Italian report: Pope encourages gay man who wants to enter seminary June 5, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis reportedly told a young gay man to “keep going” with his vocational search after he told the pope he felt called to the priesthood but was turned away by an Italian seminary because he told them he was gay.
Pope preparing document on Sacred Heart of Jesus to renew church, world June 5, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis announced that he is preparing a document on the Sacred Heart of Jesus to “illuminate the path of ecclesial renewal, but also to say something significant to a world that seems to have lost its heart.”
Biden signs executive order temporarily shutting down asylum requests June 5, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News President Joe Biden June 4 signed an executive order aimed at reducing unauthorized border crossings by asylum-seekers. The move was expected and comes as Biden faces increasing political pressure on the issue of migration in the midst of his reelection bid.
Lawmakers spar over women’s health care in Senate hearing on state abortion laws June 5, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News The Senate June 4 held a hearing on the impact of post-Dobbs abortion restrictions, with lawmakers alternately criticizing or defending them with respect to women’s health care concerns.
Virginia institute launches Pronatalism initiative to address global birth dearth June 5, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News The Pronatalism Initiative will pioneer new research as it seeks to formulate policy recommendations “to counteract global fertility decline.”
Loyola University Maryland closing its Timonium Graduate Center June 4, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Loyola University Maryland is closing its Timonium Graduate Center at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year and moving all academic programs and administrative offices to other locations, the Baltimore university announced June 3.
Bishops congratulate Mexico’s new president; country elects first female to top office June 4, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Mexico’s bishops congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum, who overwhelmingly won Mexico’s presidential election to become the country’s first female president — a historic accomplishment overshadowed by the killing of candidates and questions over the future of the country’s democratic institutions.
Seminarians discern a closer walk with Jesus traveling the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 3, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vocations, World News Having seminarians join the five or six other young adult “perpetual pilgrims” and their priest and religious brother chaplains on each route provides the young men “a unique formational opportunity” that allows them “to also be a witness to other young men who may be discerning a vocation to the priesthood,” said Joel Stepanek, vice president of programming and administration for National Eucharistic Congress Inc.
Corpus Christi procession is not sign of pride but invitation, pope says June 3, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vatican, World News When Catholics carry the Eucharist through the streets, “we are not doing this to show off or to flaunt our faith” but to invite others to share in the life that Jesus gives by making himself a gift, Pope Francis said.
Dr. Robert Redfield warns against ‘scientific arrogance,’ calls for increased biosecurity June 3, 2024By Lisa Harlow Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News The coronavirus pandemic was just a dress rehearsal. Something bigger is coming, according to the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “It’s not a question of if; it’s a question of when,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, a parishioner of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland who led the CDC from 2018 to 2021 and now is a disease and internal medicine physician at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.
D-Day’s 80th anniversary honors the past, aims to teach future generations, French bishop says June 1, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The Catholic Church in France prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Normandy landings June 6, a date known as D-Day that marked the beginning of the liberation of France and Europe from Nazi Germany’s occupation during World War II.
Safe Streets opens new Cherry Hill office as leaders tout success against violence May 31, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Gun Violence, Local News, News, Social Justice William McCarthy Jr. insists it’s not a matter of opinion that a public health program known as “Safe Streets” helps reduce violence in Baltimore City. The longtime executive director of Catholic Charities of Baltimore called it a statistical fact.
