Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, World News
A prominent Catholic humanitarian agency in the Middle East has expressed concern over sudden cuts to U.S. financial assistance affecting its ministries aiding the displaced, refugees and the impoverished.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, Vatican, World News
Brian Burch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, defended the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid at a Senate hearing April 8 on his nomination.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., has advocated for U.S. foreign aid to continue on a new path shaped by Catholic principles.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News
Stock markets around the world and in the U.S. dropped in the days after President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping “reciprocal tariff” policy starting with a 10 percent baseline tariff on almost every country in the world.
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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: DOGE cuts, News, World News
A special Mass for federal workers and civil servants celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington offered a message of solidarity and hope amid ongoing employment uncertainties.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Schools, World News
Several diocesan overseers of federally funded school meal programs told OSV News that Trump administration changes stand to leave some children’s plates empty, while potentially making surviving versions of the programs too burdensome to operate.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News
Baltimore-based CRS said the “termination of dozens of CRS’ life-saving projects,” including 11 operating under humanitarian waivers, “will permanently cut off critical aid to more than 20 million people worldwide.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Journalism, News, War in Ukraine, World News
Journalists dismissed by the Trump administration’s gutting of the federally funded Voice of America broadcaster “will not be silenced,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, DOGE cuts, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Following a setback, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is continuing its legal fight against the Trump administration’s halt in federal funding for refugee resettlement services.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, Giving, News, World News
Amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, an annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad has taken on “a very urgent significance,” said Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg of Reno, Nevada, head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ national collections efforts.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Disaster Relief, DOGE cuts, News, World News
Women religious from Africa and a representative of Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., grappled with the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid during a March 13 panel hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
