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The story of the L.A. miracle that will make Pier Giorgio Frassati a saint

December 24, 2024
By Pablo Kay
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

This odd combination of circumstances would eventually prove providential, confounding medical authorities, changing the life of this anonymous seminarian, and forever tying him to another young man who had been dead for almost 100 years: Pier Giorgio Frassati, who in August will be declared a saint of the Catholic Church on account of the miracle of Juan Gutierrez’s ankle.

Biden commutes most federal death-row sentences to life in prison

December 23, 2024
By Kate Scanlon
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Several days after speaking with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he would commute most existing federal death sentences to life in prison.

Pope, suffering a cold, focuses on mothers and children before Christmas

December 23, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Leading the recitation of the Angelus prayer from inside the chapel of his residence because of a cold, Pope Francis nevertheless blessed the baby Jesus figurines children and adults will put in their Nativity scenes — and he brought one of his own as well.

The Door of Hope

December 23, 2024
By Archbishop William E. Lori
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Feature, Jubilee 2025

In opening the Holy Door, Pope Francis opens the door of hope for the Church and for the whole human family.

Father Demek retires after nearly 50 years as a priest

December 23, 2024
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations

Father Demek was inspired to become a priest by a seminarian from his home parish, Holy Cross in South Baltimore. “My father ran the altar servers when I was a kid back in the ’50s and so I was an altar server from second grade on.” He was an altar server at the seminarian’s first Mass after ordination.

The Christmas Eve creation of ‘Silent Night’

December 23, 2024
By Eddie O'Neill
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News

Father Josef Mohr (1792-1848) was the pastor of St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Obendorf, Austria. In 1816 he composed the six verse lyrics to “Silent Night,” which would become one of the most popular Christmas carols of all time.

Father William Au, pastor of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart, is set to retire

December 23, 2024
By Lisa Harlow
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations

Christmas Day will be especially poignant for Father William A. Au, pastor of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart. 

Southwest Baltimore faith-based partners to reprise candlelight prayer walk Dec. 30

December 23, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice

A coalition of public, private and faith-based partners plans to gather for a one-hour prayer vigil Dec. 30 at 5:30 p.m. to remember the lives lost to homicide this year and plead for an end to violence in Baltimore City. 

Unlock the way: Jubilee Year 2025 is chance for renewal of faith

December 23, 2024
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, Local News, News

Archbishop William E. Lori will mark the beginning of the Jubilee Year 2025 in the Archdiocese of Baltimore with a Mass at Cathedral of Mary of Our Queen in Homeland Dec. 29 at 11 a.m. 

Meet Luce, the 2025 Jubilee mascot

December 23, 2024
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, Local News, News

She has blue hair, muddy boots and wears a yellow raincoat. Meet Luce, the official Vatican mascot for the upcoming Jubilee Year.

Baltimore bishops’ Christmas schedule

December 23, 2024
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Bishops, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News

A list of where and when the bishops of the Archdiocese of Baltimore will celebrate Christmas Masses.

Papal preacher tells Curia to rediscover power of ‘littleness’ during Advent

December 20, 2024
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Advent, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

With Christmas just days away, Christians must embrace the human quality of “littleness” as a path toward living out God’s humility exhibited in Advent, the papal preacher said.

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