Basilian Sisters given Catholic Extension’s top honor for ‘powerful witness’ amid peril in Ukraine September 29, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Catholic Extension has named the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great as the 2023-2024 recipients of its highest honor, the Lumen Christi Award. The Chicago-based nonprofit, which since 1905 has supported Catholic faith communities in the nation’s poorest regions, announced the decision in a Sept. 27 press release.
U.S. Catholic archbishop receives award from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy September 22, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia received the Cross of Ivan Mazepa from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sept. 21 in Washington. Zelenskyy visited the U.S. capital for meetings after addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York Sept. 19.
‘¿Qué va a pasar?’: El fallo sobre DACA mantiene a los ‘Dreamers’ en el limbo legal September 21, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: En Español Un reciente fallo judicial se ha convertido en otra curva de una “montaña rusa” para cientos de miles de personas que llegaron a Estados Unidos cuando eran niños sin permiso legal, dijo una experta en inmigración.
‘What’s going to happen?’: DACA ruling keeps ‘Dreamers’ in immigration limbo September 21, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A recent court ruling has become another bend in a “rollercoaster” ride for hundreds of thousands of individuals who arrived in the U.S. as children without legal permission, said an immigration expert.
Former Soviet political prisoners urge Jewish and Ukrainian unity amid WWII memorial row September 21, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News Former Soviet political prisoners have pointed to “a common enemy,” one intent on undermining the cause of Ukrainian-Jewish understanding they worked to achieve, in a recent controversy over a World War II memorial in a Ukrainian Catholic cemetery near Philadelphia.
Catholic high school teacher fired for covering up previous employment, sex services charges September 21, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, World News A Catholic high school in Kentucky has fired a teacher who had failed to disclose previous charges of soliciting prostitution while employed at another Catholic school.
Russian drones destroy Caritas warehouse in overnight Ukraine attack, killing one September 19, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News A Russian aerial attack on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has killed one and destroyed a warehouse belonging to Caritas-Spes, the Roman Catholic mission of Caritas in Ukraine.
Sietz: Jesus compels us to ‘respond with charity,’ address ‘coercive forces’ driving migrants September 17, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News As the Catholic Church in the U.S. marks National Migration Week Sept. 18-24, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, highlighted the need to “address the coercive forces driving people to migrate.”
Ukrainian Catholic archbishop temporarily covers controversial WWII war dead memorial September 14, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia has temporarily enclosed a monument to Ukrainian war dead at one of its cemeteries as it seeks “open, scholarly and compassionate dialogue” with Jewish organizations that have expressed concern over this particular memorial and the complex history behind it.
New Mexico public health order’s gun ban not ‘a threat to Constitution,’ says archbishop September 12, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News A New Mexico archbishop said the state’s temporary ban on openly carrying firearms in and around Albuquerque is not “a threat to the Constitution.”
Surviving 9/11 attacks left ‘no questions about the reality of God,’ says deacon September 11, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: 9/11, Feature, News, World News The four attacks spanning some 77 minutes would kill 2,977 people that day. They would not be the only victims of those Sept. 11 attacks. More than 4,600 first responders and survivors have since died from cancers and other ailments incurred by toxic dust, fumes and fibers from the debris; thousands more continue to suffer.
Across the nation, aborted children will be remembered and mourned September 8, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children takes place Sept. 9, with services and gatherings at some 225 locations across the country. About 56 of those locations are gravesites for the remains of aborted children, while the majority are memorials.
