Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
The Supreme Court Jan. 12 reinstated a federal requirement that women who are seeking abortion-inducing drugs must do so in person, not by mail, as a federal judge had allowed last year due to the pandemic and the high court had let stand.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
After a flurry of court decisions, the Supreme Court reversed a pair of rulings from federal appeals courts that had put death-row inmate Lisa Montgomery’s execution on hold, and it denied two other last-minute requests to postpone the execution.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments asked priests to take special anti-COVID-19 precautions this year when distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, including sprinkling ashes on the top of people’s heads rather than using them to make a cross on people’s foreheads.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints
Carey Wallace’s new children’s book, “Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace, and Courage,” shows that holy men and women – whose miraculous deeds, charitable works and battles with armies, beasts and demons she chronicles with gusto – were also what Wallace calls “relentlessly human.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Praising those who help the sick and praying for those who are sick, Pope Francis called on Christians to practice what they preach, including by guaranteeing equal access to health care for all people.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Just as the political and criminal fallout has continued over the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by people seeking to halt the Electoral College certification of President-Elect Joe Biden’s win in the November election, the fallout has extended to job losses for those who have been identified as taking part in the siege.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
The Catholic Health Association issued an extensive list of priorities it would like President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to pursue.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News
The staff of the Maryland Catholic Conference will find it a little more difficult to work with legislators in Annapolis as the 2021 session of the General Assembly opens Jan. 13.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News, Social Justice
A new initiative on evangelization as part of the V Encuentro process will bring to the Archdiocese of Baltimore a highly successful model for incorporating Catholic social teaching into the Latin-American immigrant community.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Seeing the U.S. Capitol building being stormed by a rioting mob Jan. 6 brought a visceral reaction from Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican from Nebraska. Fortenberry, who is Catholic and often attends daily Mass at St. Peter’s Church on Capitol Hill, called the attack a “desecration.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Recognizing “the gifts of each baptized person” — women and men — Pope Francis ordered a change to canon law and liturgical norms so that women could be formally installed as lectors and acolytes.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: 2020 Election, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Pope Francis said he was “astonished” by the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, especially because the people of the United States are “so disciplined in democracy.”
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