2025 Christopher Awards celebrate new ‘lights in the darkness’ April 6, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Books, Movie & Television Reviews A saint, the mother of a slain journalist, a young girl with autism and a tiny mouse are all among the stories celebrated by an annual award that lifts up “lights in the darkness.”
Ukrainian Catholic University student killed by Russia honored with memorial scholarship April 6, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, War in Ukraine, World News The Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation announced that an endowed scholarship fund honoring Daryna Bazylevych and her family had collected $163,441 to date.
St. Josemaría Escrivá tops the charts, a century after his priestly ordination April 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Saints, World News On the 100th anniversary of his priestly ordination, St. Josemaría Escrivá is topping the Amazon charts.
A saint with a song: Blessed Carlo Acutis honored in ‘Corpus Christi’ single, video April 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Saints, World News Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Italian teen set to be canonized April 27, has been hailed as a model for modern youth — and now, the soon-to-be-saint and his devotion to the Eucharist have been honored in a new single and video.
40 faith leaders call on Trump, Rubio to help return abducted Ukrainian children April 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Uncategorized Forty religious leaders have sent a letter to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, calling for the return of nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia and Russian-controlled territories.
Greenland’s only Catholic priest calls his ‘rewarding, demanding’ mission a ‘dream job’ April 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News OSV News asked the Slovenian-born Father Majcen — who serves at Christ the King Church in the capital city of Nuuk — to share his experiences of ministering in Greenland.
Catholic Charities USA head awarded Notre Dame’s prestigious Laetare Medal April 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Colleges, News, World News The University of Notre Dame announced March 30 that Kerry Alys Robinson, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the school’s Laetare Medal.
Two women religious murdered in Haiti amid that nation’s ‘way of the Cross’ April 3, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Two women religious were murdered March 31 by armed gangs in the city of Mirebalais, Haiti, as long-standing violence continues to further destabilize that nation.
As Kansas Catholics pray, a Satanic group’s ‘black mass’ turns violent, with arrests March 31, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments A Satanic group’s effort to conduct a “black mass” at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 turned violent, leading to arrests, while across the street the state’s Catholic archbishop led hundreds in peaceful prayer before the Eucharist for those who “seek to mock our merciful God.”
Seitz: U.S. policy shift making migrants fearful, creating a less welcoming nation March 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News OSV News interviewed Bishop Mark J. Seitz, who heads that diocese, for his thoughts on current U.S. immigration policy and the challenges faced by those he serves in his borderlands community. Bishop Seitz currently chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration.
Hundreds join El Paso bishop’s protest against migrant mass deportation, asylum bans March 25, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Mass deportations and asylum bans — part of the Trump administration’s rapid changes to U.S. immigration policy — destroy communities and human dignity, while constituting a “war on the poor,” said Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas.
Massive USDA program cuts hit some Catholic efforts to feed school kids March 25, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Schools, World News Several diocesan overseers of federally funded school meal programs told OSV News that Trump administration changes stand to leave some children’s plates empty, while potentially making surviving versions of the programs too burdensome to operate.
