all those relationships and situations which cause us pain, and he waits for us to invite him into this redemptive work.
U.S. bishops’ annual religious freedom essay contest opens for high schoolers March 11, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News High school juniors and seniors are invited to enter an annual religious liberty essay contest hosted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty, along with the USCCB Secretariat of Catholic Education and Our Sunday Visitor Institute.
