Methodist minister, partner receive same-sex blessing from Chicago parish in video May 1, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News A former Methodist minister has sought a blessing on her same-sex union from a priest at a parish within the Archdiocese of Chicago, months after the Vatican issued a document on the possibility of giving spontaneous, non-liturgical pastoral blessings to couples in irregular situations.
Ukrainian archbishop meets with military officials on missing priests, detained civilians May 1, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church recently met with Ukrainian military officials to discuss a range of issues, including Russia’s detention of two Ukrainian Catholic priests whose fate remains unknown.
It’s the year of the Paris Olympics. Here are the Catholic must-sees in the French capital May 1, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Olympics, Sports, World News More than 15 million visitors are expected to descend upon the city of Paris this summer for the 2024 Olympics. The French capital will serve as the stage for over 300 events in 32 sports — including, for the first time, breakdancing — to test participants’ adherence to the time-honored Olympic creed: “The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.”
‘Tortured Poet’ Taylor Swift offers troubled tales of our time May 1, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News Taylor Swift grapples with the weight of her words in her latest offering “The Tortured Poets Department,” a 31-track double album that explores heartbreak, fame and longing.
Religious formation must also be human, ongoing, pope says May 1, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Seminarians and religious men and women need well-rounded formation throughout their lives, not only at the onset of their religious training, Pope Francis said.
Alleged victims of Father Marko Rupnik: His art cannot be separated from abuse claims April 30, 2024By Federica Tourn OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News For the rector of the world’s second largest church after St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil, May 11 will be a day of celebrating the inauguration of the southern facade’s mosaics, all created by Father Marko Rupik.
Global group of pastors looks at parishes, synodality and mission April 30, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The collaboration of laity and priests in the life of a parish and in outreach to the surrounding community “is not a strategy,” but the result of taking the sacraments of baptism and confirmation seriously rather than allowing it to remain “a beautiful principle, a virtuous and pious intention,” a Canadian theologian told hundreds of pastors.
Biden administration announces new regulations on gender identity policies April 30, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News The Department of Health and Human Services announced new regulations April 26 that restore Obama-era protections for patients who identify as transgender that the Trump administration rolled back in 2020. The new rule follows another controversial rule adding gender identity to Title IX protections.
Catholics criticize judicial authorizations for euthanasia in Peru despite pro-life laws April 30, 2024By Eduardo Campos Lima OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Catholic groups in Peru have been planning their reaction to two cases involving judicial authorizations for euthanasia in the South American nation. They argue the country’s law doesn’t allow such procedures and hope to halt what they see as a surreptitious process to advance a pro-death agenda.
Fill empty lands with God, pope tells seminarians from rural areas April 30, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis urged the future pastors of “empty Spain,” the Spanish regions known for their historical richness but currently facing depopulation and economic challenges, to remember that “Jesus wants me in these empty lands to fill them with God.”
Vatican announces papal visit to Verona, Italy April 30, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis will celebrate the vigil of Pentecost in Verona, Italy, the setting for Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet.”
As women, children starve, Sudan in desperate need of help, say Catholic aid workers April 30, 2024By Tonny Onyuolo OSV News Filed Under: Giving, News, World News Catholic agencies, along with other Christian charities in Sudan, have intensified their food distribution campaign across the country to save hundreds of thousands of suffering Sudanese people from extreme hunger as the civil war entered its second year.
