Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
To end “Catholic Woodstock” — as World Youth Day has been called by the Portuguese press — Pope Francis told 1.5 million weary-eyed and sleep-deprived young people in Lisbon not to let their “great dreams” of changing the world be “stopped by fear.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ international policy committee called on Catholics and all people of goodwill to pray that the leaders of the United States and other nations around the globe “who govern the control” of nuclear weapons “will earnestly seek to make critically needed progress on arms control.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
A pro-life group has launched a multimillion dollar ad buy in the final days before an Aug. 8 Ohio special election that could significantly impact an abortion ballot initiative in the state in November.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News
Lay men and women carrying out missionary work in parishes, either on a full time or volunteer basis, are helping Catholic clergy expand the evangelizing reach of their ministry wherever they are, from urban centers to prairie towns.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
Before 200,000 pilgrims at Fátima, many of them with tears in their eyes, Pope Francis called for a new Marian devotional title — “Our Lady in a Hurry” — to describe how Mary hastens to care for all her children.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
When feelings of suffering, anxiety and loneliness bring young people to tears, Jesus cries with them and walks alongside them on the way of the cross, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
While Pope Francis was visiting Portugal for World Youth Day, talk of future papal trips — including to Kosovo and Argentina — was making headlines as were some of his thoughts about the need for the Catholic Church to be open to all.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News
How do thermometer-bursting digits relate to wider concerns about climate change, a warming earth, and the call to action of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si'” — and can individual Catholics make a difference?
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against a new Illinois law, blocking the law’s restrictions on speech that was affecting the state’s 100 pregnancy resource centers.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
Rivers of young people flowed through the streets of Lisbon on their way to Eduardo VII Park on Aug. 3 for the World Youth Day welcome ceremony with Pope Francis.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023
Over a three-course meal with young people, Pope Francis cracked jokes and talked soccer but also addressed the tough topics that young Catholics are grappling with today, such as abortion and euthanasia.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Sister Jeanne Albrittain of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be offered Aug. 7 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Dunmore, Pa. Sister Jeanne, formerly known as Sister Mary Anton, died July 23. She was 90.
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