A little soap for the nation’s potty mouth November 25, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary This Advent, as we barrel toward Christmas, let’s make an early resolution to dial back the potty mouth.
Archbishop Coakley celebrates annual Native American Mass at Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine November 25, 2025By Sally Linhart Sooner Catholic Filed Under: News, World News Facing east toward the altar of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, Deacon Roy Callison burned cedar as his wife, Susan, recited the first of the four invocations in the Prayer in the Four Directions, a traditional spiritual practice rooted in Indigenous culture.
Marriage is an exclusive union requiring ‘tender care,’ Vatican says November 25, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News The foundation of sacramental marriage is the unity of the spouses, a bond so intense and grace-filled that it is exclusive and indissoluble, said a document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Relic of St. Francis of Assisi coming to Ellicott City November 25, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, News, Saints A relic of St. Francis of Assisi – a fragment of the very cord he wore around his waist – will travel from Assisi, Italy, to the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City for an outdoor live Nativity prayer service Dec. 13 at 7 p.m.
‘Makes you feel like God is here’: Archbishop Lori dedicates renovated O’Dwyer Retreat Center Chapel November 25, 2025By Jay Sorgi Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News The true spiritual center of the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat Center in Sparks has been reconstructed in a way that better leads retreatants to encounter a central part of the Catholic experience: Jesus in the Eucharist.
The meaning of Thanksgiving November 25, 2025By Marcellino D'Ambrosio OSV News Filed Under: Commentary True thanksgiving is not just a matter of words and warm sentiments. Gratitude for a gift means offering a gift in return.
Loyola University forensic science students help identify victim in cold case November 25, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Loyola University Maryland forensic science students recently played a pivotal role in helping identify a woman who died in 1971, bringing a family some closure in one of Howard County’s oldest homicide cold cases.
This Thanksgiving, Please Pass the Rutabaga November 24, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window To be clear, I wouldn’t describe myself as a rutabaga enthusiast. It’s just that you can’t have Thanksgiving without rutabaga.
Bishops: Affordable housing, just wages, environmental safeguards reduce food insecurity November 24, 2025By OSV News The B.C. Catholic Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News On the World Day of the Poor, Nov. 16,the bishops released “Our Daily Bread: Food Security and the Call to Solidarity,” a 10-page pastoral letter issued through the conference’s Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace.
White Sox co-owner says pope told him he’d ‘love to’ throw a season opening pitch in future November 24, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: News, Sports, Vatican, World News A stakeholder — and next owner — of the Chicago White Sox baseball team said Pope Leo XIV told him that he’d “love to” throw a season opening first pitch in the future — “schedule permitting.”
German bishops face new division over ‘sex identity’ guidelines for schools November 24, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Authors of new German church guidelines for sexual identity classes at Catholic schools have declined to defend their text, after several bishops said it violated Catholic teaching and had been circulated without their consent.
Catholic agencies strategize how to serve homeless amid major US policy change November 24, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, News, Social Justice, World News The Trump administration has issued plans for a complete turnaround in homelessness policy, which involves a two-thirds reduction in current funding used to place homeless people in permanent dwellings.
