Death penalty fuels ‘poison’ of revenge in society, pope says August 19, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News Capital punishment promotes a deadly attitude of revenge and denies the possibility of change in the lives of incarcerated people, Pope Francis said.
Catholic medical group welcomes plastic surgeons’ questions about gender surgeries for teens August 19, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News A group of Catholic medical professionals is hailing recent remarks by U.S. plastic surgeons questioning surgical interventions for teens experiencing gender dysphoria.
Deacon Lehr, who helped get new church built in Hickory, dies at 79 August 16, 2024By Kurt Jensen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Deacon Robert “Bob” Lehr, the first member of St. Ignatius parish in Hickory to become a permanent deacon and a key figure in the building of a new church in 2001, died Aug. 11 following a fall at his home in Forest Hill. He was 79.
Vocations flourish among Indigenous women in Guatemala’s remote highlands August 16, 2024By Rhina Guidos OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News The Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist didn’t just survive the violence of the Lake Atitlán region back then, but they flourished during the war’s 36 years and now have missions in San Pedro Ayampuc; Tamahu; Cobán; Santiago Atitlán in Sololá; Tecpán in Chimaltenango; Joyaba and Santa Cruz in El Quiché; and San Andrés Semetabaj.
Notre Dame of Maryland University set to break enrollment record for second straight year August 15, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Notre Dame of Maryland University is set to welcome one of its top three largest classes of new undergraduates for a second year in a row in the 2024-25 academic year, according to an Aug. 14 news release.
Father Kolson, former pastor of Edgewood and Bradshaw parishes, dies at 76 August 15, 2024By Kurt Jensen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Father Lawrence Florian “Larry” Kolson, a Baltimore native who served six parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and recently marked his 50th year in the priesthood, died Aug. 13 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium following a long illness. He was 76.
On Assumption, pope entrusts war-torn countries to Mary’s care August 15, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Mary is not a “motionless wax statue,” but a disciple who wants to share the good news of Jesus with everyone and reaches out to help and comfort them, Pope Francis said.
In university summer program, students do hands-on research, learn faith and science not at odds August 15, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News, Young Adult Ministry Students — many of whom are exploring careers in science — conduct hands-on, faculty-mentored research, design and perform experiments, analyze and interpret data, and present their results.
St. Maximilian Kolbe: ‘Patron of our difficult century’ August 14, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News In his homily during St. Maximilian Kolbe’s canonization Mass Oct. 10, 1982, St. John Paul II said the Polish Franciscan was granted the grace of carrying out “in an absolutely literal manner” the words of Christ: “Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
Redemptorist Father Stephen Vanyo dies at 88 August 14, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Redemptorist Father Stephen Vanyo was offered June 6 in Brazil, where the priest had devoted decades of ministry. Father Vanyo died June 5. He was 88.
Catholic summer camps help youths meet Jesus serving others struggling under poverty August 14, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Youth Ministry, Youth Programs Summer is mission trip season — which usually conjures up images of a few dozen Catholic teenagers and their chaperones practicing the corporal works of mercy in developing nations while simultaneously expanding their cultural horizons.
New review board chair: ‘We can’t be satisfied’ until there is zero abuse in church August 13, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News Retired FBI official James Bogner was recently named chair of the National Review Board, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ consultative safe environment body established in 2002 under the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” also known as the Dallas Charter.
