Catholic groups underscore urgency of United Nations ‘Climate Ambition Summit’ September 22, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News The U.N. described the Climate Ambition Summit as “a broad global coalition of ‘movers and doers'” including “politicians, business and civil society” that represents a “critical political milestone for demonstrating that there is collective global will to accelerate the pace and scale of a just transition to a more equitable renewable-energy based, climate-resilient global economy.”
Expert reveals the challenge behind Mother Teresa’s ‘Gospel on five fingers’ September 18, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News For those who have never heard Mother Teresa’s famous “Gospel on five fingers,” simply imagine the petite and wizened founder of the Missionaries of Charity counting out these words on the digits of a hand — your hand: “You. Did. It. To. Me.”
New Norbertine abbeys reveal how these ‘apostles of the Eucharist’ are thriving in U.S. September 16, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The Norbertines — one of the oldest surviving religious orders in the Catholic Church, established in France in 1120 — are not only, in the words of their founder St. Norbert of Xanten, “prepared for every good work.”
California’s rising assisted suicide rate alarms Catholics September 10, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News When California in 2021 relaxed its physician-assisted death rules — easing access to the lethal means for residents to take their own lives — several lawmakers behind the change cited a desire to aid the terminally ill, invoking a sort of legislative altruism.
With evictions growing, housing situation for many Americans seen growing more precarious September 7, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News With coronavirus-era eviction protections expiring across the country and rent payment waivers not far behind, the already-precarious situation of many low-income Americans is about to get worse.
‘Oppenheimer’ gives Catholics opportunity to explain injustice of nuclear weapons August 18, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb which then led to the dropping of two such bombs over Japan in the twilight days of World War II.
Ordinariate Solemn Mass honors Newman’s legacy at national shrine in Washington August 8, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Saints, World News Clouds of incense billowed throughout the crypt as the priests in golden vestments celebrated Solemn Mass, according to “Divine Worship: The Missal”, which provides the form of the Mass for the Catholic Church’s personal ordinariates for the Anglican tradition.
As record heat scorches the globe, climate advocates urge Catholics to take action August 5, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News How do thermometer-bursting digits relate to wider concerns about climate change, a warming earth, and the call to action of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si'” — and can individual Catholics make a difference?
Global synod faces challenge of getting pastoral care to divorced Catholics in parishes July 28, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News The forthcoming 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops — otherwise known as the Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis convenes in Rome this October — will examine ways to accompany divorced and remarried Catholics.
Catholics in states affected by ever-shrinking Colorado River draw on ‘Laudato Si” to help avert water crisis June 20, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News Catholics in some of the affected states are complementing the government’s effort to prevent disaster with principles of Pope Francis’ landmark 2015 environmental encyclical “Laudato Si'” firmly in mind.
Economists, educators, Catholic leaders discuss what’s at stake in debt limit resolution for those most in need May 30, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: News, U.S. Congress, World News Details are still forthcoming and must be formalized into legislation for a Congressional vote — however, the prospect of a national default on the debts the nation has already incurred is potentially averted for the moment.
New ‘Mary, Explained’ video series helps Catholics discover, embrace Jesus’ mother as the ‘model disciple’ May 30, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News “Mary, Explained”, a new, seven-part video series from the Diocese of Arlington, Va., tackles this catechetical gap, offering an engaging refresher course in who the Blessed Mother is, what the church teaches about her, and why all Catholics should be close to her.
