Everyone can be a good Samaritan, pope says in message for world’s sick January 20, 2026By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News People of faith and goodwill need to take time to acknowledge the needs and suffering of those around them and be moved by love and compassion to offer others concrete help, Pope Leo XIV said.
In Baltimore, faithful walk for peace in Martin Luther King Jr.’s spirit January 20, 2026By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice Now in its 13th year, the annual walk is sponsored by St. Bernardine and Historic St. Peter Claver in memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Monsignor Edward Michael Miller, a former St. Bernardine pastor who died in December 2013 while preparing for Sunday Mass.
‘It must be you’: A call to mission with young Latinos January 20, 2026By Vicente Del Real OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration Although Latinos are one of the fastest growing populations in the country and make up a large portion of the young Catholic Church, nearly half of Latino young adults are leaving the faith.
Pope encourages Neocatechumenal Way to continue mission ‘without closing yourselves off’ January 20, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, News, Vatican, World News The zeal to evangelize and announce the Gospel must be tempered with charity and respect for an individual’s conscience, Pope Leo XIV told members of the Neocatechumenal Way.
Scott Adams and the legitimacy of imperfect confession January 19, 2026By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments Given that his “Dilbert” cartoon spoofed corporate life, it seems fitting Adams approached the idea of religious conversion as a dryly analytical risk-return computation. To some his thinking recalled “Pascal’s wager,” in which 17th-century mathematician Blaise Pascal reasoned that a 50 percent probability of God’s existence represented a bet worth making.
Rev. King led ‘revolution of conscience’ on racism, discrimination, cardinal says January 19, 2026By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Racial Justice, World News The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a “revolution of conscience” and sought “the conversion of hearts,” Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said during a Jan. 18 Mass remembering the late Civil Rights leader.
U.S. cardinals call for ‘genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation’ January 19, 2026By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Conflict in the Caribbean, Feature, News, World News Three U.S. cardinals have issued a joint statement urging the creation of a “genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation,” as the U.S. faces “the most profound and searing debate about the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world since the end of the Cold War.”
Archbishop Broglio: ‘Morally acceptable’ for troops to disobey ‘morally questionable’ orders on Greenland January 19, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News The head of the U.S. military archdiocese said in a Jan. 18 radio interview that U.S. soldiers could in good conscience disobey orders to participate in an invasion of Greenland.
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by deadly high-speed train collision in Spain January 19, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV expressed his condolences to the families of victims of a devastating accident in which two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain’s Andalucia region.
Charges for pro-life activists over disruption at abortion clinic dismissed in plea deal January 19, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Six pro-life activists, most of them Catholics, arrested last year for disrupting the activities of an abortion clinic in Pennsylvania as part of a Red Rose Rescue, have had their charges dismissed in a plea deal.
Pope Leo warns against chasing approval, calls for deeper spiritual focus January 19, 2026By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Approval, public consensus and visibility are often given undue importance in modern society, shaping how people think, behave and even understand themselves, Pope Leo XIV warned in his Jan. 18 Angelus address. That focus, he warned, can lead to personal suffering, social division and relationships that are fragile and ultimately disappointing.
Radio Interview: Lent and Pope Leo January 19, 2026By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Books, CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vatican Deacon Greg Kandra is a writer, retreat leader, blogger and author. Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty chatted with Deacon Kandra about his most recent book, “Peace Be with All of You: The Mission and Message of Pope Leo XIV,” from Word Among Us.
