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Epiphany highlights Ukrainians’ fight for ‘movement toward freedom,’ says archbishop

January 8, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News

Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, the feast of the Epiphany highlights Ukrainians’ fight for “something new: the movement toward freedom,” said Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Supreme Court reinstates Idaho’s near-total abortion ban to hear case backed by Catholic groups

January 8, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, which the court temporarily reinstated after the Justice Department asserted the law conflicted with a federal statute on emergency medical care.

Newly translated Padre Pio letters are coming to your email inbox

January 5, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News

The St. Pio Foundation has announced the release of “Epistolary,” a collection of 365 letters written by St. Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio, to his spiritual directors and students.

U.S. bishops asked to hold new rounds of Synod on Synodality listening sessions

January 5, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, World News

Dioceses across the U.S. are asked to hold additional listening sessions in the next few months, following a request from the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops which is preparing for the second session of the global Synod on Synodality in October.

‘Padre Pio’ actor Shia LaBeouf fully enters the Catholic Church New Year’s Eve

January 4, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News

Shia LaBeouf, a Hollywood veteran and star of director Abel Ferrara’s film “Padre Pio,” received the sacrament of confirmation, completing his initiation into the Catholic faith, during the New Year holiday weekend, according to announcements posted Jan. 2 to Facebook and Instagram by the Capuchin Franciscans’ Western American Province.

Clergy renew calls to support Ukraine after massive Russian attack on civilians

January 2, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News

Sorrow, anger and renewed calls to support Ukraine have been issued by Ukrainian Catholic and other Ukrainian clergy, following a massive Dec. 29 attack on that nation by Russia.

Christian persecution on the rise globally, but overlooked, says expert

January 2, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

Data shows that Christian persecution is on the rise globally — but that repression remains largely overlooked in the news cycle, one expert told OSV News.

First woman named to key Philadelphia archdiocesan post inspired by faith of other women

January 1, 2024
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News

Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia announced Dec. 1 the appointment of Heather Huot as that archdiocese’s secretary for Catholic Human Services, overseeing three agencies — Catholic Social Services, Catholic Housing and Community Services and Nutritional Development Services — that combine to form the largest faith-based human services provider in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Indiana Catholic women’s college reverses transgender admission policy

December 22, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News

A Catholic women’s college has reversed its recently updated admissions policy on applicants who identify as transgender, following public pushback and the local bishop’s call to uphold Catholic teaching on the inherent connection between sex and gender.

Prague archbishop expresses ‘deep sorrow’ after mass shooting at university

December 22, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News

Fourteen people were killed and another 25 injured in a Dec. 21 shooting at a university in Prague.

Experts: Vatican declaration on blessings walks a fine line on marriage, pastoral care

December 19, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

A new declaration from the Vatican on pastoral blessings does not change the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage, Catholic experts told OSV News, but seeks to extend the church’s accompaniment to those in irregular situations.

Kyiv parish enshrines St. John Paul II relics as sign of ‘strength to endure’ persecution

December 11, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News

A Catholic church in Ukraine named for St. Nicholas marked its patron’s feast day by enshrining relics from St. John Paul II, who witnessed the power of faith over authoritarianism.

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