Beatification cause for Minnesota Benedictine sister opens August 23, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, News, Saints, World News The beatification cause for Sister Annella Zervas, a Benedictine sister from Minnesota, will formally begin this fall, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., announced Aug. 20.
Analysis: At 100 days, Pope Leo’s papacy rooted in St. Augustine, reflection, unity August 16, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, World News As the calendar marks 100 days of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy Aug. 16, experts are scrutinizing his words and actions in hopes of pinpointing his leadership style, priorities and vision for the church’s future.
When it comes to serving students with disabilities, how are Catholic schools doing? July 19, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, News, Schools, World News Catholic experts argue, Catholic schools may be the best place for children with special needs, because they root each child’s identity not in achievement, but in being a child of God. But that attitude alone does not erase real hurdles, they acknowledge.
French woman hopes sharing mystical encounter with Minnesota Benedictine helps sainthood cause July 10, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News And to her amazement, Sister Annella, Souilliart claims, appeared at her open bedroom door. Dressed in a traditional Benedictine habit, with her black veil and well-waxed shoes, the religious sister approached Souilliart.
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.
