Maryland advocate Deirdre McQuade, 53, helped communicate bishops’ pro-life message April 28, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Respect Life, World News Longtime pro-life advocate Deirdre McQuade, who for more than a decade shared perspectives of U.S. bishops’ and the Catholic Church’s teaching on the sanctity of life, died April 21 after a bout with metastatic breast cancer. She was 53.
Loyola vice president named president of University of Portland April 28, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Robert D. Kelly, vice president and special assistant to the president at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, has been named president of the University of Portland, a Catholic university in Oregon.
Bon Secours dedicates new West Baltimore community center April 27, 2022By Kevin J. Parks Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Sisters of Bon Secours were among the hundreds of people who braved a steady rain as they gathered under a tent the afternoon of April 26 to dedicate the $6.8 million Bon Secours Community Resource Center in West Baltimore.
Hope and joy reawaken when old and young come together, pope says April 27, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News If young people recognize all that they have received with gratitude and older people take the initiative of relaunching hope in young people for their future, then nothing can stop the flourishing of God’s blessings among people, Pope Francis said.
Defending Ukrainian culture: Displaced people learn to make Easter eggs April 26, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News With “people coming to us from all over Ukraine,” a master egg painter wanted “to tell them about the symbol of Ukraine and the symbol of Easter — the Easter egg.”
Court seems to side with football coach over postgame prayers April 26, 2022By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News The majority of Supreme Court justices seemed to side with a former high school football coach April 25 who said his postgame prayers on the field — that cost him his job — amounted to private speech and not the public school’s endorsement of religion.
In message to Russian patriarch, pope prays for end of war in Ukraine April 25, 2022By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News In an Easter message to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis prayed that the Holy Spirit would “transform our hearts and make us true peacemakers, especially for war-torn Ukraine.”
RADIO INTERVIEW: Jesus is Trustworthy: Stories of Faith and Divine Mercy April 25, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Bernie Antkowiak, a musician, song writer, husband and father of 7, shares stories of faith and how the message of Divine Mercy entered his life. He became a promoter of Divine Mercy, including promoting the chaplet through music. He is a parishioner of St. Isaac Jogues in Carney.
Deacon Mortel, who inspired many to help his homeland of Haiti, dies at 88 April 23, 2022By Paul McMullen Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Missions, News, Obituaries Deacon Rodrigue Mortel, who as director of the Missions Office for the Archdiocese of Baltimore inspired dozens of parishes in the archdiocese to support sister churches in his homeland of Haiti and led hundreds of Catholic high-schoolers on summer missions there, died April 22 at his home in Hershey, Pa.
Sister Kathleen Mary Winkelman, O.S.F., dies at 86 April 22, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Kathleen Mary Winkelman will be offered April 25 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa.
Vatican clears Polish Cardinal Dziwisz of abuse cover-up allegations April 22, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican has wrapped up its own investigation and dismissed allegations that Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz had covered up cases of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy in his archdiocese.
Pope says no trip to Kyiv, meeting with Russian patriarch canceled April 22, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The meeting between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow planned for June has been canceled out of concern it could cause “confusion,” and there will be no papal visit to Kyiv while war rages.
