Pro-life groups welcome British cardinal’s attack on ‘irresponsible’ assisted suicide bill February 8, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News Pro-life groups welcomed comments by the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales bitterly criticizing attempts by government-aligned parliamentarians to rush through a bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide.
Bishops across Europe remember Holocaust victims, urge world to fight rising antisemitism January 27, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Religious Freedom, World News Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to remember German Nazi-inflicted sufferings and to counter a new rise in antisemitism and extremism.
Poland’s church deplores government curbs on religious teaching, with lessons cut in half January 26, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Poland’s Catholic primate has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of pandering to anti-church feeling, after it unveiled new plans to downgrade religious teaching in the traditionally Catholic country.
European Catholics take stock of year’s mixed progress on life issues December 29, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News When British parliamentarians approved a law to allow physician-assisted suicide on Nov. 29, it followed a year of legislative inroads against Catholic social teaching across Europe.
Polish Catholics welcome new Warsaw archbishop’s ‘synodal commitment’ December 13, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News When a new archbishop takes charge of Poland’s key Warsaw Archdiocese Dec. 14, his progress will be watched closely by those favoring change in the country’s Catholic Church.
Churches, faith groups join forces in Britain against ‘deceptive’ assisted suicide bill November 25, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Churches and faith groups across the United Kingdom have condemned a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide and stepped up efforts to block its Nov. 29 approval by parliamentarians.
Catholic priests face new pressures after nuncio departs Belarus November 25, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vocations, World News Clergy in Belarus are deleting their social media profiles to avoid arrest, according to church sources, as local parishes face pressure under a new religious law.
British Catholics react to Anglican archbishop’s shock resignation November 13, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News Leading British Catholics have urged their church to avoid involvement in the resignation of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, who quit Nov. 12 after being implicated in a large-scale abuse cover-up.
As Poles remember murdered priest, Catholic researchers’ work on communism’s martyrs continues November 1, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News In late October, while thousands gathered across the Polish capital to commemorate the 1984 kidnapping and brutal murder of Solidarity chaplain Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, patient work continued at the Jesuit order’s archive in Warsaw to document the fate of other communist-era victims.
British Catholics welcome cardinal appointment for Dominican who is UK’s best known preacher October 20, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, World News British Catholics have welcomed the appointment of Father Timothy Radcliffe, their country’s best known Dominican preacher, as a cardinal, predicting it will raise their church’s profile at home and abroad.
Poland’s church remembers its heroic ‘Solidarity Martyr’ — Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko October 18, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News As 40 years have passed since the murder of Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko, one of their church’s most famous priests, Polish Catholics are urging people everywhere to revisit and learn from his heroic testimony.
Head of Sacred Heart order appeals to Polish authorities to respect dignity of arrested priest September 12, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News As the superior general of the Sacred Heart order appealed to Polish authorities to ensure an arrested Polish priest’s “dignity” is “respected,” defenders have accused the country’s government of using Father Michal Olszewski as a political prisoner and urged the Catholic Church to speak up on his behalf.
