Angelicum rector: Pope’s election ‘greatest mercy God has ever shown on Catholic Church in America’ May 13, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Vatican, World News While no one from then-Father Prevost’s time at the Angelicum is still teaching there, Father White is proud that Leo XIV is the second contemporary pope to be an Angelicum graduate in recent decades.
Planned Parenthood annual report shows abortions, public funding up after Dobbs May 13, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows an increase in abortions from the previous year’s report, while also showing a $100 million increase in government funding amid an overall decrease in cancer screenings and prevention services.
Who is St. Augustine, the father of Pope Leo XIV’s order? May 13, 2025By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” St. Augustine’s famous words addressed to God introduce his account of how a headstrong, self-indulgent young man became one of the most important Christian thinkers of all time and a saint — and the father of the Augustinian order, to which Pope Leo XIV belongs.
Bankruptcy court judge gives victim-survivors temporary window to file civil suits May 12, 2025By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News The judge overseeing the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization case issued an order May 2 that will allow those who filed claims in the case to also file lawsuits against the archdiocese and affiliated entities in order to preserve their rights under an amendment this year to the Maryland Child Victims Act.
New pope to celebrate three public Masses in May May 12, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV’s schedule of public liturgies in May includes events revolving around the inauguration of his ministry, visits to Rome’s major basilicas and a celebration of priestly ordinations.
Ukrainian president speaks with Pope Leo, invites him to Ukraine May 12, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Pope Leo XIV for his support of a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, and he invited the newly-elected pontiff to visit the war-torn nation.
Besides Leo XIII, 12 other popes have shared that name with new pontiff; 5 are saints May 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Aside from Leo XIII, himself not canonized, there have been 12 others who share a name with the new pope, and five of those predecessors attained the heights of sanctity and have been proclaimed saints.
Radio Interview: Meet the Mount St. Mary’s graduate who served as a lector at papal funeral May 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Remembering Pope Francis One of the voices heard during the funeral of Pope Francis was Kielce Gussie, a Vatican journalist who had the honor of proclaiming the first reading at the Mass.
10 things to know about Pope Leo XIV May 12, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As the Catholic Church welcomes its first American pope, here are 10 things to know about Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost.
At St. Mary’s School in Hagerstown, vision takes shape to save a school May 12, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Western Vicariate St. Mary, a 2017 National Blue Ribbon School, has also set high academic goals alongside its faith-centered mission.
‘Doctrinal clarity, strong governance, thoughtful appointments’ among Weigel’s hopes for new papacy May 12, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News OSV News asked George Weigel — the American biographer of the pope from Poland, St. John Paul II — about what the first few days of papacy tell us about Pope Leo XIV, how as an American missionary he can influence the world and about his own hopes for the papacy.
Pope Leo prays for vocations, for peace and for mothers on Mother’s Day May 11, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday recitation of the “Regina Coeli” prayer and urged all Catholics to pray for vocations, especially to the priesthood and religious life.
