Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News, Worship & Sacraments
The Catholic bishops of Washington state asked a federal court to block a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.
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OSV News
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Every Sunday through the Nicene Creed, we Catholics profess our faith in Jesus Christ and express our complete conviction to the divine persons of the Most Holy Trinity.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
A leaked draft document on revising liturgical norms in the Diocese of Charlotte, N.C., has stirred backlash for its addressing of some practices predating the Second Vatican Council.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments
Here are five simple things you can do to prepare for Mass. They aren’t difficult or time-consuming. But they are guaranteed to help you enter more deeply into the celebration of the Mass and achieve a more intimate union with Christ and the other members of the worshiping community.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments
While the liturgical legacy of Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, may have flown under the radar for many, several experts told OSV News his 12-year papacy made a definite impact.
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Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Worship & Sacraments, Youth Ministry
George Matysek discusses the reasons for the change to a lower confirmation age with Stacy Golden, director of the Office of Family, Youth and Young Adult Ministry within the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Institute for Evangelization, and Kenn deMoll, director of formation and innovation at St. John in Westminster – a parish that has already implemented the lower age for confirmation as part of a pilot program.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically preach the good news of hope, Pope Francis wrote in the homily he prepared for the Holy Thursday chrism Mass.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments
The chrism Mass is traditionally held in the archdiocese on the Monday of Holy Week. The scheduling allows priests to be with their people in their own parishes for the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper and other liturgies of the Triduum.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Catholic faithful do not “buy” Masses, but when a priest accepts an offering and promises to celebrate a Mass for that person’s loved one or other special intention he must do so, the Vatican said.
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In record-breaking numbers, more than 17,800 catechumens will be baptized during the Easter Vigil on April 19, including 10,384 adults and more than 7,400 young people ages 11 to 17, according to an annual survey by the National Service for Catechumens of the French bishops’ conference.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments
We know that God is totally loving and merciful, and is always ready to forgive. And this is why Jesus left the church with the sacrament of penance, to provide a means for reconciliation after post-baptismal sins.
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A Satanic group’s effort to conduct a “black mass” at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 turned violent, leading to arrests, while across the street the state’s Catholic archbishop led hundreds in peaceful prayer before the Eucharist for those who “seek to mock our merciful God.”
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