Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Easter, Giving, News, World News
With Easter celebrations hours away, the U.S. bishops’ humanitarian agency is urging the faithful to “stand in solidarity with our global family” by turning in their Lenten Rice Bowl contributions.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Giving, News, World News
Donations to the annual Catholic Home Missions Appeal will help support more than 70 “home mission dioceses” in the U.S., as well as its current and former territories, the U.S. bishops announced.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Giving, News, World News
While pilgrimages to the Holy Land have been few and far between in the past 18 months, hundreds of Franciscan friars celebrate Mass at the sites associated with the life of Jesus each day and continue to support the local Christian populations.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Giving, News, World News
While anchored in the hope that comes from Jesus’ resurrection, Catholics should not forget the “tears, despair and destruction everywhere” they have seen in images from the Middle East, a top Vatican official said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, Giving, News, World News
Amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, an annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad has taken on “a very urgent significance,” said Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg of Reno, Nevada, head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ national collections efforts.
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Filed Under: Feature, Giving, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis congratulated Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services on the 50th anniversary of CRS Rice Bowl, the Catholic relief agency’s annual Lenten program dedicated to global hunger and poverty alleviation efforts.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Lent, News, World News
CRS, the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community, is marking the 50th anniversary of its Rice Bowl program, which has raised more than $350 million to support domestic and overseas poverty relief efforts.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Giving, Lent, News, World News
At the start of Catholic Relief Services’ 2025 Rice Bowl initiative — an annual Lenten program blending almsgiving and prayer to provide aid to overseas and domestic aid — OSV News spoke with Rice Bowl founder Monsignor Robert Coll, a retired priest of the Diocese of Allentown, Pa., about the program as it marks its 50th year.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Local News, News, Schools
Mercy High School, a North Baltimore all-girls Catholic secondary school, launched Dec. 12 a $10 million capital campaign, “The Spirit of Mercy: Advancing the Legacy of the Sisters of Mercy.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Giving, News, Vocations, World News
The faithful will have an opportunity the weekend of Dec. 7-8 to support the more than 20,000 elderly religious sisters, brothers and religious order priests who have devoted their lives to service in the Catholic Church through an annual collection benefiting retired religious across the United States.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Giving, News, Social Justice, World News
Mary’s Meals serves meals to 2,429,182 children every school day across 17 countries.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Giving, News, Social Justice, World News
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development annual collection envelope — for those church parishioners who don’t use the electronic alternative, #iGiveCatholicTogether — announces that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ domestic anti-poverty program is “working on the margins.”
