Gina Christian

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As mass deportations ramp up, Catholic clergy and religious rally for immigrants

January 29, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Clergy and religious continue to speak out against the Trump administration’s orders to carry out mass deportation operations and allow for immigration arrests in houses of worship, schools and other locations formerly designated as “sensitive.”

Canon, civil law collide on seal of confession, says expert

January 28, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church’s primary legal code, one expert told OSV News.

Catholic K-12 excellence shows kids ‘the vision of life in Jesus Christ,’ says USCCB leader

January 26, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, World News

Ahead of national Catholic Schools Week 2025 (Jan. 26-Feb. 1), OSV News spoke with Mary Pat Donoghue, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Catholic Education, for her thoughts on the state of Catholic education in the nation.

Philly priest: New immigration arrest policy threatens freedom to worship

January 24, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News

A Philadelphia priest has called new Trump administration policies on immigration arrests a threat to the church’s religious freedom and people’s right to worship without fear.

Most Americans support legal limits on abortion, Knights-Marist poll shows

January 23, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, Respect Life, World News

A majority of Americans support legal limits on abortion, according to results from a Knights of Columbus-Marist poll released Jan. 23.

Bishop Burbidge: IVF presents an ‘obvious’ and ‘subtle’ threat to human dignity

January 22, 2025
By Gina Christian
Catholic Review Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

In vitro fertilization, which is contrary to Catholic teaching, poses threats “to human dignity and human rights” in ways both “very obvious” and “at other times quite subtle,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va.

‘We go to cry with them,’ says nun as migrants lament Trump immigration orders

January 22, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

Hours after the inauguration, Trump issued several executive orders, one of which declared migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border an emergency.

Catholic U., facing $30M deficit, considers ‘three main changes’ to academic operations

January 21, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News

The Catholic University of America in Washington will look into consolidating some academic departments, as part of a recently announced effort to address a $30 million budget deficit.

‘The Rosary in a Year’ podcast: ‘Poco a poco’ to the Lord

January 20, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

“The Rosary in a Year” chart-topping podcast is a step-by-step journey to a deeper relationship with the Lord, its host told OSV News.

Report: 20 years of data shows clerical abuse allegations down in U.S.

January 17, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News

A new report confirms OSV News’ previous finding that U.S. Catholic dioceses and eparchies have paid more than $5 billion to settle abuse claims filed over the past two decades — but credible allegations have declined significantly over the same period, with the majority of cases preceding a landmark set of anti-abuse protocols established by the U.S. bishops in 2002.

Jubilee Year gives new hope for ending, healing from abortion, says bishop

January 15, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Respect Life, World News

As the nation’s Catholics prepare to commemorate unborn children in prayer, a U.S. bishop is pointing to the Jubilee Year as a time of hope for healing from the wounds of abortion.

Thief steals precious crown from statue of Mary at Philadelphia church

January 14, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News

A Philadelphia parish is in shock following the brazen theft of an historic golden crown from a beloved statue of Mary.