N.J. diocese, priests sue federal government over religious worker visa rule change August 19, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vocations, World News A New Jersey diocese and several priests are suing the federal government over a rule change in religious worker visas, in a case that highlights the perfect storm created by the nation’s shifting immigration policies and the Catholic Church in the United States’ increased reliance on foreign-born clergy amid a downward trend of domestic vocations to the priesthood.
Amid war, it’s ‘kind of business as usual’ in Jerusalem with ‘a certain fearfulness,’ priest says August 19, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News As the Israel-Hamas war edges toward the one-year mark, OSV News spoke with Jesuit Father John Paul, rector of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, ahead of his return to Israel following a brief visit to the U.S. in early August.
Catholic medical group welcomes plastic surgeons’ questions about gender surgeries for teens August 19, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News A group of Catholic medical professionals is hailing recent remarks by U.S. plastic surgeons questioning surgical interventions for teens experiencing gender dysphoria.
New review board chair: ‘We can’t be satisfied’ until there is zero abuse in church August 13, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News Retired FBI official James Bogner was recently named chair of the National Review Board, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ consultative safe environment body established in 2002 under the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” also known as the Dallas Charter.
Russian forces destroy Catholic church in Ukraine, as another parish prepares for attack August 13, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, War in Ukraine, World News Russian forces have destroyed another Ukrainian Greek Catholic church, while a priest at a separate parish is hastening to remove sacred items ahead of an expected Russian attack.
300 religious leaders call on State Department to address religious persecution in India August 10, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A Catholic bishop in Chicago from an Eastern church whose origins go back to St. Thomas the Apostle has joined some 300 faith leaders in sounding an alarm over religious persecution in India.
Supreme Knight summons a new generation of Catholic men: ‘Days of easy faith are over’ August 9, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News The “days of easy faith are over,” and a “new generation of Catholic men” are needed in the church, said the head of the Knights of Columbus at the global Catholic fraternal organization’s annual gathering.
Wester warns: ‘We are now in a nuclear arms race far more dangerous than the first’ August 7, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., has traveled to Japan on a “pilgrimage of peace” commemorating the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Retired FBI agent, clergy abuse survivor and social workers appointed to bishops’ National Review Board August 2, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Child & Youth Protection, News, World News A retired FBI agent will head up the U.S. bishops’ consultative safe environment body, while a clergy abuse survivor, a nursing professor and two clinical social workers are also among the board’s Aug. 1 appointments.
Bishops call for mental health, recovery resources amid New Mexico’s public safety crisis July 31, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News The Catholic bishops of New Mexico have issued a call to bolster mental health and addiction recovery resources, as violent incidents in that state have prompted Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to seek urgent legislative reform.
Gallup poll: Majority back birth control, IVF, but almost half see US morality as ‘poor’ July 30, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News New data shows most of the nation views birth control and in vitro fertilization as “morally acceptable,” while extramarital affairs and suicide are regarded as the most “morally wrong” of several behaviors — with close to half the nation regarding overall morality in the U.S. as “poor.”
Abuse suits filed against St. Louis archdiocese, naming Omaha archbishop, St. Louis priest July 30, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News Five civil lawsuits filed against the Archdiocese of St. Louis July 24 allege multiple incidents of sexual abuse of minors and long-standing coverups, with a Nebraska archbishop — then a St. Louis archdiocesan priest — included among the accused.
