Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News
Former President Jimmy Carter died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains, Georgia, his presidential library announced. At 100, Carter, who had been in hospice care since February 2023, was the longest-living U.S. president.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, Local News, News
Just five days after Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and inaugurated a yearlong Jubilee of Hope, Archbishop William E. Lori welcomed the Holy Year locally with a Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Dec. 29.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, Saints, World News
A Missouri native, Father Augustus Tolton is recognized as the first African American to be ordained a priest. A candidate for sainthood, he has the title of “Venerable.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
When British parliamentarians approved a law to allow physician-assisted suicide on Nov. 29, it followed a year of legislative inroads against Catholic social teaching across Europe.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis, who celebrated his 88th birthday Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair instead of walking and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies. Still, he had a 2024 full of important engagements, the longest trip of his papacy and major preparations for the Holy Year 2025, which he is set to open Dec. 24.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
God wants to save each and every person, and Christians are called to give witness to that fact by praying even for people who have harmed them, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools
The School Sisters of Notre Dame recently announced that they are making progress on the sale of the buildings that housed the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore, while also emphasizing their mission to continue to minister to the neighborhood surrounding the Aisquith Street property.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News
State laws of interest to Catholics spanned policy areas from abortion to IVF to immigration in 2024. An expected ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2025 could have an impact on state laws across the country banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature
There are feasts and events in the first month of the year that help us assimilate the miracle of Christmas Day and understand who this new child is, his divinity and the meaning of his birth.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News
With a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon barely holding, as both sides accuse each other of violations, hopes for even a fragile peace seem impossible for those living and aiding people in Gaza.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Uncategorized, World News
Looking back at the year, editors at OSV, in their longstanding tradition of shining a light on exemplary signs of faith, have named the following 10 individuals Catholics of the Year for 2024.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice
Loyola University Maryland announced that its Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship accepted 11 new ventures for the center’s 2024-25 Baltipreneurs Accelerator.
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