Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News
In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 37 parishes are participating in Catholic Relief Service’s Operation Rice Bowl this year.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
On the House floor ahead of the vote — which came at 2 in the morning (EST) — Rep. Chris Smith, N.J., criticized Pelosi and the House Rules Committee for refusing to allow a vote on an amendment to add language to the bill “to ensure that taxpayers aren’t forced to subsidize abortion,” as provided by the long-standing Hyde Amendment.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
Father Lesnick, remembered by friends and parishioners for his compassion, a heart-felt concern for helping others grow in holiness and a quiet, unassuming ministry, died Feb. 26. He was 71 and had previously suffered from heart problems and prostate cancer. He had led the small Carroll County faith community since 2015.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis said he believes he will die in Rome, either in office or retired, and will not be buried in his native Argentina.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Feature, Year of St. Joseph
St. Joseph’s example and intercession should encourage each of us to do our part in building up the household of the Church by a spirit of prayer, by a willing spirit of service, and by our witness to Christ.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Video, World News
“This suffering on a daily basis takes an emotional toll, ” said Sandra Michocki, a chaplain at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. “In order for it not to swallow us,” she said, chaplains have to remember that God is always with them and “when we’re weary or we’re tired, we show up anyway; that’s all we can do.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News
A religious order has withdrawn its request to exhume its founder and transfer some of her remains from England to Philadelphia.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
“He ended up mentoring a lot of people,” Father Proffitt said. “He met people where they were. He was one of those deacons who got people past the idea that ‘we have to have a priest for a wedding or a baptism.’ Even in retirement, he continued to faithfully serve the community.”
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News
Parishes throughout the archdiocese will be encouraged to share pastoral resources for combatting pornography and to open up conversations about the dangers explicit materials pose to individuals, married couples and families.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
The new pathway to canonization puts the focus on the nature of the candidate’s death — that it was a free and willing offer of one’s Christian life and a heroic acceptance, out of love, of a certain and early death.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News
If the House of Representatives passes the Equality Act, its mandates will “discriminate against people of faith” by adversely affecting charities and their beneficiaries, conscience rights, women’s sports, “and sex-specific facilities,” said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News
During a Feb. 22 evening program on CNN, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered a prayer for those who have died from COVID-19 asking God to “grant enteral peace to all our sisters and brothers lost to this disease.”
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