Walter Reed decision to cancel Catholic pastoral contract ahead of Holy Week ‘incomprehensible,’ says US military archbishop April 11, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News 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.
Mass shootings bring renewed calls for Catholics to prioritize common good over guns April 11, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, U.S. Congress, World News 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’ April 11, 2023By Marnie McAllister OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News 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 April 11, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News 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’ April 11, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Easter, Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview 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 April 11, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News 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 April 11, 2023By Lisa Harlow Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Worship & Sacraments According to Dr. Diane Barr, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Raineys’ was one of 148 approved outdoor Catholic weddings in 2021.
Mission trip to Selma, Montgomery honors Catholics who marched with MLK for civil rights on ‘Bloody Sunday’ April 10, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News 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.
Can Catholic speed dating ministries boost falling marriage vocations? April 10, 2023By Rachel Hoover OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News 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.
Pope prays that Easter joy would break through gloom of sin, war, strife April 9, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News 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 April 9, 2023By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: 2023 Attorney General's Report, Easter, Feature, Local News, News 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’ April 9, 2023By Robert Alan Glover OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News 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.
