New York’s highest court hears Catholic-led challenge to state abortion mandate April 18, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News The fight by religious groups against New York state’s abortion mandate — requiring most private insurance plans to cover abortion — went to the state’s highest court April 16.
‘Irena’s Vow,’ Heroism in the Face of Evil April 11, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews The movie is based on the real-life experiences of Catholic nurse Irene Gut Opdyke (1918-2003). Famed for her rescue of Jews, Opdyke was named Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust Commission.
Life on farm named for Dorothy Day helps Catholic couple deepen faith, ‘glorify God’ April 1, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News Carmina Chapp, a Catholic theologian with degrees from Providence College and Duquesne University, is the founder of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm near the borough of Harveys Lake, Pa., near Scranton.
Movie Review: ‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’ March 21, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews An old movie trope is spun into a satiric fantasy with middling results in “The American Society of Magical Negroes” (Focus).
Documentary covers FBI file kept on Archbishop Sheen March 14, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, Saints Nearly 75 years after he stopped teaching at The Catholic University of America in Washington, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) can still fill a campus auditorium.
In fight to end human trafficking, educating migrants about risks they face called ‘essential’ March 9, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Social Justice, World News Ask women religious leaders on the front lines of the fight against human trafficking and the exploitation of cheap migrant labor, and you hear less about government programs and more about educating the migrants.
What is love? U.S. bishops’ new initiative offers ‘clarity’ for the culture’s questions February 27, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News “Love Means More,” a new teaching initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has a statement of purpose, a website and a promise to keep building the website to provide answers on a wide variety of questions about Catholic teaching on love, sexuality and marriage.
Catholic parents ask high court to correct ‘dangerous precedent’ on parental rights, trans identity February 20, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News The case began as one family’s dispute over gender identity, and involved a state social service agency and the removal of the child. But any decision on the petition submitted to the high court Feb. 15 won’t result in the teen — named in court filings as A.C. and identifying as a transgender woman — being returned to the family home.
Speakers: Catholics must make connection between Eucharist, church’s social teaching February 16, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News Although the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that “the Eucharist commits us to the poor,” many still don’t make this connection between the sacrament that is the “source and summit of the Christian life” and Catholic social teaching.
Lawmakers demand investigation, autopsies of 5 aborted babies rescued by jailed Catholic activist February 15, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News In a stunning development for Catholic pro-life activist Lauren Handy, the scheduled destruction of five unborn babies’ corpses she recovered from a Washington abortion clinic in 2022 has been indefinitely delayed with the expectation they will finally be autopsied.
Movie Review: ‘Madame Web’ February 15, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews As origin stories for Marvel Cinematic Universe characters go, “Madame Web” (Sony) is notable for being particularly abrasive, sour and gloomy. That’s surprising given that this fourth film in the Spider-Man series is meant to be something of a conversion story.
Jailed Catholic activist’s attorney calls for Congress to investigate 5 aborted babies’ fate February 12, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Lawyers for Catholic pro-life activist Lauren Handy, who is facing a lengthy prison term for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, are seeking to halt the destruction of the bodies of five unborn babies that Handy recovered from a Washington abortion clinic in 2022.
