Is there a role for Jesus in modern evidence-based medicine? Catholic Review Managing Editor George Matysek talks about it with Dr. Luigi Adamo, Director for Cardiac Immunology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology in Baltimore.
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‘God protected him’: Louisiana priest in stable condition after machete attack
A priest in Melville, Louisiana, is stable and recovering following a July 13 attack with a machete at his church campus. The priest is at a hospital being treated for lacerations to his head and body.
In gardening and parish life, ‘we need God’s grace to add to the effort,’ says priest
For Father Benny Chittilappilly, a Vocationist priest from southern India, gardening is about more than growing vegetables.
FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill
The Food and Drug Administration announced July 13 it approved the sale of a birth control pill without a prescription for the first time in the United States, a move that will increase the availability of oral contraception and impact ongoing debates about abortion policy post-Dobbs.
Medieval altar masterpiece of Kraków, Poland, receives European ‘Oscar of Culture’
The European Commission and Europa Nostra foundation has honored Poland’s medieval altarpiece for outstanding conservation. The Wit Stwosz (Veit Stoss) altar is widely regarded as a Gothic masterpiece.
Dr. Joseph Thomas, ‘Unbound,’ and the ‘great adventure of blessings’
Turning points are often the result of the workings of the Holy Spirit, as was the experience for Dr. Joseph Thomas, a parishioner of Church of the Resurrection, Ellicott City, and retired specialist in allergy and clinical immunology
Meet four 2023 Distinctive Scholars
The Archdiocese of Baltimore honored the three top-performing graduating seniors from each of the 18 Catholic high schools of the archdiocese during the 31st annual Distinctive Scholars Convocation, March 30 at Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn.
U.S. to provide Ukraine cluster munitions opposed by the church as ‘inhumane’
President Joe Biden defended what he called a “very difficult decision” to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of that country, weapons the Vatican opposes.
Ukraine’s military chaplains ‘in position’ on front line, ‘ready to heal the wounds of war’
Ukrainian military chaplains told OSV News they’re standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their troops across a long front line, while readying themselves for a post-war ministry of healing throughout their nation.
No place like Bill’s Place in Western Maryland
A priest walking into a bar is no joke at Bill’s Place, a remote, log-cabin hangout right in the heart of Western Maryland’s 49,000-acre Green Ridge State Forest.
Raging conflicts all over the world drive migration and displacement, say experts
Violence and conflict leave people’s homes uninhabitable and force them to flee, said experts while discussing the root causes of migration.
Pro-life advocates take ‘moment to regroup’ after Maine expands abortion access
With Maine set to broadly expand access to abortion, pro-life advocates in that state are taking “a moment to regroup,” said an official from the Diocese of Portland.