Polish Three Kings Parades break records with 2 million participants in Jubilee Year January 9, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Christmas, Jubilee 2025, News, World News Three Kings Parades across Poland Jan. 6 broke records in the Jubilee Year as 2 million people marched down the streets of 905 cities and towns in an initiative that spread abroad from the European country with vibrant popular faith.
Biden cancels final foreign trip, including papal audience, amid California wildfires January 9, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, Vatican, World News President Joe Biden has canceled his upcoming trip to Italy, including an audience with Pope Francis, in order to “remain focused on directing the full federal response” in the wake of the devastating wildfires raging in California, the White House said.
Families are ‘not alone’ in sorrow over deaths, injuries suffered in NOLA terror attack, Biden says January 9, 2025By Peter Finney Jr. OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Saying he carried with him the sorrow of the nation for a “horrific act of terrorism” on New Year’s Day that claimed the lives of 14 people on Bourbon Street, President Joe Biden told grieving families at an interfaith prayer service Jan. 6 at St. Louis Cathedral that they would one day be released from their shared pain.
Spain’s famed Camino wraps up the year with a record half million pilgrims January 8, 2025By Andreas Drouve OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News The boom in the number of pilgrims on Spain’s famous El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, hit a record of almost half a million last year. Among them were 38,000 Americans.
Ahead of U.S. Franciscans’ synod, friars say ‘communal discernment’ long-held tradition for order January 8, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vocations, World News While “synodality” might be a new concept to Catholics surprised by the Vatican’s request that dioceses worldwide engage in community discernment from 2021-2024, the U.S. friars of the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe — humble as they are — would still like to gently remind us it’s something Franciscans like themselves have been doing for centuries.
Notre Dame’s first concert a ‘moment of grace’ for young composer of Marianchoral piece January 8, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News With places fully booked at Paris’ iconic cathedral for months ahead, Notre Dame is not only back to its former glory but also to its full concert schedule.
Franciscan Sister Marietta Culhane, former pastoral life director, dies at 94 January 7, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Marietta Culhane will be offered 11 a.m. Jan. 10 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Marietta died Jan. 6. She was 94 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 71 years.
Philadelphia archbishop unveils new evangelization plan with 50 ‘missionary hubs’ January 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia has announced a new initiative to open hearts, rather than shutter parishes, in countering declining numbers both of faithful and of active priests in an archdiocese he has long called home.
India’s Syro-Malabar Catholic Church begins synod amid liturgy row January 7, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Synodality, World News A crucial meeting of the India-based Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Church’s synod of bishops began amid a simmering decades-old liturgy dispute over the rubrics of Mass.
St. Peter’s Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks January 7, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News More than half a million pilgrims crossed the threshold of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in the first two weeks after Pope Francis opened it.
New Washington cardinal’s tenure to overlap with second Trump administration January 7, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News With his appointment as new archbishop of Washington Jan. 6, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy’s term in the nation’s capital will begin shortly after President-elect Donald Trump begins his second stint in the White House, possibly creating flashpoints between the pair during their time in the nation’s capital over immigration and a host of other issues.
‘Jesus was her everything’: The ‘Fastest Nun in the West’ moves closer to canonization January 7, 2025By Zoey Maraist OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Saints, World News A religious sister who befriended Billy the Kid, calmed a lynch mob and testified against human trafficking is one step closer to canonization.
