Vatican reports progress in flagging suspicious financial activity April 9, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Vatican bank and other Vatican offices with financial dealings are getting more adept at identifying and stopping suspicious financial activity, according to the Vatican’s Supervisory and Financial Information Authority.
Trump’s Vatican ambassador pick defends foreign aid cuts at confirmation hearing April 9, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, Vatican, World News Brian Burch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, defended the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid at a Senate hearing April 8 on his nomination.
Catholic school teacher rescues father and son in Inner Harbor April 9, 2025By Anna Donofrio Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools T. J. O’Leary, a science teacher at St. Agnes, didn’t think twice before he jumped into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to save a foundering father and son April 3.
Former Baltimore Raven tells Catholic men to ‘get in the game’ April 9, 2025By Matthew Liptak Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Men, News Matt Birk, a former Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl champion and now founder of a national Catholic men’s group movement, was one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Catholic Men’s Fellowship Conference, which also featured Mark Hartfiel, program director of Paradisus Dei’s “That Man is You” nationwide men’s group.
CRS advocates ‘Catholic, pro-life vision’ for foreign aid amid USAID shutdown April 9, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., has advocated for U.S. foreign aid to continue on a new path shaped by Catholic principles.
Iraqi Catholic archbishop calls terrorism lawsuit ‘false and defamatory’ April 9, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News A Chaldean Catholic archbishop denies claims by an Iraqi-American businesswoman that he “aided and abetted” acts of “international terrorism,” including her alleged kidnapping and torture, amid political infighting and turmoil in Iraq in 2014.
Riches can be burdens, preventing people from following Jesus, pope says April 9, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Jesus loves people as they are, not based on their merit or righteousness, said the text for Pope Francis’ weekly general audience.
Pope Francis calls his envoy to Ukraine; ‘The papal blessing is protecting us, we feel it,’ says local bishop April 9, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News As Ukraine experienced a deadly weekend with a barrage of attacks from Russia on Kryvyi Rih and Kyiv, the capital, the papal almoner handed a gift from Pope Francis — four ambulances — to local authorities in Zaporizhzhia.
Notre Dame’s ACE Teaching fellows to serve in Baltimore Catholic schools through new partnership April 9, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Schools The Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., have announced a new partnership that will bring four ACE Teaching Fellows to Catholic schools across Baltimore.
Diocese of Providence welcomes Bishop Lewandowski April 8, 2025By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Bishop Lewandowski, Bishops, Feature, Local News, News A few hours after it was announced in Rome and Washington April 8 that Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, C.Ss.R., would be the new bishop of the Diocese of Providence, R.I., he greeted the people of his new flock in an emotional news conference from the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.
Art center continues to promote Rupnik art as alleged survivors hail mosaic coverages April 8, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News As dioceses and shrines are questioning how best to limit the use of artwork created by Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik, who is accused of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse over three decades, the art center he founded continued to promote his latest mosaics at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil.
Hundreds gather in Emmitsburg for first-ever Deaf Eucharistic Congress April 8, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Deaf Ministry, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News Deaf Catholics from across the country stood side by side, hands raised in prayer, signing in unison – worshiping in their own language at the first-ever Deaf Eucharistic Congress.
