Radio Interview: Exploring ‘Story of a Soul’ September 30, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints, Vocations Beginning Oct. 1, Ascension Press offers a 28-day podcast designed to guide listeners through a reading of “Story of a Soul,” the much-loved spiritual autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. George Matysek talks about the project with one of the hosts of the new podcast, Carmelite Father Michael-Joseph Paris of St. Thérèse.
Excessive force, even after an attack, is immoral, pope says September 30, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News During a brief question-and-answer period with reporters on the papal plane returning to Rome from Belgium Sept. 29, the pope was asked specifically whether he thought Israel had gone too far in its most recent strike on Lebanon.
‘Peace is only possible if it is wanted,’ Cardinal Parolin tells U.N. assembly September 30, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Amid ongoing and potentially escalating conflict in both the Middle East and Ukraine, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin cautioned gathered delegates at the 79th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York Sept. 28 that, “peace is only possible if it is wanted.”
‘Catastrophic’ situation faces Lebanon, says U.N. rep September 30, 2024By Dale Gavlak OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs were struck multiple times Sept. 27 by Israeli missiles, shaking the Lebanese capital. The next day Iran-backed Hezbollah confirmed the military organization’s leader Hassan Nasrallah died in the strike.
More than 15 foreign priests could be forced to leave archdiocese after recent visa law changes September 30, 2024By Lisa Harlow Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News, Vocations Unless a recent change in U.S. visa law is reversed, more than 15 priests from other countries who now serve in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may be forced to go home – uprooting their ministries and leaving parishes, schools and Catholic institutions scrambling.
What does the church teach about abortion? September 30, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The Catholic Church teaches today what it has for two thousand years: Human life begins at conception and any deliberate participation in the killing of that defenseless life is a mortal sin.
Cardinal urges day of prayer, penance on anniversary of Oct. 7 attack, start of Israel-Hamas war September 30, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Oct. 7 will mark a year since the brutal Hamas attack on Israeli communities and the no less brutal Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip that immediately followed.
Archdiocese issues decrees regarding some merged parishes in Seek the City process September 29, 2024By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come The Archdiocese of Baltimore issued decrees Sept. 29 for some of the churches that will be affected by the Seek the City to Come planning process.
Incorruptibility of saints can teach many lessons to the faithful, says professor September 29, 2024By Jennifer Barton OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Exhumed in May 2023, four years after her death, Benedictine Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, foundress of the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, was discovered preserved from decay.
Prayer, thought and peaceful presence will be banned all over the UK September 29, 2024By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News The English and Welsh bishops have criticized a decision by the British government to put “buffer zones” around all abortion clinics, which could see Christians arrested for offering private prayers.
Novena for mental health seeks healing, awareness, action on issue September 28, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops invites the faithful to join in a novena for mental health as part of the second year of the USCCB’s ongoing National Catholic Mental Health Campaign.
Helene downgraded but not before causing massive flooding, major damage, several deaths September 27, 2024By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News As Florida prepared for the massive Hurricane Helene to make landfall along the state’s Gulf Coast the evening of Sept. 26, Bishop William A. Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee livestreamed his personal reflection and prayer.
