‘Waking up to God’: Desire for community, renewed faith interest may explain U.S. boost in numbers of new Catholics April 17, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Evangelization, Feature, News, World News At the April 19 Easter Vigil at parishes across America, the church will welcome many new Catholics.
What happened Holy Thursday night? One Polish nun says she knows April 17, 2025By Agnieszka Bugala OSV News Filed Under: Divine Worship, Easter, News, World News A hidden chapter of Christ’s Passion has come to light through the mystical revelations of Servant of God Sister Leonia Nastal, a Polish nun whose spiritual diary offers harrowing details of Jesus’ imprisonment before the crucifixion.
Church accompanies scarred Cambodians 50 years into the Khmer Rouge genocide April 17, 2025By Simone Orendain Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News On the 50th anniversary of when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and left close to 2 million people dead, the Catholic Church there, still a fledgling minority, is making strides, according to religious missionaries who have spent significant years of service in the southeast Asian country.
Pope sends ‘generous’ donation to aid Myanmar quake victims April 16, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has sent “a generous contribution” to Myanmar to help people impacted by a major earthquake in late March.
JD Vance announces trip to Rome, meeting at Vatican April 16, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, his office said.
Pope thanks medical team that cared for him during hospitalization April 16, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis personally thanked the health care workers and medical staff who cared for him in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for 38 days while he recovered from respiratory infections.
Ukrainians wounded, weary but believe in God and have hope, says Bishop Vincke after USCCB delegation’s visit April 16, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine now in its fourth year, Ukrainians are deeply wounded but nonetheless have hope, a Kansas bishop recently told OSV News.
Vatican inaugurates nursery school for employees’ children April 16, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Vatican inaugurated a nursery school for children of Vatican employees April 14.
Bronze sculpture in St. Peter’s Square offers message of hospitality April 16, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News A new bronze sculpture installed in St. Peter’s Square, near the showers and medical clinic the Vatican runs for people in need, invites visitors to reflect on the sacredness of welcoming others, especially the marginalized.
God always waits, goes looking for those who are lost, pope says April 16, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Gospel contains a great message of hope, “because it tells us that wherever we are lost and however we are lost, God always comes looking for us!” said the text for Pope Francis’ weekly general audience.
Ahead of Holy Thursday, Irish priest forgives radicalized teenager who stabbed him April 16, 2025By Sarah Mac Donald OSV News Filed Under: Lent, News, World News In a powerful courtroom moment just before Holy Week, Irish Army chaplain Father Paul Murphy forgave the radicalized teenager who tried to kill him in a 2024 knife attack.
El Salvador president says he won’t return erroneously deported, imprisoned man to U.S. April 15, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Trump administration officials and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on April 14 dismissed arguments that an erroneously deported Maryland man should be returned to the United States from a prison where he is being held in El Salvador.
