Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Giving, Missions, News, World News
Ahead of World Mission Sunday — which the Catholic Church celebrates on the second to last Sunday in October, and which in 2024 falls on Oct. 20 — OSV News spoke with Kevin Foy, executive director of the United States Catholic Mission Association, on current perspectives and trends in mission work.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Giving, Missions, News, World News
Each year, churches around the world commemorate World Mission Sunday to highlight, encourage and promote the Catholic Church’s missions around the world.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Missions, News, World News
Decades of conflict ahead of independence in 2011, followed by civil war and famine, has taken its toll on South Sudan’s education and health systems.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Missions, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis flew 600 miles to a remote outpost of Papua New Guinea to spend an afternoon with a group of missionaries — many from Argentina — and with their people.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Missions, News, World News
A priest who recently spent 65 days on the road with the Blessed Sacrament during a national eucharistic pilgrimage has been tapped to head the papal missions in the U.S. — and he told OSV News he’s ready to help missionaries near and far “bring God to the ends of the earth” through the Eucharist.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Colleges, Missions, News, Vatican, World News
While expert scholarship and good stewardship mean the pontifical universities in Rome should be working together, Pope Francis said it is essential that the Pontifical Urbanian University does not lose its centuries-long focus on preparing missionaries from and to the varied cultures of the world.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Missions, News, Schools
Students from two Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore recently lived a faith experience in which they stepped out of their comfort zone, got to know other realities and appreciated joy in the midst of need in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Missions, News, Vatican, World News
Living out the missionary dimension of the faith never means trying to forcefully convert people to Catholicism, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Missions, News, Vatican, World News
Mission is tirelessly going out to all men and women to invite them with respect, joy and kindness, to encounter God and enter into communion with him, Pope Francis wrote in his message for World Mission Sunday.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Missions, News, Vatican, World News
Amid wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, this year’s World Mission Sunday is “even more important” than ever, said an executive from the U.S. offices of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Missions, News, World News
Missionaries pay their weekly visit to “Los Monckis,” a street gang of youngsters ranging in age from 7 to 26.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Missions, News, Radio Interview, Vocations
Four members of the Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ are stationed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. George Matysek talks with Sister Giovana of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, a 26-year-old religious sister from Brazil who serves as the local superior of the Baltimore apostolate, known as St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Mission.
