Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News
The famed Sacré-Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a “stone host placed on the open wound of the city,” celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV asked Madagascar’s bishops to embrace the care of creation as a central part of their prophetic ministry, calling on them to safeguard the unique ecological beauty and fragility of their homeland.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News
In the presence of the mother of the newly beatified martyr, Pope Leo XIV prayed that Blessed Floribert Bwana Chui would intercede to finally bring peace to Congo.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Scientific discovery and knowledge are meant to benefit all of humanity, Pope Leo XIV told young astronomers.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV decried escalating violence around the world, spotlighting attacks against Christian communities and calling for peace and justice in conflict-ridden areas.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Books, CR Radio, Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview
Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with two authors whose books feature literal and spiritual trailblazers.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Catholic Charities, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities USA are among more than 200 non-governmental organizations named in a congressional probe for aiding immigrants its leaders call “inadmissible aliens” during former President Joe Biden’s administration.
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OSV News
Filed Under: deacons, Feature, News, Vocations, World News
The nation’s Catholic permanent deacons were estimated to number more than 20,000 in 2024 — but “as is the case with priests in the United States, there are not enough new permanent deacons being ordained to make up for the numbers who are retiring from active ministry and dying each year,” according to a new report.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
In a little over a month since his election to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV has appeared to embrace his role as a head of state to promote Catholic principles about peacebuilding, an analyst told OSV News. His actions as a head of state could also impact U.S. diplomacy.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, New Priests 2025, News, Vocations
Faith has been a vibrant part of Deacon Ilanga’s 46 years of life. It all began in his childhood with his mother bringing him and his eight siblings – five sisters and three brothers – to daily and Sunday Masses as a family. With the church being a five-minute walk from home, Deacon Ilanga was also involved in ministries such as singing in the choir and being an altar server.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News
As conflict in the Middle East escalated with Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran and retaliatory drone attacks on Israel, Pope Leo XIV appealed for restraint and renewed the church’s calls for nuclear disarmament and peaceful dialogue.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News
Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman, who once taught Sunday school at St. Timothy in Blaine, Minn., and was a speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home early June 14 in what Gov. Tim Walz said “appears to be a politically motivated assassination.”
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