For 3-year National Eucharistic Revival, the end is the beginning June 18, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The National Eucharistic Revival is formally slated to end June 22, this year’s feast of Corpus Christi. But, the three-year initiative — which included last year’s 10th National Eucharistic Congress and the 2024 and 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimages — laid the groundwork for more efforts to come, its leaders say.
Texas prisoners’ witness of faith makes prison visit ‘a highlight’ of eucharistic pilgrimage June 13, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News The eight young adults traveling the full route of this year’s National Eucharistic Pilgrimage had expected to witness their faith to inmates of James Lynaugh Prison Unit near Fort Stockton, Texas, during their June 9 visit.
National pilgrimage leaders urge large procession turnouts to counter anti-Catholic protesters June 3, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News Catholics are encouraged to turn out in strong numbers for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s eucharistic processions to counter the growing number of anti-Catholic protesters who have afflicted the route’s public events from the first week.
National pilgrimage carries the Eucharist to Midwest cathedrals and along cow fields May 30, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News The pilgrims’ 10-state route includes daily stops at parishes and other Catholic institutions for Mass, Eucharistic adoration, service and fellowship.
Who are the Augustinians, Pope Leo XIV’s order? May 13, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The first American pope has spoken in the past with affection about the fifth-century convert, bishop and intellectual powerhouse considered the father of his religious order, the Order of St. Augustine.
Midwest Augustinians celebrate in Pope Leo XIV a brother ‘rooted in the spirit of St. Augustine’ May 9, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The head of the Midwestern Augustinian province that Pope Leo XIV once led called the new pope’s election “moment of profound significance — not only as the first pope from the United States, but also as the first Augustinian to be elected pontiff.”
First American pope: White Sox fan, Villanova grad, Peru missionary, Vatican leader May 9, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo, 69, formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, is the first pope from the United States. He assumes the chair of Peter with multifaceted leadership experience: He grew up in the Midwest, graduated from Augustinian-run Villanova University in 1977 with a math degree, ministered as a bishop in Peru, and led the Vatican dicastery that helps appoint, form and retire bishops.
U.S. Catholics recall personal encounters with Pope Francis and his compassion April 23, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Remembering Pope Francis, World News The Keatings were among many Catholics in the U.S. who shared tributes in the hours after Pope Francis’ death from a stroke and heart failure, after struggling to overcome a respiratory illness that led to a five-week hospitalization in February and March.
‘Pope of the people’: Catholic leaders recall Pope Francis as champion of mercy, love April 21, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News Calling Pope Francis “a modern-day prophet,” Kerry Alys Robinson said the late pope “read the signs of the times and awakened us to meaningful change in our behavior — within the Church and within the world.”
U.S. bishops honor Pope Francis’ legacy in hours after his death April 21, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, “will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church and of society,” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a statement shared in the first hours after the pope’s death.
Americans going to Acutis canonization inspired by relatable teen’s love for Eucharist April 20, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News The Glamuzinas are among the multitude of Americans planning to attend the canonization of the church’s first “millennial” saint. The canonization Mass, scheduled to be held in St. Peter’s Square, coincides with Divine Mercy Sunday and the 2025 Holy Year’s Jubilee of Teenagers April 25-27.
‘The heart is where things are pulled together’: Bishop Flores on pope’s latest encyclical April 14, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, World News The heart is where a person can integrate his or her life amid a fragmented world, and the source of a heart’s mending and life is “the mystery of the heart of Christ,” said Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, while speaking April 9 about Pope Francis’ most recent encyclical, “Dilexit Nos,” or “He loved us.”
