Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and associate pastor assignments June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Appointments, Feature, Local News, News Archbishop Lori announces appointments, including pastor and associate pastor assignments
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by tragic Air India plane crash June 12, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to victims’ families after an Air India flight headed to London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after takeoff in the western city of Ahmedabad.
Diversity is cause for strength, not division, pope tells Rome clergy June 12, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The cultural and pastoral diversity among clergy is not a burden but a gift that should enrich communion within the church rather than fragment it, Pope Leo XIV told the priests and deacons of the Diocese of Rome.
Oblate Sister Trinita Baeza, teacher and pastoral associate in Baltimore, dies at 98 June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass will be offered June 17 for Oblate Sister of Providence Trinita Baeza, who served her order for 81 years. The graduate of St. Frances Academy in Baltimore died June 8. She was 98.
Pope Leo to return to practice of ‘imposing’ pallium on new archbishops June 12, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Bishops, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV will revive a tradition begun by St. John Paul II in 1983 by personally placing a pallium around the shoulders of recently named archbishops.
As chaotic demonstrations erupt across U.S., Catholic experts counsel nonviolence June 12, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News It’s an important precept of Catholic citizenship: Ethical disagreement with public policy — and a desire to peacefully change it — is a worthy undertaking.
Mexican bishops express solidarity with migrants amid protests in U.S. cities June 12, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed solidarity with migrants “suffering persecution and violence” in the United States amid protests roiling Los Angeles.
Prayers continue for release of abducted Nigerian priest who recently served in Alaska June 11, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Faithful on two continents are praying for the safe return of a Nigerian priest who once served in Alaska, and has been kidnapped in his home country.
Kyiv’s historic cathedral damaged in Russian air strikes June 11, 2025By Barb Fraze OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Up to seven people were killed and up to 13 injured in a large-scale Russian drone attack on Kyiv and Odesa June 10, which also damaged the historic Holy Wisdom Cathedral, also known as St. Sophia Cathedral.
Vatican bank reports increased profits, charitable giving June 11, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank, reported increased profits in 2024 and gave a slightly larger dividend check to Pope Francis, who used the entire amount for charity.
UN secretary-general meets Pope Leo, top Vatican officials June 11, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV met with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres during a private audience at the Vatican June 11.
Call out to Jesus for healing; he will hear you, pope says June 11, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News When anyone cries out to God for healing or help, God always listens, Pope Leo XIV said.
