Egyptian Catholic clergy say interreligious ties are being derailed by ‘Fiducia’ March 13, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News Catholic clergy from Egypt have warned that ties with Orthodox and Islamic leaders are being derailed by a Vatican decision to allow the blessing of same-sex couples, after the country’s influential Coptic Orthodox Church suspended dialogue over the issue.
Russian Catholic join in mourning Navalny, urge fight continue for human rights March 4, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Prominent Russian Catholics have urged church members to continue condemning human rights violations after the funeral of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, despite warnings people who attended could face police reprisals.
Greece’s minority Catholic Church condemns parliament’s same-sex marriage vote February 22, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Greece’s minority Catholic Church has deplored a parliamentary vote to allow same-sex marriage and child adoption, the first in a predominantly Orthodox country.
Russian Catholics stage ‘quiet commemorations’ for deceased dissident Navalny February 20, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A senior Russian Catholic has urged church leaders abroad to commemorate the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, as armed police dispersed citizens mourning his death at age 47 in a remote prison camp.
Poland’s bishops pledge dialogue with new government; others see conflict ahead for church January 10, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Poland’s bishops have pledged dialogue with their country’s new liberal government, but leading Catholics warned that government plans for rapid secularizing change could spark conflict as the ruling coalition plans to limit religious classes in public schools and abolish the state Church Fund.
Ukraine’s war-torn Christians look ahead to first Christmas shared with West December 17, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News When Ukraine’s embattled citizens gather this Christmas, their rich festivities will feel symbolically different — as the festival is celebrated for the first time on Dec. 25, in line with the Western calendar.
Ukraine churches remember Moscow’s campaign of ‘death by hunger’ November 28, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Ukrainian church leaders have joined anniversary commemorations of the 1932-1933 Holodomor, or Great Famine, in which millions died in a disaster deliberately engineered by Soviet Union rulers.
Polish archbishop urges pope to resist German church demands November 16, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News The president of the Polish bishops’ conference has bitterly criticized demands for liberal change by the church in neighboring Germany and urged the pope not to allow them to dominate the Rome Synod on Synodality.
Norway Catholics welcome Nobel Prize for writer-convert October 16, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News Church leaders in Norway have welcomed the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Jon Fosse, a Catholic convert, predicting the honor could raise Catholicism’s profile in the traditionally Protestant country.
Participants in Synod on Synodality say they seek ‘new vision’ for church from assembly October 3, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News As Catholic delegates arrived in Rome from across the globe for the Synod of Bishops on Synodality Oct. 4-29 and continued their retreat ahead of the assembly, hopes were high that the upcoming discussions will set the church on a secure path for the future, despite today’s multiple competing perspectives and priorities.
C.S. Lewis’ work continues to gain popularity 60 years after his death September 24, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, Feature, News, World News When Clive Staples Lewis bought The Kilns, a former brick factory, in 1930, he used its quiet remoteness to produce a stream of literary and spiritual masterpieces that are still quoted with reverence today.
Bishops’ commission voices ‘deep concern’ over proposed EU ethics law September 19, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News A commission representing the European Union’s Catholic bishops has expressed “deep concern” over a draft EU law on the use of embryos, cells and “substances of human origin,” warning it could facilitate genetic and gender interference across the bloc’s 27 member-states.
