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School Sisters of Notre Dame sell Villa Assumpta to Baltimore senior housing nonprofit

March 26, 2026
By Jay Sorgi
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News

Villa Assumpta, the longtime regional motherhouse for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, will be redeveloped into a nonprofit continuing care community for senior living.

Saint’s relic in Hunt Valley brings comfort to cancer families

March 26, 2026
By Jay Sorgi
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints

About 50 pilgrims arrived Feb. 6 for the weekly prayer gathering at the chapel of the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier in Hunt Valley, some traveling across state lines. In the presence of a first-order relic of St. Michael of the Saints, a 17th-century Spanish priest and member of the Trinitarians known for his deep devotion to the Eucharist, the names flowed like water.

A simple guide to Holy Week

March 26, 2026
By Heidi Busse
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Lent

During this special time, we enter into the passion of Christ — his Crucifixion, death and Resurrection — through liturgical celebration and personal conversion.

Shrine is a place of prayer, pilgrimage and ‘encounter’ with St. John Paul II’s life, legacy

March 25, 2026
By Richard Szczepanowski
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

St. John Paul II “changed the Church and the world, and you can encounter that here” at the national shrine in Washington named for the Polish pope, said Grattan Brown, the shrine’s director of mission and ministry.

BMA exhibition highlights how Matisse reimagined the Stations of the Cross

March 25, 2026
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News, Video

In spare black-and-white lines – almost graffiti-like in their directness – Matisse grouped all 14 Stations together in an expansive mural more than six feet tall.

The Donatist comeback

March 25, 2026
By George Weigel
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference

The strange, Donatist parallelism between the SSPX leadership and the German Synodal Path illustrates what’s come to be called the “horseshoe effect:” in a moment of cultural turbulence, social fragmentation, and political dysfunction like our own, the extremes of left and right bend toward each other rather than occupying two ends of a linear spectrum.

Who was Venerable Father Flanagan, Boys Town founder?

March 25, 2026
By Deacon Omar F.A. Gutierrez
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Saints

Father Flanagan is an icon of the power of diaconal identity. It both shows us and makes effective now the power of Christ the Servant. Where Father Flanagan saw pain, he rushed in and embraced the child of God who suffered. When he saw injustice, he spoke out eloquently and forcefully called others to greater charity in Christ.

Question Corner: Does holy water ‘absolve’ us from venial sin?

March 25, 2026
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

With respect to holy water in particular, St. Thomas Aquinas specifically identifies the “sprinkling of holy water” as a means for the remission of venial sin in question 87, article 3 of the “Third Part” of his work the “Summa Theologica.”

Via Crucis: The final Holy Week journey of Pope Francis

March 25, 2026
By Junno Arocho Esteves
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

Following his release from Gemelli Hospital in March 2025, Pope Francis was prescribed two months of rest by doctors to recover after five weeks of hospitalization. Outside of a few brief appearances, it was widely expected that the pope would be seen little during Holy Week.

Meet the Catholic filmmaker behind a new series on ‘Women of the Bible’

March 25, 2026
By Katie Yoder
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

When veteran writer and producer René Echevarria began working on a new show featuring women of the Bible, he knew the project was an answer to prayer.

The miracle of a living kidney donor: Virginia man realizes the power of persistent prayer

March 25, 2026
By Ann M. Augherton
OSV News
Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News

He was put on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. More than 94,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney transplant, according to national data. Many never receive one.

Air Canada crash shows ‘fragility of life,’ call to compassion, says Archbishop Hicks

March 24, 2026
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: News, World News

The fatal crash of an Air Canada jet at New York’s La Guardia airport is a reminder of “the fragility of life,” and the call to “care for one another with compassion,” said Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks.

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