New leaders begin new academic year in Baltimore-area Catholic schools September 15, 2025By Mitzy Deras Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools The following educators have begun new leadership positions in the 2025-26 academic year in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
‘Sister Flo’ ready to go; new leader named for Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat Center September 15, 2025By Jay Sorgi Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Youth Ministry Sister Florencia Silva Cabrera, known as “Sister Flo,” has arrived from her native Peru to serve as director of the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat Center in Sparks.
Thousands of visitors celebrate Pope Leo’s birthday in St. Peter’s Square September 14, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Dozens of small handmade signs and large bold banners waved in the crowd of some 30,000 visitors in St. Peter’s Square wishing Pope Leo XIV a happy birthday Sept. 14. Two gold mylar balloons with the numbers “7” and “0” were held up high.
Erika Kirk urges nation to embrace faith, family, patriotism after husband’s killing September 14, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, World News The widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk delivered an address Sept. 12, vowing that his legacy would live on and urging the nation, particularly its youth, to embrace faith, family and the controversial movement he founded.
England’s house afire amid the limitations on free speech September 14, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Religious Freedom Stopping difficult, controversial or “hateful” words before they are uttered may leave some feelings unhurt, but the price of insult-free living will be the destruction of authentic engagement between people. It will mean more social distrust, loneliness and isolation which are already an epidemic.
From His Hands September 13, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window As we inched forward, I watched him lift each host and place it into people’s hands. I was in awe that our son is so grown up.
New saint has special connection to nation’s capital with parish’s adoration chapel September 13, 2025By Mark Zimmermann Catholic Standard Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The ornate, intimate St. Pier Giorgio Frassati Chapel at Immaculate Conception Parish is believed to be one of the first adoration chapels in the Americas named for the new saint.
St. Francis’ ‘Canticle of the Creatures’ at 800 endures as vision of redeemed creation September 13, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Saints, World News Eight centuries ago, St. Francis of Assisi composed a poem that remains familiar today, inspiring hymns, art and the titles of two of the late Pope Francis’ teaching documents on integral ecology.
Pew finds US Catholics ‘like what they’ve seen so far’ in Pope Leo September 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Catholics in the U.S. “like what they’ve seen so far” in Pope Leo XIV, with 8 in 10 viewing the new pope favorably — and significant numbers of non-Catholics agreeing, according to a new study from Pew Research Center.
Pope Leo’s vocation took root in childhood; never ‘a doubt in anyone’s mind’ he’d be a priest September 13, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News As Pope Leo XIV neared his 70th birthday Sept. 14, those closest to the American-born pontiff said they knew, very early on, that he was in for lifelong service to the church.
Migrants are not enemies, just brothers and sisters in need, pope says September 12, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News At a time when people feel powerless to help migrants and refugees, Christians must continue to insist that “there is no justice without compassion, no legitimacy without listening to the pain of others,” Pope Leo XIV said.
Movie Review: ‘The Long Walk’ September 12, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews It’s a nonstop annual slog in which 50 teen boys, all at least 18 years old and chosen by lottery, walk more than 300 miles through a dystopian Midwest landscape, using their own food supplies with water provided, for as long as the walk lasts.
