Analysis: New immigration policies risk sending migrants back to failed states, war zones February 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, Immigration and Migration As part of swift and sweeping changes to immigration policy, the Trump administration is aiming to end or severely curtail two forms of immigration status that have been granted to hundreds of thousands escaping war, disaster, violence and humanitarian crises — Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole.
Educators awarded for innovative, faith-filled drive to advance Catholic schools February 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Schools, World News The National Catholic Educational Association, which represents some 140,000 educators serving 1.6 million students, announced the recipients of its President’s Awards and its Lifetime Commitment to Catholic Education Award.
Archbishop Pérez calls for prayer after medical jet crash in Philadelphia February 3, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia is calling for prayer, saying his “heart sank” after learning of a fatal air crash in that city Jan. 31, just two days after a midair collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter near a Washington airport killed 67.
Consecrated life is ‘a call to remember Jesus at every moment,’ says expert February 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Ahead of the World Day for Consecrated Life Feb. 2 — an observance that was instituted in 1997 by St. John Paul II and is attached to the feast of the Presentation of the Lord — OSV News spoke with Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life And Vocations.
Bishops across U.S. defend migrants, calling for immigration reform in ‘justice and mercy’ January 31, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The United States is a “nation with a proud legacy of welcome to immigrants” that also “needs secure, safe, sturdy borders,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York.
As mass deportations ramp up, Catholic clergy and religious rally for immigrants January 29, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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, 2025By 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.
