Improved condition means pope can briefly go without supplemental oxygen March 17, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has been able to spend brief moments of the day without any supplemental oxygen, which is yet another sign of the gradual improvement in his condition, the Vatican press office said.
U.S. bishops continue legal battle with Trump administration over refugee resettlement funding March 17, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, DOGE cuts, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Following a setback, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is continuing its legal fight against the Trump administration’s halt in federal funding for refugee resettlement services.
4 pro-life activists found guilty, spared jail time for N.J. abortion clinic ‘rescue’ event March 17, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Four pro-life activists, including two pardoned by President Donald Trump in January for earlier convictions under the FACE Act, were found guilty of trespassing March 14 for their 2019 “rescue” at a New Jersey abortion clinic. However, they will not face jail time.
Mexican Catholics urge officials to ‘listen to victims’ amid grisly discovery of mass graves March 17, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Mexico’s Catholic leaders prayed for the country’s missing and urged the population of the country and their political leaders to listen to victims of violence amid outrage over the discovery of mass graves and ovens for cremating bodies on a drug cartel compound.
Priests helping relatives of victims of Philippine ‘war on drugs’ jubilant over Duterte’s arrest March 17, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News Two Philippine priests who work with those affected by their country’s deadly anti-drug campaign under then-President Rodrigo Duterte are closely monitoring developments in the former president’s March 11 arrest and detention at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
U.S. Holy Year pilgrims add pope to their list of prayer intentions March 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News Hundreds of pilgrims from the United States gathered for Mass at the majestic Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica with two main intentions in mind: the health of Pope Francis and the needs of their loved ones at home.
Pope approves next phase of synod, setting path to 2028 assembly March 17, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has approved the next phase of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, launching a three-year implementation process that will culminate in an ecclesial assembly at the Vatican in October 2028.
Shroud of Turin to be digitally showcased during Holy Year March 17, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News The Shroud of Turin, one of Catholicism’s most valued devotional items, will be digitally showcased during the Holy Year 2025, allowing visitors to engage with the revered relic like never before.
Bishop Sullivan of Camden, N.J., retires, is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Williams March 17, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Uncategorized, World News Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan of Camden, New Jersey, 80, and Coadjutor Bishop Joseph A. Williams immediately succeeds him as the ninth bishop of the diocese.
Film on Matt Talbot shows the power of faith, thirst for holiness March 17, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News A forthcoming docudrama is highlighting how an Irish laborer, now on the path to possible sainthood, has become a patron of those battling addiction — and those thirsting for holiness.
Vatican releases first photo of Pope Francis since his hospitalization March 16, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News For the first time since Pope Francis was hospitalized in mid-February, the Vatican press office released a photograph of him March 16; the image shows him concelebrating Mass that morning in the chapel of his suite of rooms at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.
Amid aid cuts, U.S. bishop urges Catholics to heed ‘very urgent’ CRS collection March 16, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, Giving, News, World News Amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, an annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad has taken on “a very urgent significance,” said Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg of Reno, Nevada, head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ national collections efforts.
