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More than 15 foreign priests could be forced to leave archdiocese after recent visa law changes


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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


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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.

‘We are women of steel,’ LCWR honoree tells fellow women religious at assembly


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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.”

Shrine Mass marks centennial of first priestly ordinations at ‘Mary’s House’ in Washington


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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.

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