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.
Kansas Satanists forced to admit under oath they don’t possess Eucharist for ‘black mass’ March 21, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments A Satanic group planning a “black mass” at the Kansas Statehouse March 28 has sworn in court it is not in possession of a consecrated host and wine the group said it aimed to desecrate at the event.
Kansas archbishop sues Satanists over alleged theft of Eucharist for ‘black mass’ March 20, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has filed a motion for the return of the Eucharist, a consecrated host and consecrated wine a Satanic group claims to have stolen, with the archbishop stating that all sacred species are the property of the Catholic Church.
Gudziak: America ‘silencing its own voice’ with VOA shutdown March 19, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Journalism, News, War in Ukraine, World News Journalists dismissed by the Trump administration’s gutting of the federally funded Voice of America broadcaster “will not be silenced,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
U.S. Catholics help ‘heal the wounds of war’ in Ukraine through fund March 19, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Catholic bishops and faithful in the U.S. are helping to heal broken bodies, minds and spirits in Ukraine amid Russia’s full-scale invasion, thanks to a church-driven initiative that has “reacted with lightning speed” and “very little bureaucracy” to the crisis, said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Wichita Catholic church vandalized in what bishops’ call ‘hate crime’ March 18, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A Catholic church in Kansas has been targeted in what that state’s bishops are calling a “hate crime.”
Some Chews Life rosaries, teethers recalled for choking hazard March 17, 2025By Gina Christian Filed Under: News, World News More than a dozen models of rosaries and teethers designed for young children are being recalled, following the identification of a potential choking hazard.
Film on Matt Talbot shows the power of faith, thirst for holiness March 17, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News A forthcoming docudrama is highlighting how an Irish laborer, now on the path to possible sainthood, has become a patron of those battling addiction — and those thirsting for holiness.
Amid aid cuts, U.S. bishop urges Catholics to heed ‘very urgent’ CRS collection March 16, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, Giving, News, World News Amid the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, an annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad has taken on “a very urgent significance,” said Bishop Daniel H. Mueggenborg of Reno, Nevada, head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ national collections efforts.
