Pew: Christianity up in sub-Saharan Africa, down worldwide due to those leaving the faith June 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world’s Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe’s “widespread Christian disaffiliation” — with Christians declining as a share of the world’s population due to adherents leaving the faith, according to new research by the Pew Research Center.
Pope’s brother says even as a baby, future pontiff had a spiritual ‘air’ about him June 13, 2025By Simone Orendain Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News In an interview with OSV News, Louis Prevost said that it was more than just Robert being “the baby of the family. … There was an air about him. I mean the spirit coming out of his physical body as he grew older.”
Sister Joan Minella, former principal and pastoral life director, dies June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Joan Marie Minella was offered May 30 at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Joan died May 9, just a few days shy of turning 90.
Archbishop Lori offers encouragement to charitable agencies affected by federal cuts June 12, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, St. Vincent de Paul Baltimore At a time when federal funding cuts are straining the services of charitable organizations across the region, Archbishop William E. Lori offered a message of hope and solidarity during a special “Mass for the Preservation of Peace and Justice” celebrated June 11 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
Incoming superior general of Oblate Sisters of Providence outlines priorities June 12, 2025By Carole Norris Greene Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations When Sister Marcia Hall was elected in April as the next superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence, the nation’s oldest functioning Black Catholic religious order, she would have to wait for her new administration to meet to prioritize goals for their four-year tenure.
Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and associate pastor assignments June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Appointments, Feature, Local News, News Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and associate pastor assignments
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by tragic Air India plane crash June 12, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to victims’ families after an Air India flight headed to London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after takeoff in the western city of Ahmedabad.
Diversity is cause for strength, not division, pope tells Rome clergy June 12, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The cultural and pastoral diversity among clergy is not a burden but a gift that should enrich communion within the church rather than fragment it, Pope Leo XIV told the priests and deacons of the Diocese of Rome.
Oblate Sister Trinita Baeza, teacher and pastoral associate in Baltimore, dies at 98 June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass will be offered June 17 for Oblate Sister of Providence Trinita Baeza, who served her order for 81 years. The graduate of St. Frances Academy in Baltimore died June 8. She was 98.
As chaotic demonstrations erupt across U.S., Catholic experts counsel nonviolence June 12, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News It’s an important precept of Catholic citizenship: Ethical disagreement with public policy — and a desire to peacefully change it — is a worthy undertaking.
Kyiv’s historic cathedral damaged in Russian air strikes June 11, 2025By Barb Fraze OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Up to seven people were killed and up to 13 injured in a large-scale Russian drone attack on Kyiv and Odesa June 10, which also damaged the historic Holy Wisdom Cathedral, also known as St. Sophia Cathedral.
Call out to Jesus for healing; he will hear you, pope says June 11, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News When anyone cries out to God for healing or help, God always listens, Pope Leo XIV said.
