Aparecida shrine celebrates completion of Rupnik-designed western facade September 21, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News While France’s Lourdes shrine moves to cover mosaics by Father Marko Rupnik, Brazil’s National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in São Paulo celebrated new installations by the artist, who faces decades of allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse.
Pope grants Jubilee Year for Guadalupe Basilica anniversary September 15, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Archdiocese of Mexico City announced that Pope Leo XIV has declared a Jubilee Year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
2 decades after Regensburg, Church leaders say Pope Benedict’s speech was misinterpreted but prophetic September 14, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Of all the discourses he delivered in his nearly eight-year pontificate — with the exception of his 2013 resignation — Pope Benedict XVI’s Sept. 12, 2006, address at the University of Regensburg sparked unprecedented global reaction.
Mozambique bishops say questions remain unanswered 3 months after bishop’s murder September 11, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The bishops’ conference of Mozambique said it has yet to receive any details on the murder of Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of Quelimane, who was shot dead in his residence in June.
German archbishop says US-Mexico border wall recalls Berlin Wall, warns against loss of humanity September 8, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Touring the U.S.–Mexico border between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg said the towering fortifications and razor wire dividing the two border communities evoked a painful memory in his own country’s history: the Berlin Wall.
Pope Leo expresses hope Ukraine, Russia negotiations bear fruit September 7, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Leo XIV once again appealed for peace in Ukraine and prayed that U.S.-led negotiation efforts would finally bring an end to the death and destruction caused by the conflict now in its fourth year.
A long-awaited reckoning: A timeline of the Father Marko Rupnik case September 3, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News For over three decades, the allegations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik were met with cover-ups and bureaucratic delays.
Gaza school reopening is a reminder that ‘hope is stronger than fear,’ bishop says September 1, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News As children worldwide head back to classrooms this fall, students in Gaza are returning to a vastly different reality as the school at Holy Family Parish reopens for the first time since the start of Israel’s military campaign.
Nunciature: No papal event for Paris Rupnik chapel; bishop confirms pope ordered Vatican News Rupnik ban September 1, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The apostolic nunciature in Paris confirmed to OSV News Aug. 31 that no papal celebration is scheduled in the Father Marko Rupnik mosaic-decorated chapel inside its Paris building during the apostolic trip to France Sept. 25-28.
Prayer, social justice are inseparable, pope tells the Society of St. Vincent de Paul August 28, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV encouraged members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to follow the example of its namesake by giving witness to their faith through serving the poor.
Pope prays for dead, missing following catastrophic mudslides, floods in Nepal August 27, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV expressed his sadness by the devastation wrought by a glacial collapse in the Nepal-China border, causing a deadly wave of floods and mudslides that killed 168 people with hundreds more feared dead.
‘Let us be clear: this war must end,’ Archbishop Gallagher tells Russian authorities in Moscow August 26, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News The Vatican foreign minister urged Russian officials to end their war with Ukraine and to begin negotiations with the help of the international community.
