Pope Leo sends ‘warm greetings,’ apostolic blessing to March for Life participants January 22, 2026By Gina Christian Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News On the eve of the 2026 March for Life in Washington Jan. 23, Pope Leo XIV issued a message to participants, expressing his deep gratitude for their “eloquent public witness” and imparting his apostolic blessing.
Trump administration ends federally funded research with fetal tissue from elective abortions January 22, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News The Trump administration Jan. 22 announced a policy ending the use of fetal tissue from elective abortions in federally funded research.
Pastors encouraged to schedule extra Saturday services with snow, ice forecast for Maryland January 22, 2026By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments A message sent to priests by the archdiocesan communications department noted that it is up to pastors to decide whether to hold Sunday Masses, based on their best judgment and knowledge of anticipated snowfall and local road conditions.
Loyola University receives $12 million gift to establish Bloomfield Hall, create scholarship opportunities January 22, 2026By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Loyola University Maryland received its third multi-million-dollar gift in the past two months as it announced Jan. 21 that it received a $12 million commitment from Bill and Susan S. Bloomfield.
New partnership aims to support Church’s ministry to migrants, refugees January 22, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A group including Catholic organizations announced Jan. 21 a new partnership — The Catholic Immigrant Prophetic Action Project — that aims to assist the Catholic Church in the U.S. in organizing a robust response on behalf of migrants and refugees in the country, including those with legal status, who are affected by mass deportation efforts.
Steubenville students died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, say police January 22, 2026By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Franciscan University of Steubenville students Luke Reimer and Mary Mich were found shortly after noon Jan. 19, according to a statement released that same day by university president Father Dave Pivonka.
Like mother, like daughter at St. Mark School in Catonsville January 22, 2026By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: 2026 Catholic Schools Week, Feature, Local News, News, Schools It isn’t a secret that the student body at St. Mark School in Catonsville is a family affair, with classrooms filled with siblings and cousins, as well as faculty members’ children, nieces and nephews. Having four teams of mothers and daughters working at the school, however, is a bit unusual.
Trump rules out use of force to acquire Greenland, argues it should be given to U.S. January 21, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, World News President Donald Trump ruled out the use of force to acquire Greenland in a Jan. 21 speech to the World Economic Forum, but he said the U.S. would still seek ownership of the country.
To know God, we must welcome Jesus’ humanity, pope says January 21, 2026By Josephine Peterson Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV said that God is revealed through Jesus’ humanity, not solely through a “channel of transmission of intellectual truths.” It is through Jesus’ life, death and resurrection that one can come to know God.
NY state drops case to mandate religious groups cover abortion in employee health insurance January 20, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The state of New York has given up on trying to enforce an insurance regulation that would have forced Catholic and other religious organizations to pay for abortions.
In Baltimore, faithful walk for peace in Martin Luther King Jr.’s spirit January 20, 2026By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice Now in its 13th year, the annual walk is sponsored by St. Bernardine and Historic St. Peter Claver in memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Monsignor Edward Michael Miller, a former St. Bernardine pastor who died in December 2013 while preparing for Sunday Mass.
U.S. cardinals call for ‘genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation’ January 19, 2026By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Conflict in the Caribbean, Feature, News, World News Three U.S. cardinals have issued a joint statement urging the creation of a “genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation,” as the U.S. faces “the most profound and searing debate about the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world since the end of the Cold War.”
