Pax Christi is honored with first Dorothy Day Peacemaker Award as global conflicts spike June 12, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News On June 11 — at a breakfast before the annual spring meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Louisville, Kentucky — Pax Christi received the inaugural Dorothy Day Peacemaker Award from the Dorothy Day Guild.
Marquette University’s first lay president dies in Rome on pilgrimage June 12, 2024By Sam Lucero OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, Obituaries, World News Michael R. Lovell, 57, president of Marquette University, died June 9 in Italy while on a Jesuit formation pilgrimage with members of the Society of Jesus and the Jesuit university’s board of trustees.
Swedish cardinal urges Catholics to make voices heard on abortion issue June 12, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Sweden’s Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm called on the country’s Catholics to engage others in meaningful ways to protect the lives of the unborn.
Pro-life advocates mark 2 years since Dobbs: ‘We have a challenge on our hands’ June 11, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News Prior to the second anniversary of a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its prior abortion precedent, pro-life activists said much of their work remains to be done.
Man arrested outside Salt Lake City cathedral, charged with assault June 11, 2024By Marie Mischel OSV News Filed Under: News, World News The assault at the Salt Lake City cathedral is one of the latest incidents occurring at Catholic churches in the U.S. and Canada, among them a Texas priest being pepper-sprayed while hearing confessions in April and 10 protesters disrupting the Easter Vigil Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York March 30.
Back to basics: New stage of formation helps shape spiritually grounded seminarians June 11, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Promoted by Pope Francis, the additional year of formation focuses less on academics and more on cultivating virtue and a well-tuned prayer life – along with a sense of service and fraternity.
Coming home: First-year seminarians returning to historic Paca Street location June 11, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations A $10 million project to open the Blessed Father Michael J. McGivney Propaedeutic House of Formation is nearing completion along Paca Street in Baltimore, with the first seminarians expected to arrive in August.
Music teaches harmony with others, self and church, pope says June 11, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church should function like a choir where every member contributes his or her unique part to create a harmonious whole, Pope Francis said.
Eucharist reflects God’s ‘journey of love’ with his people, Cardinal Gregory says June 10, 2024By Mark Zimmermann OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The Eucharist reflects God’s steadfast friendship and “journey of love” with his people, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington said in his homily at the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Mass June 9 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
After Israeli hostage rescue, pope renews call for cease-fire, humanitarian aid in Gaza June 10, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis once again renewed his call for a cease-fire in Gaza following the rescue of four hostages that led to what officials in Gaza said was the killing of more than 270 Palestinians in an Israeli rescue operation that one European Union diplomat deemed a “massacre.”
More than 1,200 take to the streets of nation’s capital for National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 10, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News More than 1,200 faithful took to the streets of the nation’s capital June 8 to celebrate the arrival of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Washington with prayers, songs and a procession.
Lawyer for arrested former Vatican employee says manuscript is mystery June 10, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The lawyer for the former Vatican employee accused of trying to sell St. Peter’s Basilica an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript about plans for the massive canopy over the basilica’s main altar said the illustrated manuscript is different from one listed in the archives and later reported missing.
