Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Dau Kieu Giang, who baptized a child when she was an atheist and Communist Party member, is now getting ready to be baptized herself during this Easter Vigil in a parish in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Failing to attend or celebrate Mass is not just skipping a religious obligation — it is a sign that one’s spiritual hunger is withering, the preacher of the papal household warned members of the Roman Curia.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Going to Mass and receiving Communion are signs of putting one’s trust in God and understanding he is the one who gives the courage and strength to live life to the fullest no matter how little one has, the preacher of the papal household told members of the Roman Curia.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments
The archdiocese reported that 320 catechumens – those like Jay St. John who have not been baptized – and 458 candidates – those who are baptized but have not received one or more of the sacraments of initiation – participated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion liturgy at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland on March 9.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments
Archbishop William E. Lori is lowering the standard age for confirmation in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to 9.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Liturgical leaders in the church must serve as humble guides to prayer rather than be strictly focused on the application of rules, Pope Francis said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels — although just under one quarter of the nation’s Catholics are in the pews on a regular weekly basis.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments
When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to attend Mass, but they are not obliged to do so, the Vatican said.
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Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner, Worship & Sacraments
Canon 924 is telling us that the wine, which is to become the blood of Christ, must be something that can truly be considered “wine” in a strict sense.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church’s primary legal code, one expert told OSV News.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments
Here are five things you might not know, others you once learned but perhaps forgot, and inspiration to recommit daily to seeking closer friendship with God through repentance and fighting sin, wherever it is found.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments
With our eyes reopened by the Fathers, we can now see that meaning hidden in plain sight in “the mysteries of the Rosary” and in “the mystery of Faith” in the eucharistic prayer in the Mass.
