Radio Interview: Catholic Men’s Spirituality February 3, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talked with two experts on Catholic Men’s Spirituality to get their take on how best to encourage and support men looking to develop and enhance their Catholic faith, so they can be better men, able to serve others, whether as husbands, fathers, priests or single lay men.
Presentation in the temple shows how God lives among us, pope says February 3, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The presentation of Jesus in the temple of Jerusalem shows that God’s closeness to humanity is not confined to a place of worship but is manifested in his living among people, Pope Francis said.
Nothing is worth sacrificing the life of a child, pope tells world leaders February 3, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News It is unacceptable that a child’s right to life and a dignified childhood should be sacrificed to “the idols” of power, profit, ideology and nationalistic self-interest, Pope Francis told a group of world experts and leaders.
St. John the Evangelist in Severna Park undergoing dramatic renovation February 3, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News After years of planning, St. John the Evangelist Church in Severna Park is undergoing extensive renovations that will give the house of worship a completely new look and an opportunity to highlight its patron saint.
For 125 years, society has had a mission to produce Catholic resources for the blind February 2, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, Feature, News, World News The Xavier Society for the Blind is celebrating 125 years of helping generations of Catholics, either blind or vision-impaired, participate in worship through braille texts, large-type books and audio books.
Sts. Louis and Zélie: St. Thérèse’s parents are models of love and devotion February 1, 2025By Lance Richey OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Saints, World News As the second married couple to be declared saints (along with Sts. Anne and Joachim, the parents of Mary), and the first to be canonized together, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin offer a model of the vocation to love and holiness that is at the heart of the sacrament of marriage.
Consecrated life is ‘a call to remember Jesus at every moment,’ says expert February 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Ahead of the World Day for Consecrated Life Feb. 2 — an observance that was instituted in 1997 by St. John Paul II and is attached to the feast of the Presentation of the Lord — OSV News spoke with Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life And Vocations.
Audited financials show claims the church profits from refugee work ‘just wrong’ January 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Claims that the U.S. bishops’ conference profits from its partnership with the government to assist refugee populations that qualify for federal assistance, and that the Catholic Church facilitates illegal immigration are “just wrong,” said William Canny, the U.S. bishops’ migration director.
Senators grill RFK Jr. on abortion, vaccine views in HHS confirmation hearings January 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News In a pair of January confirmation hearings, senators considered President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services.
Bishops across U.S. defend migrants, calling for immigration reform in ‘justice and mercy’ January 31, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The United States is a “nation with a proud legacy of welcome to immigrants” that also “needs secure, safe, sturdy borders,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York.
Child Nutrition Program at Archdiocese of Baltimore schools fuels mind and body January 31, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools Love them or hate them, school lunches need to be balanced, nutritious and desirable to students.
Father Riccardo to speak on core mysteries of faith in Ellicott City Feb. 11 January 30, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News Father John Riccardo and the Acts XXIX Team will be the featured speakers during a Feb. 11 “evening of renewal and worship” beginning at 7 p.m. at Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City.