Video Game Review: ‘Atomic Heart’ March 9, 2023By Adele Chapline Smith OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Although “Atomic Heart” is set in an alternate version of the Soviet Union, the release of a game primarily focused on Russian military activity of any kind within days of the first anniversary of that nation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine registers as inappropriate at best and sinister at worst.
‘Have mercy and save us’: Ecumenical prayer service at national basilica pleads for peace in Ukraine March 8, 2023By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Marking the first anniversary of the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and praying that God will “have mercy and save us” and “convert those who foster aggression and war,” Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, led a March 7 ecumenical prayer service for peace at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.
Mother Lange canonization cause takes step forward March 8, 2023By Matthew Liptak Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Saints The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world’s first sustained women’s religious community for Black women, has taken a step forward.
Biden administration reportedly weighs reinstating family detention of unauthorized migrants March 8, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Biden administration is reportedly weighing whether to reinstate a policy of detaining migrant families who cross the border without authorization, a practice President Joe Biden condemned and ended when he took office. Catholic immigration advocates have vocally opposed the policy as well.
Movie Review: ‘Creed III’ March 8, 2023By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “Creed III,” the ninth film in the “Rocky” series, is a thinking-person’s sports drama that will appeal even to those with no particular interest in well-choreographed slugfests.
To be Christian is to share God’s love, pope says at audience March 8, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The mission to spread the Gospel message of God’s love and of salvation in Christ is entrusted to all the baptized who are called to work together and never set out alone, Pope Francis said.
Estadísticas del Vaticano muestran disminución del clero y de las religiosas en todo el mundo March 8, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español El número de católicos y diáconos permanentes en el mundo aumentó en 2021, mientras que el número de seminaristas, sacerdotes y hombres y mujeres en órdenes religiosas disminuyó, según las estadísticas del Vaticano.
Leap of faith: Jesuit priest is a master of Irish song and dance March 8, 2023By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News Irish dance is both individual and communal, Father Frain said, much like the practice of the Catholic faith.
Catholics concerned as U.S. child labor violations increase and lawmakers seek to weaken laws March 8, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News According to recently published reports and investigations, minors are toiling in some of the most dangerous conditions in American industry, such as construction, slaughterhouses and assembly lines.
Delaware bill would break seal of confession, require priest to report what penitent says March 8, 2023By Joe Owens OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments The Delaware General Assembly is taking aim at a basic tenet of the Catholic Church and wants to break the seal of confession between a priest and penitent.
A Lenten Search March 8, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, The Domestic Church This Lent, as we walk toward Easter, we have a beautiful opportunity to ask ourselves what is missing in our spiritual life and spend time just being with Jesus.
U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services advances relief efforts at home, abroad March 8, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Giving, News, World News The Catholic Relief Services Collection, an annual fund supporting Catholic Church organizations that carry out international relief efforts, will be taken up in March, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said.
