Pope visits pediatric oncology ward, baptizes infant March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis used his third day at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament of baptism on a tiny infant named Miguel Angel.
Movie Review: ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ March 31, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews A voyage through the forbidding landscape known to insiders as the Underdark is as jolly as a skip down the Yellow Brick Road in “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” (Paramount).
Catholic group pushing for inclusive housing in city March 31, 2023By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Social Justice Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are helping lead the push for new legislation that would cement inclusionary housing practices into law in Baltimore City.
Additional charges filed in Vatican finance trial March 31, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s prosecuting attorney has leveled additional charges against four of the defendants who have been on trial since July 2021 for their alleged roles in the Vatican’s failed investment in a property in London.
El Papa saldrá del hospital tras tres días de hospitalización debido a bronquitis March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español El Papa Francisco disfrutó de una “fiesta” con pizza con el personal en su segunda noche en el hospital Gemelli de Roma y se esperaba que fuera dado de alta del hospital el 1 de abril, dijo la oficina de prensa del Vaticano.
Grand jury votes to indict former President Donald Trump, shaking up 2024 campaign March 31, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News According to media reports, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump on March 30 for his alleged role in paying hush money to an adult film actress in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, marking the first time in American history that a current or former president has faced criminal charges.
Lasting peace can exist only without weapons, pope says March 31, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Vatican, World News A culture of nonviolence will become more widespread when countries and citizens resort less and less to the use of weapons, Pope Francis said.
Sulpician Father Louis Reitz dies at 93 March 30, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Sulpician Father Louis M. Reitz will be offered at 11 a.m. on April 5 at Our Lady of the Angels in Catonsville. Father Reitz died March 27.
Sister Regina Marie de l’Eucharistie Loftus dies at 86 March 30, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Little Sister of the Poor Regina Marie de l’Eucharistie Loftus will be offered March 31 at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel of St. Martin’s Home for the Aged in Catonsville. Sister Regina died March 27. She was 86.
U.S. Catholic bishops call on faithful to pray for Pope Francis’ recovery during hospitalization March 30, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Vatican, World News After the Vatican said Pope Francis was hospitalized for a pulmonary infection March 29, Catholic bishops in the United States called on the faithful to pray for the Holy Father’s recovery.
Responding to Indigenous, Vatican disavows ‘doctrine of discovery’ March 30, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church formally “repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political ‘doctrine of discovery,'” a Vatican statement said.
Fullerton Passion Walk a ‘deeply moving’ experience March 30, 2023By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News The “Passion Walk,” a series of 18 near-life-size dimensional sets depicting the final days in the life of Jesus, is not unlike what one might see at a theater production.
