All in-person learning returns as enrollment ticks upward in Archdiocese of Baltimore schools August 29, 2021By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Schools The resumption of all in-classroom instruction comes as enrollment has increased approximately 6 to 7 percent from last year.
Pope meets with genocide survivor who inspired his Iraq trip August 28, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis held a private audience with Nadia Murad, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and survivor of the Islamic State-led genocide in Iraq, Aug. 26 at the Vatican.
Catholic Medical Association joins lawsuit over HHS ‘transgender mandate’ August 27, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News The Philadelphia-based Catholic Medical Association Aug. 26 joined in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures on any patient despite any moral or medical objections of the doctor or health care facility.
High court says eviction moratorium illegal, alarming Catholic Charities CEO August 27, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News A national eviction moratorium that protected millions of Americans who have fallen behind on rent payments is unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
As Afghanistan convulses, Catholic organizations help refugees in U.S. August 26, 2021By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, World News Faith-based groups, including Catholic organizations, also have been calling on the Biden administration to speed up the evacuations.
Archbishop Lori calls for prayers in wake of attack in Kabul August 26, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, Local News, News Acts of terror are an attack against all of us and have no place in a civilized or just society.
During schools convocation, Tom Alban and Robert Redfield awarded archdiocese’s highest education honor August 26, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools Two leaders who helped the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Catholic schools navigate the pandemic were honored with the Doris Musil Award, the highest honor the Catholic school system bestows each year.
High court orders Biden administration to restore Trump-era border policy August 26, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The U.S. Supreme Court late Aug. 24 said the Biden administration must restore a Trump-era immigration policy known as “Remain in Mexico.”
Roots of Peace founder fears for her nearly 400 employees in Afghanistan August 26, 2021By Christina Gray Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, World News Roots of Peace founder Heidi Kuhn is on a deadline-driven, life-or-death mission to get her nearly 400 employees out of Afghanistan by Aug. 31.
Make sure evacuated kids will be reunited with parents, Vatican paper says August 25, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Heartbreaking images of mothers and fathers handing their infants and toddlers to U.S. soldiers during the evacuation of Kabul were like seeing the desperation of Jochebed, Moses’ mother, as she put him in a basket in the Nile River to save him, said an editorial in the Vatican newspaper.
Hypocrisy in the church is ‘detestable,’ pope says at audience August 25, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Hypocrites are afraid of the truth, fearful of who they really are and incapable of truly loving, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience.
Push to ban ‘killer robots’ gets a boost from the Vatican and the pope August 24, 2021By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Among the many threats to human life and dignity, the Vatican is making sure that the widening use of lethal autonomous weapons systems worldwide is not reduced to a natural progression of technology that people learn to accept and live with.
