Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
The church’s charitable outreach to people fleeing war, political instability, poverty and other threats is a requirement for followers of Jesus, the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a March 17 statement.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill spoke via video conference about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the hopes for a peaceful solution, the Vatican said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News
A Pew Research Center study has found that only one-fourth of U.S. Black Catholics worship in majority-Black parishes.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
The leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States said March 15 that he hoped leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church would “open up and hear the Gospel,” which says, “Do not kill,” and tell Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop killing innocent Ukrainians.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during a penitential prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica March 25, the Vatican said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
The call to prayer is an “active mission,” one that does not take a believer from the world but prompts the believer to bring to God the pain and concerns of the world — including the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
Appealing again for an end to the war in Ukraine, Pope Francis said those who invoke God to promote or justify violence “profane his name.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The chairmen of several U.S. bishops’ committees and the head of March for Life March 11 praised the U.S. senators who voted to pass the government’s omnibus bill with the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life provisions included in it.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News
Franciscan Father James E. Goode, whose evangelizing work among Black Catholics became known throughout the United States and earned him the title “dean of Black Catholic preachers,” died in his sleep March 4 in New York. He was 81.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
At the behest of Pope Francis, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, arrived in Poland March 7 to offer encouragement and material help to Ukrainian refugees and the volunteers assisting them. Two days later, he crossed the border into Ukraine.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
Just a day after a U.S. House commission’s hearing on holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for “war crimes and aggression against Ukraine,” his military forces carried out an airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol in the East European country.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News
In response to more than 2 million refugees, primarily women and children, fleeing the conflict in Ukraine in recent weeks, the president and CEO of Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services said it is “alarming to see the scale of the suffering” in the region.
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