Lisboa se llena de alegría en la apertura de la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud August 2, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: En Español Multitudes alegres y unidas en canto recorrían Lisboa mucho después de que terminara la Misa de apertura de la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud 2023, el 1 de agosto. El ambiente sorprendió incluso a quienes han vivido toda su vida en la capital portuguesa.
Lisbon basks in joy as World Youth Day opens August 2, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023 Joyful, singing crowds were walking through Lisbon long after the opening Mass of World Youth Day 2023 was over Aug. 1. The atmosphere surprised even those that lived in the Portuguese capital throughout their lives.
In Portugal for WYD, pope urges Europe to recover its ‘youthful heart’ August 2, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023 Arriving at the edge of the European continent for World Youth Day, Pope Francis urged Portuguese officials to return to their maritime roots by setting sail toward new horizons of hope and helping build a Europe “capable of recovering its youthful heart.”
5 Things to Know About the Aug. 5 Community Peacebuilding & Resource Fair, featuring a gun buyback August 2, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, Local News, News With more than $50,000 raised from Catholic parishes and individual donors, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is organizing a gun buyback and resource fair featuring a dozen community-based partners on Saturday, Aug. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m at Edmondson Village Shopping Center in West Baltimore.
Lawsuit seeks to block public funding for nation’s first religious charter school August 2, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News A lawsuit filed July 31 in Oklahoma is seeking to block state funding for what could become the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school if it survives the legal challenge.
Latest Trump indictment sends U.S. to ‘uncharted territory,’ according to Catholic historians August 2, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News Former President Donald Trump was indicted Aug. 1 by special counsel Jack Smith over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
From Westerplatte to Lisbon…and everywhere else August 2, 2023By George Weigel Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, World Youth Day Portugal 2023 John Paul, who had more pastoral contact with young adults than any pope in modern history, knew that young people wanted something more than ease: he understood from experience that deep within the young heart is a yearning for meaning, for nobility, for greatness.
Annual convention Mass challenges Knights of Columbus to be eucharistic, bring Christ to others August 2, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News The Knights of Columbus 141st Supreme Convention held Aug. 1-3 in Orlando gathered Knights, both lay and clergy, from all over the globe at the Orlando World Center Marriott, showing its international reach and “Catholic” nature of the brotherhood, encompassing men of diverse cultures, languages and continents all held together by the same faith in Jesus Christ.
Supreme Knight: Knights of Columbus deepen faith in Jesus, make charity personal August 2, 2023By Peter Jesserer Smith OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News In his address for the 141st Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus, Patrick Kelly illustrated how the Knights’ goal of being “first in faith, first in charity” drew its source from a commitment to follow Jesus Christ.
Years pass, the questions echo: Are Black Catholics truly ‘seen and heard’? August 2, 2023By Ansel Augustine OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Commentary, National Black Congress, Racial Justice July 2023 was a busy month for Black (specifically African American) Catholics.
Videogame Review: ‘Resident Evil 4’ August 2, 2023By Adele Chapline Smith OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Good but gruesome more or less sums up “Resident Evil 4” (Capcom).
Movie Review: ‘Talk to Me’ August 2, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Things get dark down under in the Australian horror yarn “Talk to Me.”