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Hopkins medical sculptor transforms lives, restores hope with facial prostheses

December 5, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News

He’s worked with patients whose ears were bitten off in dog attacks. He’s seen people whose eyes or ears were lost in accidents or whose flesh was ravaged by aggressive cancers. And he’s helped others born without body parts or who suffered unimaginable gunshot wounds.

Handmade gifts make Christmas presents more meaningful

December 5, 2024
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News

Christmas gifts made by hand offer many benefits, artists and crafters say, no matter if they are baked, painted, sewed or melted. They are one-of-a-kind and mean a lot to both the givers and the receivers.

Homilies must be short, about Jesus, inspired by the Spirit, pope says

December 4, 2024
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Homilies must be prepared with the help of the Holy Spirit, be shorter than 10 minutes and put the spotlight on the Lord, not oneself, Pope Francis said.

Pope, cardinal advisers discuss collegiality, role of women

December 4, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News

During two days of meetings, Pope Francis and his closest cardinal advisers discussed the relationship between local churches and other institutional church assemblies, a main topic of discussion to come out of the Synod of Bishops on synodality.

Trump to attend Notre Dame Cathedral’s reopening ceremonies

December 4, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

President-elect Donald Trump will attend the upcoming reopening ceremony for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, he said Dec. 2. The trip will mark his first foreign trip since his election to a second term.

Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas venerated by faithful in Washington during relic’s 3-week U.S. tour

December 4, 2024
By Paul Macrae
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

To a packed St. Dominic Church Nov. 29, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington delivered a homily focused on the Catholic tradition of honoring the dead and on the legacy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Archbishop Sheen’s canonization ‘inevitable’ amid growing devotion, says foundation head

December 4, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

Despite a few high-profile delays in recent years, the canonization of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen — the popular, scholarly archbishop and 20th-century pioneer of Catholic broadcasting — is “inevitable,” said the head of the foundation supporting his cause.

U.S. basilicas, churches to ring bells at the moment Notre Dame Cathedral reopens

December 3, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

As Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris officially reopens Dec. 7-8, bells will ring in churches an ocean away in the United States to celebrate the historic moment.

Blue Peak Center helps children with autism thrive

December 3, 2024
By Susan McInerney
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News

At the Blue Peak Center for Applied Behavior Analysis, the aim is more than just working to modify the behavior of young children with autism. It is also to help them and their families thrive and learn to cope with the world around them.

Preparations begin for opening Holy Doors at Vatican, Rome basilicas

December 3, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News

Hours after the last visitors and pilgrims left St. Peter’s Basilica for the day, a chisel clanged and dust flew as a group of prelates chanted their prayers before a simple wall marked with a cross.

Catholic agency ‘will follow’ Lebanon’s displaced ‘wherever they settle’ after ceasefire

December 3, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News

The head of a Catholic humanitarian agency in Lebanon told OSV News the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to be intact, as he and his team vow to assist those displaced by the conflict “wherever they settle.”

Notre Dame shines bright as French president visits days before the ‘grande réouverture’

December 2, 2024
By Caroline de Sury
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

The world was left stunned when the first images of the rebuilt Notre Dame were published and spread with viral speed as President Emmanuel Macron walked through the bright, unrecognizably beautiful Parisian cathedral on Nov. 29, a week ahead of the Dec. 7-8 official reopening.

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