Archdiocese of Baltimore offers resources for parishes to assist migrants July 24, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News The Archdiocese of Baltimore has created a web page to guide its parishes in the event that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or other law enforcement officials arrive on their campuses.
Third annual gun buyback scheduled for Aug. 9 July 24, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, Local News, News The Archdiocese of Baltimore will hold its third annual gun buyback event Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Westside Shopping Center, 2413 Frederick Ave.
Ireland’s abortion rates rise 62 percent over 5 years; Catholic advocates call it ‘a tragedy’ July 24, 2025By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Abortions in Ireland spiked in the space of just five years, government figures have revealed.
Miami archbishop presses for pastoral visitation at Alligator Alcatraz July 24, 2025By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Florida’s senior bishop is pressing local, state and federal authorities for permission to bring Catholic pastoral care to the already infamous Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center.
Body of Blessed Frassati, relic of Blessed Acutis will be in Rome for Jubilee July 24, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry The relics of two saints-to-be — Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis — will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth July 28-Aug. 3, according to worldyouthday.com.
Driver arrested after crashing into entrance of Esperanza Center July 23, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News A Fells Point man is still in jail following a car crash that damaged the entrance of the Esperanza Center in the early hours of July 20.
IDF says Gaza Holy Family Parish hit was errant mortar round that veered off course July 23, 2025By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News An Israel Defense Forces investigation concluded that the strike on the Holy Family Parish compound on July 17 was the result of an accidental mortar round that veered off course during “operational activity” by IDF troops in the area of Gaza City, the IDF said in a July 23 statement.
Holy See at the UN urges sustainable development as U.S. pulls out of UNESCO July 23, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, delivered a statement at the general debate of the U.N. Economic and Social Council’s High-Level Political Forum July 22, the same day that the Trump administration said the U.S. would withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO.
Peace by force is a ‘troubling’ idea, Iran cardinal says July 23, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News The recent 12-day war between Israel and Iran has brought about fear and anxiety in the country and tested the faith of its small Catholic community, said Belgian Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of Tehran-Isfahan.
U.S. to withdraw, again, from UNESCO over Palestine and UN development goals July 23, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News The Trump administration on July 22 said the United States would withdraw from the United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO, a group that has partnered with the Holy See on human development and cultural heritage projects.
Judge blocks defunding of some, but not all, Planned Parenthood groups July 23, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News A federal judge on July 21 extended an order blocking enforcement of a provision in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which President Donald Trump signed into law July 4, that would have stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year.
Catholic Church mourns deaths in Bangladesh military plane crash July 23, 2025By Stephan Uttom Rozario OSV News Filed Under: News, World News In Bangladesh, grief and shock gripped the capital, Dhaka, after a military jet crashed into Milestone School and College on July 21, killing at least 31 and injuring more than 170.
