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.
Sprankle honored for service to youths, their leaders August 23, 2021By Priscila González de Doran Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Youth Ministry Raised in St. Mark Parish in Catonsville and a graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School, Sprankle led youth ministry at St. Mary in Annapolis for 10 years, and has done the same for St. Louis in Clarksville the last 26.
RADIO INTERVIEW: From Baltimore to the Border August 23, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News, Radio Interview Father Brian Nolan talks with Daughter of Charity Sister Liz Sjoberg about a calling that has brought her to Pasadena, MD, Mount St. Mary’s University, and currently at the front lines serving the poor at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Cardinal Burke remains hospitalized, but he’s off ventilator, out of ICU August 23, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remained hospitalized for COVID-19 but as of Aug. 21 he was taken off a ventilator that he had been on for some days and taken out of the ICU to be returned to a regular hospital room, according to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse.
U.S. missionary nuns fly home after quake to organize shipment to Haiti August 23, 2021By Tom Tracy Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Getting emergency supplies and aid into the Haiti region most impacted by the Aug. 14 earthquake will prove a major logistical challenge, said two missionary nuns who work in Haiti.
Seek God through a relationship with Christ, others, pope says at Angelus August 23, 2021By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Vatican, World News God can be found in the humanity of Jesus and in the people one meets in life, Pope Francis said.
Faith leaders raise concerns over online censorship of religious speech August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online,” San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote.
Keynotes, working sessions, reflection time make up LCWR’s virtual assembly August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Hundreds of members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and guests convened for the organization’s annual assembly Aug. 11-13, which was as much a retreat as a meeting.
British Museum exhibit on St. Thomas Becket gives sympathetic look at past August 20, 2021By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Saints, World News In a gallery of The British Museum, light plays on an array of medieval crosses, reliquaries and manuscripts, as an audiovisual display reenacts one of English history’s most notorious crimes.
How to help earthquake victims in Haiti August 20, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Local News, News In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop William E. Lori is encouraging parishes to designate poor box collections or second collections to benefit earthquake victims. Funds collected will go to Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services.
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway August 19, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Two Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan Aug. 16 as they were returning home to Juba. Seven other sisters survived the attack.
Expanding Father Watters’ vision, St. Ignatius Parish will add grades to pre-school August 19, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Urban Vicariate The Jesuit footprint on local education expanded Aug. 19, with the announcement that the Loyola Early Learning Center, an initiative of St. Ignatius Parish in Baltimore and the Jesuit USA East Province, will open a kindergarten in September, with plans to grow into a PreK-Grade 4 school serving low-income children.
