Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis received a new, emission-free, all-electric popemobile from representatives of Mercedes-Benz, the German car manufacturer that has been supplying vehicles for the popes for nearly 100 years.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
Christmas this season in the Holy Land will be celebratory, despite ongoing bloodshed and war, the patriarchs of the Holy Land said, as Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa encouraged pilgrims to come back to the birthplace of Jesus.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
The celebration of a Holy Year every 25 years is an acknowledgment that “the Christian life is a journey calling for moments of greater intensity to encourage and sustain hope as the constant companion that guides our steps toward the goal of our encounter with the Lord Jesus,” Pope Francis wrote.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News
Charity involves more than offering material aid to those in need; it also calls for a commitment to fostering societal change, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News
He’s worked with patients whose ears were bitten off in dog attacks. He’s seen people whose eyes or ears were lost in accidents or whose flesh was ravaged by aggressive cancers. And he’s helped others born without body parts or who suffered unimaginable gunshot wounds.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News
Christmas gifts made by hand offer many benefits, artists and crafters say, no matter if they are baked, painted, sewed or melted. They are one-of-a-kind and mean a lot to both the givers and the receivers.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Homilies must be prepared with the help of the Holy Spirit, be shorter than 10 minutes and put the spotlight on the Lord, not oneself, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News
During two days of meetings, Pope Francis and his closest cardinal advisers discussed the relationship between local churches and other institutional church assemblies, a main topic of discussion to come out of the Synod of Bishops on synodality.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Health Care, News, Supreme Court, World News
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 4 in a case concerning a challenge to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News
President-elect Donald Trump will attend the upcoming reopening ceremony for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, he said Dec. 2. The trip will mark his first foreign trip since his election to a second term.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Environment, News, Social Justice, World News
Catholic leaders in Central America expressed alarm over the idea of repealing a national prohibition on extractive activities in El Salvador — putting the church in opposition to the country’s popular president.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News
To a packed St. Dominic Church Nov. 29, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington delivered a homily focused on the Catholic tradition of honoring the dead and on the legacy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
