Hours before Holy Week began, a U.S. major military medical center ended a long-standing contract to provide Catholic pastoral care to veterans and service members, violating their religious freedom, according to Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for Military Services.
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Mass shootings bring renewed calls for Catholics to prioritize common good over guns
Theologians and church leaders told OSV News that a public policy response to gun violence representing a Catholic perspective should start by prioritizing the common good.
Archbishop, governor call for prayer as Louisville mourns mass shooting ‘in the shadow of the cross’
Amid calls for prayer and praise for first responders, officials confirmed that four people were killed in an April 10 mass shooting, Easter Monday morning, in a downtown bank in Louisville, Ky.
Two Catholic Relief Services’ workers slain in Ethiopia amid Easter Sunday unrest
Two Catholic Relief Services staff members were shot and killed Easter Sunday in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, according to the U.S. Catholic Church’s international aid agency.
RADIO INTERVIEW: ‘Easter and Evangelization’
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Father Erik Arnold, pastor of St. John the Evangelist in Severna Park, about how his own faith was renewed and revived and how the message of Easter can radically reorient our lives toward Christ.
Share Easter joy with others, pope urges
The women disciples, who were the first to meet the risen Jesus, offer a lesson to all Christians: “We encounter Jesus by giving witness to him,” Pope Francis said.
Weddings trend outdoors
According to Dr. Diane Barr, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Raineys’ was one of 148 approved outdoor Catholic weddings in 2021.
Can Catholic speed dating ministries boost falling marriage vocations?
At a typical speed dating event, participants chat with each attendee of the opposite sex for a set length of time, then privately select which participants they are interested in seeing again.
Mission trip to Selma, Montgomery honors Catholics who marched with MLK for civil rights on ‘Bloody Sunday’
As the nation marked the 58th anniversary of a key civil rights demonstration, members of an Illinois parish traveled to two Alabama cities to honor that history, and to reinvigorate their own work for justice in society faithful to the Gospel.
Pope prays that Easter joy would break through gloom of sin, war, strife
On a bright spring morning, Pope Francis prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped.”
‘Good is stronger than evil,’ Archbishop Lori proclaims at Easter Mass
The Catholic Church exists to proclaim the Risen Lord, Archbishop William E. Lori told more than 1,300 people who filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland to capacity for the 11 a.m. Easter Mass April 9.
Prison ministries bring hope and light of Christ to those ‘doing time’
Prison minsters are giving back hope and faith to those men and women convicted of heinous crimes, who too often, are stigmatized and forgotten by society in general and even their own families.