USCCB president calls for continued prayer in world where ‘peace seems so far away’ November 14, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Crisis in Israel, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2023 The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 14 urged his brother bishops gathered in Baltimore and all the Catholic faithful to “continue to pray” when “peace seems so far away” in today’s world.
Washington exhibit on Rome’s pilgrim churches showcases pilgrimage history October 7, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Bible, Feature, News, World News A map from 1575 is part of a current exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington and is among Jeff Kolha’s favorite prints on display in the exhibit “A Journey of Faith: The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome” in the museum’s Vatican gallery.
‘I forgive you. I pray for you,’ Florida inmate says in final statement before execution October 6, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Before he became Florida’s sixth inmate to be executed in the state this year, convicted murderer Michael Duane Zack concluded his final statement Oct. 3 with a message: “To Governor DeSantis and the Clemency Board: I love you. I forgive you. I pray for you.” Zack, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. by lethal […]
Holy See urges more nations to sign on to convention banning cluster munitions September 13, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, News, Vatican, World News A Holy See delegation at a Sept. 11-14 meeting of nations that are parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions urged nations that have not yet done so to sign the treaty, which “prohibits under any circumstances the use, development, production, acquisition, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions.”
USCCB argues protecting innocent life must be priority in gun rights case before high court August 25, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Supreme Court, World News Protecting the innocent “is a proper consideration” in the government regulation of firearms, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case over whether the government can prohibit a person with a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm.
Maryland court rules religious exemption bars discrimination claim against CRS August 17, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Religious Freedom The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Aug. 14 that the religious exemption in the state’s Fair Employment Practices Act “bars claims (of) religious, sexual orientation, and gender identity discrimination against religious organizations by employees who perform duties that directly further the core mission(s) of the religious entity.”
Biden vows to push Congress to codify Roe, while pro-lifers celebrate first anniversary of Dobbs June 26, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News In a statement to mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, President Joe Biden said June 24 that his administration “will continue to protect access to reproductive health care and call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law once and for all.”
Rev. Pat Robertson will be remembered for broadcasting Gospel message to millions, bishop says June 15, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Obituaries, World News The late Rev. Pat Robertson’s work “in the area of bringing the Gospel message to millions where they are, through modern technology and communications” will “forever be regarded and remembered,” Bishop Barry C. Knestout said in a statement about the passing of the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Barb Fraze, former CNS international editor, wins 2023 St. Francis de Sales Award at conference in Baltimore June 12, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, Local News, News Barb Fraze, former international editor for Catholic News Service, is the recipient of the 2023 St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Media Association.
Mass celebrated in memory of mariners lost at sea, other seafarers and their families May 23, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News In anticipation of the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Mariners and People of the Sea, Bishop Brendan J. Cahill of Victoria, Texas, celebrated Mass in Washington to remember seafarers who have lost their lives at sea and to pray for all who work the sea and their families.
Make Jesus’ ‘Gospel friendship’ the heart of Catholic social ministry, says Baltimore’s Bishop Lewandowski January 30, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice Auxiliary Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski of Baltimore recalled in a homily Jan. 28 the kind of greeting he would always receive from a Puerto Rican woman who was a member of the parish he pastored in Philadelphia’s Kensington section, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Trial of pro-life activist charged with violating federal FACE Act gets underway January 26, 2023By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News A Catholic pro-life advocate is on trial for allegedly violating a federal law that protects access to abortion clinics, and the lead lawyer defending him said the charges against his client are being pursued “solely to intimidate people of faith and pro-life Americans.”
