Diaconate is ‘surrender’ to Jesus, U.S. archbishop says at ordination Mass October 3, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: deacons, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Before the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica, a symbol of the Catholic Church’s unity behind the successor of St. Peter, 15 men laid prostrate to express their humility and take vows of chastity and obedience to their bishop.
Radio Interview: Exploring ‘Story of a Soul’ September 30, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints, Vocations Beginning Oct. 1, Ascension Press offers a 28-day podcast designed to guide listeners through a reading of “Story of a Soul,” the much-loved spiritual autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. George Matysek talks about the project with one of the hosts of the new podcast, Carmelite Father Michael-Joseph Paris of St. Thérèse.
More than 15 foreign priests could be forced to leave archdiocese after recent visa law changes September 30, 2024By Lisa Harlow Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Local News, News, Vocations Unless a recent change in U.S. visa law is reversed, more than 15 priests from other countries who now serve in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may be forced to go home – uprooting their ministries and leaving parishes, schools and Catholic institutions scrambling.
Packed with punch: Clergy reflect on what goes into good preaching September 18, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: deacons, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Priests and deacons throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore take a wide variety of approaches to packing punch in their homilies. Some, including Father Murphy, sprinkle pop culture references into their messages. Others place the readings into historical context or explain how doctrinal or moral teachings apply in an increasingly secularized culture.
Radio Interview: Baltimore archdiocese welcomes increasing number of seminarians September 16, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Vocations George Matysek talks with Father Steven Roth about the increasing number of men stepping forward to discern a call to the priesthood and the impact that more priests is having on ministries throughout the archdiocese.
Consecrated virgin ‘gives all, day and night,’ amid Russia’s war in Ukraine September 14, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, War in Ukraine, World News A consecrated virgin in Ukraine told OSV News she is grateful for her vocation, which enables her to “give all, day and night,” to those impoverished by Russia’s decade-long war against her nation.
Distance learning expands continuing-education opportunities September 12, 2024By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations The Center for Continuing Formation opened in 1996 at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Homeland to encourage priests, bishops, deacons and lay ecclesial ministers to grow intellectually and spiritually,
Reflecting with St. Edith Stein on the nature of women September 12, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints, Vocations Catholics today grapple with the role of women in the workforce as well as the role of the woman who is single by choice or circumstance.
Speaker sees a time of news beginnings amid transformation of religious congregations August 31, 2024By Dan Stockman OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Though the historical era of armies of women religious functioning as a workforce for the Catholic Church is over, the sister at the forefront of efforts to guide congregations through their transformations says it is also a time of new beginnings.
‘We are women of steel,’ LCWR honoree tells fellow women religious at assembly August 29, 2024By Dan Stockman OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, Vocations, World News Sister Nancy Schreck has worked with congregations of women religious across the country and around the world, spent years in high school classrooms, and ministered for decades with other sisters in rural Mississippi, and after all that experience she has this to say about Catholic sisters: “We are women of steel.”
LCWR assembly invites sisters to become ‘catalyst for social transformation’ August 28, 2024By Dan Stockman OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, Vocations, World News However religious life evolves, whatever new religious life emerges, consecrated women will continue to answer God’s call with a courageous “YES,” sisters heard during the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Shrine Mass marks centennial of first priestly ordinations at ‘Mary’s House’ in Washington August 26, 2024By Richard Szczepanowski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News As part of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception’s continuing celebration marking 100 years of worship at “Mary’s House,” as it’s often called, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered a Mass of thanksgiving for all the priests who were ordained or otherwise connected to the church.
