Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
The Jesuits have written to 20 women who have accused Father Marko Rupnik of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse, offering to work with them to find a path of reparation “geared toward healing the wounds” caused by the former Jesuit priest.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, Supreme Court, World News
The Supreme Court March 26 upheld a Biden administration effort to regulate so-called “ghost guns,” or unserialized, untraceable firearms that can be assembled in as little as 30 minutes from kits purchased online.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2023, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms all declined, according to Vatican statistics.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Representatives of Catholic and immigration advocacy organizations, and Washington’s new Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, grappled with the need to send a clear moral message on the dignity of migrants amid the “uncertainty” of the political moment at a recent event in the nation’s capital.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, World News
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, a top contender to lead the French bishops’ conference, delivered a powerful lecture March 22 in Marseille, calling for a “reawakening of hope” in the face of global turmoil.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Jesus seeks out people in their woundedness and isolation to offer healing and hope, even when they feel furthest from God, Pope Francis said in a prepared catechesis.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News
A 30-year-old man believed to be homeless was arrested and charged with the commission of an act of terrorism following a threat he allegedly emailed to a music minister at St. Louis Catholic Church in Memphis, Tenn., claiming he wanted to “butcher” people in the church with a machete.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News
Ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas will have “dire consequences” for civil society’s future and is likely to worsen the region’s tensions for another generation, Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, said in a statement following the breakdown of a ceasefire agreement in the Holy Land.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The principal of a school run by members of Regnum Christi, the lay arm of the Legionaries of Christ, resigned after a school chaplain was arrested for sexually abusing five underage girls.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News
The language of the latest incarnation of the Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act, a bill aimed at protecting more than 2,700 pregnancy resource centers nationwide from federal and state interference, is not radically different than the language of the one introduced in Congress last year.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, World News
A special Mass for federal workers and civil servants celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington offered a message of solidarity and hope amid ongoing employment uncertainties.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News
Catholic groups that minister to migrants and refugees are expressing concern over President Donald Trump’s order to revoke the parole program that allows legal migrants from several Latin American and Caribbean countries to connect with sponsoring family members and work in the United States.
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