Mercy surgeons help residents get back on their feet at Helping Up Mission November 26, 2025By Kevin J. Parks Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, Local News, News Michael Brown was one of about 80 men receiving free foot evaluations and footwear at Helping Up Mission in Baltimore. With clippers in hand and cases of new socks and shoes ready for distribution, Mercy’s surgical team partnered with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Royal Farms for the 2025 effort.
Maryland pilgrims bring energy and joy to NCYC 2025 November 26, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Youth Ministry Cheers erupted from the Maryland delegation at the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) Nov. 21 in Indianapolis when Mia Smothers of St. Francis de Sales in Abingdon stepped up to ask the first question during a historic livestream with Pope Leo XIV.
Gratitude should accompany your turkey and pie, pope says November 26, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Thanksgiving is a “beautiful feast” that reminds everyone to be grateful for the gifts they have been given, Pope Leo XIV said.
Generating life requires having hope in life’s meaning, pope said November 26, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News A “sickness” that is widespread in the world is not believing in the meaning and beauty of life, and, consequently, lacking the courage to live and to generate life, Pope Leo XIV said.
Governor Moore visits Our Daily Bread to thank food security partners November 26, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News Maryland Governor Wes Moore visited Our Daily Bread in Baltimore City Nov. 25 to thank local food security partners who help feed hungry Marylanders.
175 lawmakers demand ‘robust’ investigation on risks of abortion pill November 26, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News Congressional Republicans are demanding a “robust” investigation of federal safety standards and health risks connected to mifepristone, a pill commonly, but not exclusively, used for early abortion.
Archbishop Coakley celebrates annual Native American Mass at Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine November 25, 2025By Sally Linhart Sooner Catholic Filed Under: News, World News Facing east toward the altar of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, Deacon Roy Callison burned cedar as his wife, Susan, recited the first of the four invocations in the Prayer in the Four Directions, a traditional spiritual practice rooted in Indigenous culture.
Marriage is an exclusive union requiring ‘tender care,’ Vatican says November 25, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News The foundation of sacramental marriage is the unity of the spouses, a bond so intense and grace-filled that it is exclusive and indissoluble, said a document from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Relic of St. Francis of Assisi coming to Ellicott City November 25, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, News, Saints A relic of St. Francis of Assisi – a fragment of the very cord he wore around his waist – will travel from Assisi, Italy, to the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City for an outdoor live Nativity prayer service Dec. 13 at 7 p.m.
‘Makes you feel like God is here’: Archbishop Lori dedicates renovated O’Dwyer Retreat Center Chapel November 25, 2025By Jay Sorgi Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News The true spiritual center of the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat Center in Sparks has been reconstructed in a way that better leads retreatants to encounter a central part of the Catholic experience: Jesus in the Eucharist.
Loyola University forensic science students help identify victim in cold case November 25, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News Loyola University Maryland forensic science students recently played a pivotal role in helping identify a woman who died in 1971, bringing a family some closure in one of Howard County’s oldest homicide cold cases.
Bishops: Affordable housing, just wages, environmental safeguards reduce food insecurity November 24, 2025By OSV News The B.C. Catholic Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News On the World Day of the Poor, Nov. 16,the bishops released “Our Daily Bread: Food Security and the Call to Solidarity,” a 10-page pastoral letter issued through the conference’s Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace.