Holocaust survivor honors Polish priest who aided his family January 27, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Because of the quiet and heroic intervention of a Polish priest, Andrew Jampoler’s life was saved just as it began. Jampoler, 83, feels a strong debt of gratitude to Father Jozef Czapran who protected him as an infant in Eastern Poland by providing lifesaving papers for him and his family.
Coming home to a community of faith at Naval Academy January 23, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News, Young Adult Ministry When Una Johnson arrived in the fall of 2023 at the Naval Academy in Annapolis from her home in Washington state, she was struck by the number of her classmates attending Catholic liturgies.
SEEK conference in D.C. features hope, healing and eucharistic encounter January 6, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, World News Thousands of college students, gathered in the nation’s capital Jan. 3 and pondered these questions as part of an evening of reflection and eucharistic adoration at the Fellowship of Catholic University Students’ 2025 SEEK conference.
In times of division, Our Lady of Guadalupe calls all to unity in Christ, bishops say December 12, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, News, World News At a time marked by division, several U.S. bishops wrote Dec. 11 that the patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, is “a powerful reminder that we are all called to be one in Christ Jesus, beginning from the moment of our conception.”
Surrendering emptiness in Advent December 12, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Books, Commentary Childish musings and wonder can give way to mystery as we get older and the idea of a young woman conceived without sin, bearing the son of God seems so far away from everyday life.
Bishops discuss immigration, abortion concerns ahead of incoming Trump administration December 11, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The church must continue to stand for the dignity of all human life under the incoming Trump administration. That was the message from Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, chair of the bishops’ migration committee, and Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, the bishops’ new pro-life committee chair, who both spoke with OSV News at the U.S. bishops’ November meeting.
‘The Chosen’ Season 5 coming Lent 2025; Last Supper scene grounded in Roumie’s Eucharistic devotion November 27, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News Beginning March 27, the fifth season of the hit series “The Chosen,” which focuses on the life of Jesus and his closest disciples, will hit theaters in the weeks leading up to Easter, which is April 20. The latest installment, “The Chosen: Last Supper” portrays the events of Holy Week.
St. Jude relic tour halted over ‘incident’ involving students, visiting priest November 25, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Saints, World News A tour of a relic of St. Jude conducted by Father Carlos Martins, a priest with the Companions of the Cross order known for hosting “The Exorcist Files” podcast, was halted Nov. 21 following an alleged “incident” involving students, according to a statement from Queen of Apostles Church in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois and from the diocese.
2024 Vatican document shaping USCCB resources on gender theory, love, human person November 16, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News Efforts to apply a 2024 Vatican document on human dignity to an American context and its “a radical emphasis on individual autonomy” are underway within three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Bishops hear update on plans to implement ministry of lay catechist set forth by pope November 14, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, updated his fellow bishops Nov. 13 in Baltimore on his committee’s plans to implement the ministry of the lay catechist, a ministry set forward by Pope Francis in his May 2021 apostolic letter “Antiquum Ministerium.”
Bishops stress standing for dignity of human life following presidential election November 13, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The Catholic Church “always insists on the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death, and we continue to insist on that,” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said Nov. 12.
Fear, trust and walking through the valley of the shadow of death November 13, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Reflecting on the people’s faith helped him to see that, for the Christian, death “means no more and no less than the end of our testing period here on earth; it is a return, a going home, to the God and Father who first created us. It is not the end of life; the fact of the resurrection proves that beyond a doubt.”
