Supreme Court hears challenge to Tennessee’s gender transition ban for minors December 4, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 4 in a case concerning a challenge to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
Trump to attend Notre Dame Cathedral’s reopening ceremonies December 4, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News President-elect Donald Trump will attend the upcoming reopening ceremony for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, he said Dec. 2. The trip will mark his first foreign trip since his election to a second term.
El Salvador archbishop blasts mining law change, says it will cause ‘irrevocable damage’ December 4, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Environment, News, Social Justice, World News Catholic leaders in Central America expressed alarm over the idea of repealing a national prohibition on extractive activities in El Salvador — putting the church in opposition to the country’s popular president.
Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas venerated by faithful in Washington during relic’s 3-week U.S. tour December 4, 2024By Paul Macrae Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News To a packed St. Dominic Church Nov. 29, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington delivered a homily focused on the Catholic tradition of honoring the dead and on the legacy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Ukrainian art therapist helps people traumatized by the war that took her son December 4, 2024By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, War in Ukraine, World News Artist and psychologist Tetiana Myalkovska of Ukraine used her art therapy techniques to work with children who have special needs and with her country’s traumatized soldiers returning from the conflict when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
Archbishop Sheen’s canonization ‘inevitable’ amid growing devotion, says foundation head December 4, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Despite a few high-profile delays in recent years, the canonization of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen — the popular, scholarly archbishop and 20th-century pioneer of Catholic broadcasting — is “inevitable,” said the head of the foundation supporting his cause.
Vatican suppresses Texas monastery after Carmelite order dismissed its nuns December 3, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News The Holy See has suppressed the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, a month after its residents were dismissed from the Carmelite order and religious life.
U.S. basilicas, churches to ring bells at the moment Notre Dame Cathedral reopens December 3, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News As Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris officially reopens Dec. 7-8, bells will ring in churches an ocean away in the United States to celebrate the historic moment.
Biden’s controversial pardon of son Hunter brings mixed reaction, potential consequences December 3, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, News, World News President Joe Biden’s expansive pardon for his son Hunter Biden Dec. 1 brought strong reaction from Catholic political observers and lawmakers alike, including criticism from Republicans and some members of Biden’s own Democratic Party.
Pope asks the faithful to pray for God’s gift of hope December 3, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News The pope’s message encouraging prayers “for pilgrims of hope” was released by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network Dec. 3.
Preparations begin for opening Holy Doors at Vatican, Rome basilicas December 3, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News Hours after the last visitors and pilgrims left St. Peter’s Basilica for the day, a chisel clanged and dust flew as a group of prelates chanted their prayers before a simple wall marked with a cross.
Catholic agency ‘will follow’ Lebanon’s displaced ‘wherever they settle’ after ceasefire December 3, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News The head of a Catholic humanitarian agency in Lebanon told OSV News the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to be intact, as he and his team vow to assist those displaced by the conflict “wherever they settle.”
