Pope: Indifference, pride fuel world’s horrors; selfishness is suicide January 15, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Climate change and poverty are “the sick fruit” of pride, selfishness and a “blind war” humanity has declared against itself and the planet, Pope Francis said.
Pope looks back on his life, urges people to look to future with hope January 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News While calling himself an “old man” and saying he never expected to be pope this long, Pope Francis said he still has dreams for the future.
Fire captain makes way through ruins of incinerated church to find tabernacle intact January 14, 2025By Ann Rodgers OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News Four days after Corpus Christi Church was incinerated in the Palisades Fire, Capt. Bryan Nassour of the Los Angeles Fire Department picked his way over a 6-foot layer of rubble in the ashen bones of the sanctuary and recovered the tabernacle Jan. 11.
Catholics turn to Mary and saints amid Los Angeles wildfires January 14, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, Saints, World News Several Catholics who have fled the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have been praying for the intercession of Our Lady of Champion, who once saved a rural Wisconsin shrine from a devastating inferno.
When temperatures plunge, charities worry most about risks to homeless January 14, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News When outdoor conditions turn brutal, the difference between life and death can be the work of Catholic agencies and organizations serving an estimated 653,104 homeless Americans — a number that marked a record high in 2023, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported.
St. Agnes School, Catonsville, to close at end of academic year January 13, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Leaders of St. Agnes Catholic School in Catonsville announced Jan. 13 that the parish elementary school will close at the end of the 2024-25 academic year.
Pope appoints three U.S. experts, two of them women, as dicastery members January 13, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has named three U.S. experts — two women and an abbot — to be members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, a position once reserved for cardinals and bishops.
Radio Interview: American politics and two-party dominance January 13, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, U.S. Congress As the United States prepares to swear in a new president, Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty takes a look at the state of politics and elections.
Best gift a child can receive is faith, pope says at baptisms January 13, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments When children are baptized, their parents and the church are giving them the greatest gift ever: the gift of faith, Pope Francis said before baptizing 21 infants in the Sistine Chapel.
Cardinal Dolan will lead prayer at Trump’s second inauguration Jan. 20 January 13, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News After congressional lawmakers formally certified Jan. 6 President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, Trump is scheduled to return to the White House Jan. 20, four years after he left the Oval Office in the wake of a failed reelection bid.
Archbishop Broglio: MLK challenges all to ‘live out’ solidarity, human dignity January 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News The words of slain civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continue to challenge all “to live out the principle of solidarity and human dignity,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops.
Biden awards pope Presidential Medal of Freedom, nation’s highest civilian honor January 12, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation’s highest civilian honor, the White House said Jan. 11.
