Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Missions, News, World News
A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation’s long-running armed gang violence and instability.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., is urging the people of his state to “affirm the humanity of all immigrants, regardless of legal status.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News
Peace and nuclear disarmament begin in the heart, said the head of the nation’s Catholic bishops.
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News
Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg is directly addressing Maryland’s growing healthcare crisis with the launch of a new physician assistant (PA) initiative. Recently granted provisional accreditation, it will welcome its inaugural class in January 2026.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News
The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor’s policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
Lebanon’s Catholic clergy celebrated a commemorative Mass and held a vigil in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, remembering those who perished five years earlier, on Aug. 4, 2020, in the catastrophic Beirut port explosion.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News
As emergency workers searched for survivors and tried to recuperate the bodies of the dead, Pope Leo XIV offered his prayers for people impacted by the latest shipwreck of a migrant boat off the coast of Yemen.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview
Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Jesuit Father Paul Gabor, vice director of the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., about the intersection between faith and science.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
With Pope Leo XIV prioritizing the issue of artificial intelligence, one expert warned OSV News that generative AI poses serious — and largely unaddressed — threats to child safety, by accelerating the creation and distribution of child sex abuse material, or CSAM.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry
After beginning the vigil with prayers, the pope engaged in a dialogue with several young people who asked him three questions.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry
The fullness of life depends on how much one joyfully welcomes and shares in life while also living with a constant yearning for those things that only come from God, Pope Leo XIV told young people.
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