Church’s mission is seen in care for the sick, pope says in message January 10, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Vatican, World News The way individual Catholics and their parishes care for the sick offers a precise measure of just how much they either are part of or are fighting the “throwaway culture” that ignores or discards anyone seen as flawed or weak, Pope Francis said in his message for the World Day of the Sick.
Migrant pleas, border realities confront President Biden in El Paso January 10, 2023By Maria-Pia Chin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News In this first trip to the border since he took office, President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, sought to “assess border enforcement operations” and talk to those helping to manage “the historic number of migrants fleeing political oppression and gang violence in Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba,” according to the White House.
‘Prayer is real’: Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin recovers from near-fatal hit January 10, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Sports, World News Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin has united the nation and the world in prayer, supporters said at a Jan. 9 community vigil held in the injured NFL player’s hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa.
Safeguarding requires experts, survivors, support, cardinal says January 10, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News There can be no improvising or going it alone when it comes to preventing and handling cases of abuse in the Catholic Church, said U.S. Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
Catholic leaders condemn attacks on Brazil’s Congress, high court, presidential palace January 9, 2023By Lisa Alves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The National Conference of Brazilian Bishops said in a statement it was “perplexed by the serious and violent occurrences” that erupted Jan. 8 in Brasilia, the nation’s capital.
In a turn of history, Poland is country that will miss German pope the most January 9, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News Hundreds of Polish priests dropped everything and came to Rome to pay tribute to the pope emeritus.
Peace requires a ‘defense of life,’ pope tells ambassadors January 9, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News “Peace requires before all else the defense of life,” which is threatened by the “alleged ‘right to abortion,'” Pope Francis told ambassadors accredited to the Holy See.
Pope baptizes babies, urges parents to teach them to pray January 9, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments – Telling parents and godparents to teach their little ones to pray from the time they are small, Pope Francis baptized 13 babies in the Sistine Chapel as their older brothers and sisters looked on — or got away and ran around.
U.S. military archbishop visits Ukraine’s military chaplains January 9, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Ukraine’s Catholic military chaplains will eventually be “catalysts for the rebuilding” of their war-torn nation, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose three days in Ukraine included at times sheltering with Ukrainians as Russian missiles relentlessly rained down on civilian centers.
The House Speaker race over, here’s what Catholics can expect from the next Congress January 9, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News During its tenure, the next Congress and its speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, are also likely to offer a mixed bag of legislative results on issues of importance to Catholics.
How the Catholic Church influenced the pro-life movement before and after Roe January 9, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Early efforts to oppose broadening the practice of abortion in the United States were largely driven by Catholics.
Catholic activists renew calls to abolish capital punishment after ‘year of the botched execution’ January 8, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News After a report dubbed 2022 “the year of the botched execution,” Catholic activists renewed their calls for an end to capital punishment in the U.S. at both the state and federal levels.
