Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, Respect Life, World News
Katie McMahon helps other women navigate questions like these as the co-founder of Shiloh IVF Ministry, a ministry that offers hope and healing those impacted by IVF. Her story is one of many: Estimates suggest more than 1 million frozen embryos exist in the United States alone.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News
The Trump administration has collided with a legal roadblock in its quest to limit the collective bargaining rights of almost 160,000 federal government employees belonging to the National Treasury Employees Union, or NTEU.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News
Former President Joe Biden mourned the passing of Pope Francis in an opinion piece for USA Today published April 28, calling for people to honor the late pontiff by “making his legacy a living legacy. A living faith. A faith of caring and compassion — and mercy.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, News, World News
Debates over a plan to reorganize the State Department should seek to improve American “efforts in the world at diplomacy and global citizenship,” and should prioritize human rights and humanitarian efforts, a leading foreign policy expert told OSV News.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, World News
A second Trump administration could present both challenges and opportunities for issue areas related to Catholic social teaching, bishops and policymakers said at the Napa Institute Citizens of Faith Conference on April 9.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Health Care, News, World News
In a system not impervious to market forces, the health outcomes Americans expect and what they actually receive may seem like two different things — and may also lead Catholics to wonder what’s morally required from networks forced to consider both care delivery and the bottom line.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, DOGE cuts
We as Catholics are asked to assess how Christian or moral an administration is not by its members or its rhetoric, but by its actions.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Mass deportations and asylum bans — part of the Trump administration’s rapid changes to U.S. immigration policy — destroy communities and human dignity, while constituting a “war on the poor,” said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, Immigration and Migration
What made America great was migration, and without it, we may never achieve greatness again.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, World News
The infinite and inalienable dignity inherent in every human being has practical consequences which include protecting everyone’s right to life from conception to a natural end and opposing the “technocratic” ideology of gender, said the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Participants in the event, “Understanding Migration from a Catholic Perspective” held at The Catholic University of America, examined current and historical narratives around U.S. immigration, seeking new ways to dialogue with those skeptical about the church’s work in this area, including some Trump administration officials.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Catholic Social Teaching, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
To help give clarity to the work Catholic Charities does in assisting migrants and refugees in the area, Today’s Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, spoke to Luz Ostrognai, director of Catholic Charities’ immigration services program. Ostrognai, a native of Colombia, has been practicing immigration law in Fort Wayne since 2003. The interview has been edited for clarity.
