Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The interconnected “moral, social, political and economic crises” facing the world cannot be solved if individuals and nations continue to focus only on their own, immediate interests, Pope Francis said in his message for World Peace Day 2023.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News
The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg began offering digital book clubs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020, and they continue several times a year under the direction of Anita DiGregory, virtual experience facilitator for the shrine.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
According to Pope Francis, it takes courage and the grit of a “revolutionary” not only to follow Christ in today’s world, but also to be genuinely happy along the way.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, U.S. Congress, Vatican, World News
Bianca Jagger, a native of Nicaragua who heads her own human rights commission, said she had pleaded with the pope to condemn the regime of Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s president since 2007, and also has appealed to Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua and to the country’s conference of bishops.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Expressing his desire to bear witness to “the truth,” Pope Francis is returning three marble fragments that were originally from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, according to the Vatican.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
The Vatican has had diplomatic contact with Russia regarding comments Pope Francis made about Russian minorities being responsible for the worst acts of cruelty in the country’s war on Ukraine.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Saints, World News
Jordan began Christmas celebrations by unveiling a project that could attract 1 million pilgrims annually to the officially recognized site of Jesus’ baptism on the east bank of the Jordan River.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Health Care, Local News, News
Ascension Saint Agnes earned an award and certification from a national orthopedic surgery group for its work with patients undergoing hip and knee replacements.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Welcoming new ambassadors to the Vatican from Belize, Bahamas, Thailand, Norway, Mongolia, Niger, Uganda and Sudan Dec. 15, the pope thanked the nations they represent for the many ways they contribute “to the common good not only of their citizens but of our entire human family.”
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis encouraged youngsters to put down their phones to spend time praying and looking at other people to see their needs.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News
Catholic Extension’s cover story is about Christmas through the eyes of these children who “come from different cultures and parts of the world, but what they share in common is faith — faith in the midst of terror, violence and war,” the story said.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries
A funeral Mass for Daughter of Charity Sister Natalie (Margaret Isabelle) McCubbin was offered Dec. 7 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg.
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