Pope Leo XIV on Ash Wednesday: Ask the Lord for the gift of true conversion this Lent A quick guide to fasting in Lent USCCB calls for adoration hours, works of mercy to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary Baltimore chapter of Young Catholic Professionals celebrates successful first year ‘Remember you are dust’: Why people fill the pew on Ash Wednesday Local News Archbishop Lori announces clergy appointments, including associate pastors Catholic Review Staff March 4, 2026 See new clergy appointments including pastors, associate pastors, deacons, and more. St. Frances Academy coach praises players, Lord after remarkable football season Gary Lambrecht March 4, 2026 As time ran out Dec. 10 on its home field at Baltimore’s Under Armour Stadium and St. Frances Academy finished its 37-20 rout of Corner Canyon of Utah to win the inaugural Overtime Nationals high school football title game, Panthers head coach Messay Hailermariam felt waves of joy, relief and gratitude for his players, assistants, family, school administrators and, of course, his beloved Lord. Maryland March for Life set for March 16 George P. Matysek Jr. March 2, 2026 The annual Maryland March for Life is set for March 16, kicking off at St. Mary in Annapolis with a 5:30 p.m. Mass celebrated by Archbishop William E. Lori in the church and a concurrent Christian prayer service in the school hall. A youth rally will precede the religious services 4:30-5:15 p.m. Orioles pitcher Cade Povich finds home in the Catholic Church Mark Viviano March 2, 2026 Orioles pitcher Cade Povich found fulfillment in pursuit of a deeper Christian faith, a years-long quest that led to a milestone during the Orioles 2025 season. While with the team in Minneapolis to play the Minnesota Twins, Povich and his wife, Sophia, drove 30 miles to St. Patrick Church in Hudson, Wis. More Local News World News 9 ‘perpetual pilgrims’ to travel patriotic East Coast route in 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage OSV News March 4, 2026 Nine young adults have been selected as “perpetual pilgrims” to travel with the Eucharist along the East Coast this summer in the third National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. The pilgrims — five men and four women — will participate in the pilgrimage’s full route, which begins May 24 in Florida and reaches Maine before ending in Philadelphia July 5 for U.S. semiquincentennial celebrations. Prayer, unity essential as conflict spreads to Gulf States, says apostolic vicar of region Junno Arocho Esteves March 4, 2026 The apostolic vicar of Southern Arabia warned that the current military escalation in the Persian Gulf amid the U.S. and Israel-Iran war is a conflict with “ancient roots” that poses a serious threat to the Middle East and the wider world. Amid U.S. and Israel-Iran war, Palestinian sisters find refuge in prayer at Jerusalem hospital Judith Sudilovsky March 4, 2026 Among the belongings Asma Isyed, 68, brought from her West Bank village of Zababdeh in October were a small Bible and a booklet of prayers by St. Mariam Baouardy, a Palestinian saint. Church is holy by Christ’s presence, not human perfection, pope says Josephine Peterson March 4, 2026 The Catholic Church is both a community made up of fragile and limited human beings and a divine reality, Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly general audience. More World News Commentary What we’re becoming: AI and future of human dignity Leonard J. DeLorenzo March 4, 2026 If we approach “the AI Revolution” with only an eye to potential benefits, we’ll blindly accept the deleterious consequences to human life and society. We’ll automate ourselves into irrelevance without meaning to. We’ll outsource our humanity one convenience at a time. Redemptor Hominis: more important than ever George Weigel March 4, 2026 Today, in a global culture dominated by the notion that everything in the human condition is plastic, malleable, and changeable by acts of human will — the insistence that nothing is given — the question on which the future of Christian mission and service to the world depends is, “Who are we?” Are we simply congealed stardust, the happy but accidental byproduct of billions of years of random cosmic biochemical forces? Pope Leo’s prayer to St. Francis: a call to peace in a divided world OSV News March 2, 2026 As tensions escalate following the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, we share this prayer to St. Francis of Assisi — a timeless intercessor for peace — which Pope Leo XIV shared with leaders of the Franciscan order on the beginning of the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death in January 2026. The ‘whine’ list Archbishop William E. Lori March 2, 2026 First, it’s fine to give up wine for Lent but it’s better to give up whining. Lent is the perfect time to examine ourselves. Do we whine too much? Second, let’s replace whining with mutual encouragement, bonds of charity, unity and fraternity. Do you really believe God loves you? Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P. March 1, 2026 During this Lent, I pray that we will all turn to the Cross and find there the undeniable proof of God’s personal, unconditional love. More Commentary Featured Video At the new Borgo Laudato Si’ center in Castel Gandolfo, which honors Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical on care for creation, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and Orthodox Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago received a private tour celebrating the beauty of God’s creation.
Archbishop Lori announces clergy appointments, including associate pastors Catholic Review Staff March 4, 2026 See new clergy appointments including pastors, associate pastors, deacons, and more.
St. Frances Academy coach praises players, Lord after remarkable football season Gary Lambrecht March 4, 2026 As time ran out Dec. 10 on its home field at Baltimore’s Under Armour Stadium and St. Frances Academy finished its 37-20 rout of Corner Canyon of Utah to win the inaugural Overtime Nationals high school football title game, Panthers head coach Messay Hailermariam felt waves of joy, relief and gratitude for his players, assistants, family, school administrators and, of course, his beloved Lord.
Maryland March for Life set for March 16 George P. Matysek Jr. March 2, 2026 The annual Maryland March for Life is set for March 16, kicking off at St. Mary in Annapolis with a 5:30 p.m. Mass celebrated by Archbishop William E. Lori in the church and a concurrent Christian prayer service in the school hall. A youth rally will precede the religious services 4:30-5:15 p.m.
Orioles pitcher Cade Povich finds home in the Catholic Church Mark Viviano March 2, 2026 Orioles pitcher Cade Povich found fulfillment in pursuit of a deeper Christian faith, a years-long quest that led to a milestone during the Orioles 2025 season. While with the team in Minneapolis to play the Minnesota Twins, Povich and his wife, Sophia, drove 30 miles to St. Patrick Church in Hudson, Wis.
9 ‘perpetual pilgrims’ to travel patriotic East Coast route in 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage OSV News March 4, 2026 Nine young adults have been selected as “perpetual pilgrims” to travel with the Eucharist along the East Coast this summer in the third National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. The pilgrims — five men and four women — will participate in the pilgrimage’s full route, which begins May 24 in Florida and reaches Maine before ending in Philadelphia July 5 for U.S. semiquincentennial celebrations.
Prayer, unity essential as conflict spreads to Gulf States, says apostolic vicar of region Junno Arocho Esteves March 4, 2026 The apostolic vicar of Southern Arabia warned that the current military escalation in the Persian Gulf amid the U.S. and Israel-Iran war is a conflict with “ancient roots” that poses a serious threat to the Middle East and the wider world.
Amid U.S. and Israel-Iran war, Palestinian sisters find refuge in prayer at Jerusalem hospital Judith Sudilovsky March 4, 2026 Among the belongings Asma Isyed, 68, brought from her West Bank village of Zababdeh in October were a small Bible and a booklet of prayers by St. Mariam Baouardy, a Palestinian saint.
Church is holy by Christ’s presence, not human perfection, pope says Josephine Peterson March 4, 2026 The Catholic Church is both a community made up of fragile and limited human beings and a divine reality, Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly general audience.
What we’re becoming: AI and future of human dignity Leonard J. DeLorenzo March 4, 2026 If we approach “the AI Revolution” with only an eye to potential benefits, we’ll blindly accept the deleterious consequences to human life and society. We’ll automate ourselves into irrelevance without meaning to. We’ll outsource our humanity one convenience at a time.
Redemptor Hominis: more important than ever George Weigel March 4, 2026 Today, in a global culture dominated by the notion that everything in the human condition is plastic, malleable, and changeable by acts of human will — the insistence that nothing is given — the question on which the future of Christian mission and service to the world depends is, “Who are we?” Are we simply congealed stardust, the happy but accidental byproduct of billions of years of random cosmic biochemical forces?
Pope Leo’s prayer to St. Francis: a call to peace in a divided world OSV News March 2, 2026 As tensions escalate following the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, we share this prayer to St. Francis of Assisi — a timeless intercessor for peace — which Pope Leo XIV shared with leaders of the Franciscan order on the beginning of the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death in January 2026.
The ‘whine’ list Archbishop William E. Lori March 2, 2026 First, it’s fine to give up wine for Lent but it’s better to give up whining. Lent is the perfect time to examine ourselves. Do we whine too much? Second, let’s replace whining with mutual encouragement, bonds of charity, unity and fraternity.
Do you really believe God loves you? Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P. March 1, 2026 During this Lent, I pray that we will all turn to the Cross and find there the undeniable proof of God’s personal, unconditional love.
