Experts: Church must better educate Catholics about IVF moral objections, alternatives November 17, 2024By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News In vitro fertilization is a topic that received significant national attention during the past election season as candidates made it a policy issue. A costly, but widely accepted option in society for conceiving children through artificial means, IVF also involves significant moral and ethical concerns.
Renovations in full swing at Carmelite Monastery of Baltimore November 16, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations At the Carmelite Monastery of Baltimore, a place meant for silence and solitude, the sounds of pounding hammers and sawing have become a typical – and welcomed – sound this year as the community of religious sisters looks to the future.
Notre Dame de Paris returns to her cathedral with thousands of Parisians walking her home November 16, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Miraculously missed by burning beams falling from the roof on April 15, 2019, and waiting for five years to make it back to Notre Dame Cathedral, the 14th-century statue of the Virgin of Paris made it back home Nov. 15, accompanied by thousands of Parisians praying, singing and lighting candles as they walked their Virgin to Paris’ most iconic church, restored after the fire.
Red Wednesday to put Christian persecution in the spotlight November 16, 2024By Michael Kelly OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News This coming Nov. 20 will mark “Red Wednesday,” a commemoration held annually by Aid to the Church in Need to highlight the fact that today one in seven Christians face extreme hostility, violence and repression because of their faith in Christ. In some countries, the observance is being extended throughout the week and is called a “Red Week.”
Sister Dolores “Dolly” Glick, M.H.S.H., dies at 92 November 15, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart Sister Dolores “Dolly” Glick will be offered at the Stella Maris Chapel in Timonium Nov. 22 at 11 a.m.
Pursuing common good in economics is part of being pro-life, pope says November 15, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News Defending the dignity and sacredness of every human life requires working to create economic and social systems that promote the common good of all, Pope Francis said.
Seminarian makes ‘a brave shave’ to raise funds for church playground November 15, 2024By Samantha Smith Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations, Western Vicariate Jeremy Belk started the day Nov. 10 with a full head of hair and a beard. By the end of the day, his brother had shorn him of it all.
Destruction grows daily as Israel-Hamas war enters second year, say Catholic relief agency leaders November 15, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News As the Israel-Hamas war enters its second year, expanding to a wider region of the Middle East, two Catholic agency leaders based in Jerusalem and Beirut are warning the conflict is decimating the populations they serve.
How will JD Vance’s newly found Catholic faith affect his vice presidential role? November 15, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News A great many things will matter when JD Vance enters the West Wing of the White House to take office after he is sworn in Jan. 20. How might his Catholicism impact what he brings to a new Trump administration and the business of running America?
U.S. bishops: ‘We stand in firm solidarity’ with immigrants November 15, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News With immigration an ongoing issue after the 2024 U.S. general election, three U.S. Catholic bishops issued a Nov. 14 statement of pastoral concern pledging support for immigrants.
Meatless Fridays back? U.S. bishops discuss ways to celebrate 10 years of ‘Laudato Si” November 14, 2024By Gretchen R. Crowe OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Environment, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News Methods of further incorporating “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on care of creation, into the life of the church at the local and national level was a point of discussion for the U.S. bishops in Baltimore during their fall general assembly Nov. 13, and included the suggestion of returning to the church’s longtime practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.
Bishops hear update on plans to implement ministry of lay catechist set forth by pope November 14, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, updated his fellow bishops Nov. 13 in Baltimore on his committee’s plans to implement the ministry of the lay catechist, a ministry set forward by Pope Francis in his May 2021 apostolic letter “Antiquum Ministerium.”
