Schools convocation radiates joy in Christ August 25, 2023By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools With arriving teachers rocking out to the Archbishop Curley Drum Line, the St. John Regional Catholic School Choir from Frederick leading songs at Mass and several awards celebrations, the 2023 Catholic Education Convocation Aug. 24 prepared teachers and staff members for Monday’s opening of the Catholic school year.
Laudato Si’ 2.0: Pope announces new document ahead of ‘Season of Creation’ August 25, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Ahead of the ecumenical celebrations of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation Sept. 1 and the monthlong “Season of Creation,” Pope Francis said he is writing a follow-up document to his 2015 encyclical on the environment.
Adoration awakens love for the poor, commitment to justice, pope says August 25, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News – In the eyes of the world it would appear “absurd” to begin helping the poor and struggling for justice by spending time in adoration before the Eucharist, Pope Francis said, but that is precisely what an Italy-based religious order has been doing for 100 years.
Few GOP candidates back pro-life call for 15-week federal abortion limit at primary debate August 25, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News – Eight Republican candidates — minus the party’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump — participated in the Republican National Committee’s first debate of their party’s presidential primary process held Aug. 23 in Milwaukee. But just three of those nine candidates have said they would sign a federal abortion limit sought by a prominent pro-life group.
USCCB argues protecting innocent life must be priority in gun rights case before high court August 25, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Supreme Court, World News Protecting the innocent “is a proper consideration” in the government regulation of firearms, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case over whether the government can prohibit a person with a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm.
New prep program, modeled after ‘catechumenate,’ aims to strengthen marriages in faith August 25, 2023By Sean Gallagher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News This “marriage catechumenate” model is an effort to return to the early church’s approach to forming adults to be received into the church.
‘There’s no knocking down God’: Catholic college students weather ‘hurriquake’ with faith August 25, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Environment, Feature, News, World News Students at a Catholic liberal arts college in California told OSV News that they’re more ready than ever for the new school year, after weathering both a major storm and an earthquake on the same day.
St. Frances Academy empowers future Black pilots with Ortega Flight Academy August 25, 2023By Mary K. Tilghman Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Schools, Video Autumn Marlow is the first student in the Dr. Sandy Ortega Flight Academy, a new enrichment program offered at St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore.
Sister Dorothy Yancey, O.S.P., dies at 95 August 24, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Oblate Sister of Providence Dorothy Yancey was offered Aug. 22 at the Oblate Sisters of Providence motherhouse in Arbutus. Sister Dorothy died Aug. 13. She was 95.
Society of Jesus banned in Nicaragua August 24, 2023By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News The Nicaraguan regime has extinguished the Jesuits’ legal status and ordered the expropriation of its assets, effectively making it illegal for the Society of Jesus to operate in the Central American country.
GOP presidential contenders spar over abortion, immigration, Ukraine and Trump in first debate August 24, 2023By Kate Scanlon Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News Eight Republican candidates participated Aug. 23 in the Republican National Committee’s first debate of their party’s presidential primary process in a Milwaukee debate hosted by Fox News — but the party’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, did not attend, and was referred to by moderator Bret Baier as “the elephant not in the room.”
Ukraine’s Independence Day ‘like a July 4th,’ says archbishop August 24, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Ukraine’s Independence Day, celebrated on Aug. 24, is “like a July 4th,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of Philadelphia, head of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S.
