Love, not power saves the world, papal preacher says at service with Vance April 18, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News Jesus, who redeemed humanity by giving up his life on the cross, shows that it is not strength that saves the world, but the “weakness” of boundless love, the papal preacher told thousands of people gathered for the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, including U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
Campus Catholic ministry shelters students amid mass shooting at Florida State University April 18, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Gun Violence, News, World News The Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee is calling for prayers following an April 17 mass shooting at Florida State University’s main campus in Tallahassee, while a campus Catholic ministry is sheltering students and staff amid the lockdown.
For deacon headed to Boston Marathon, running is a healing, spiritual encounter April 18, 2025By Nikki Rajala OSV News Filed Under: deacons, News, Sports, World News When Deacon Vincent Charles is on a training run and meets a car, instead of waving a greeting, he now offers them the Sign of the Cross.
Rebuilt Brick Chapel in St. Mary’s City with its new interior features highlights Maryland as a birthplace of religious freedom April 18, 2025By Mark Zimmermann Catholic Standard Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Religious Freedom A major milestone for the Brick Chapel – a landmark of faith that symbolizes Maryland’s status as a birthplace of religious freedom in the United States – unfolded that day, as the chapel’s interior features were unveiled, culminating more than four decades of historical research, archaeological excavation and painstaking reconstruction work.
The Little Flower and the Great Doctor: Àvila, Lisieux to hold events commemorating Carmelite saints April 18, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Catholics in France and Spain will also have reason to stay in their countries as their respective churches prepare to commemorate two of the Catholic Church’s most popular saints: Sts. Thérèse of Lisieux and Teresa of Ávila.
Bishop welcomes the UK Supreme Court’s ruling: Women are defined solely by biological sex April 17, 2025By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: News, World News A British Catholic bishop has welcomed a ruling by the U.K. Supreme Court that a woman is defined solely by biological sex.
Conventual Franciscan Francis Lombardo, former teacher at Curley, dies at 90 April 17, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Uncategorized A funeral Mass will be offered April 24 in Hamburg, N.Y., for Conventual Franciscan Father Francis (Frank) J. Lombardo, who taught English for five years at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore. Father Lombardo, a priest of the Our Lady of the Angels Province, died April 8. He was 90.
‘Why them and not me,’ pope asks after Holy Thursday visit to prison April 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, Feature, News, Vatican, World News While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a detention facility, arriving at Rome’s Regina Coeli jail at about 3 p.m. April 17.
Gaza is in a state of ‘extreme poverty,’ but Christians still share what they have with others April 17, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News More than 1,500 people have been killed in Israeli bombardment of the enclave since it renewed the Israel-Hamas war on March 18, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said.
New miracle confirmed from Lourdes sanctuary April 17, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News In a joyful moment after the rosary on St. Bernadette Soubirous’ feast day April 16 at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, the shrine’s rector, Father Michel Daubanes, announced that a 72nd miracle at the famed pilgrimage site has been recognized.
Be ‘heralds of hope,’ pope asks priests in homily for chrism Mass April 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically preach the good news of hope, Pope Francis wrote in the homily he prepared for the Holy Thursday chrism Mass.
Novena to St. Gianna to unite faithful in prayer for pregnant, parenting moms in need April 17, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News Thousands of Catholics across the country will unite in prayer for pregnant and parenting moms in need during an April 19-27 novena inspired by St. Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian doctor, wife and mother who sacrificed her own life for the life of her child.
