Here are 10 things to know about the upcoming Jubilee Year.
10 things to know about Jubilee 2025, the Holy Year that begins Dec. 24
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8 ways to celebrate Jubilee 2025 without leaving your diocese
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While numerous events are planned in Rome and at the Vatican to mark the Jubilee 2025, this Holy Year is for the whole church. Here are some ways to celebrate without traveling farther than your local cathedral.
Vatican suppresses Texas monastery after Carmelite order dismissed its nuns
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The Holy See has suppressed the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, a month after its residents were dismissed from the Carmelite order and religious life.
Sainthood causes for Benedictine sister and disabilities education advocate get U.S. bishops’ approval
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During their fall plenary assembly in Baltimore, the U.S. bishops voted 206 to 7, with 11 abstentions, to support the local advancement of Sister Annella’s cause, and 205 to 6, with 19 abstentions, to support the same for Gertrude Barber’s cause.
Why Notre Dame Cathedral captures hearts and minds worldwide
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PARIS (OSV News) — In a side chapel not far from the relics of Paris’ patroness St. Genevieve in the Church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, an easel holds a simple poster requesting prayers under the title “Notre Dame de Paris.” “Let us pray for the people of Paris,” it reads. “Let us pray for the Paris archbishop, […]
Texas nuns dismiss their removal from Carmelite order, religious life as ‘moot’
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Members of a women’s religious community in Arlington, Texas, have been dismissed from the Carmelite order and Catholic religious life, according to Oct. 28 statements from Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth and Mother Marie of the Incarnation, whom a Vatican office appointed as the community’s major superior in April.
Men grieve ‘shared suffering’ miscarriage differently than women, but can be overlooked
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How miscarriage affects fathers and how that affects their relationships is an often overlooked aspect of this ministry’s developing landscape, several experts told OSV News.
Hot-button issues raised by Vatican synod called ‘a mechanism’ to understand synodal method
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The goal of the second and final meeting of the Synod on Synodality underway at the Vatican is understanding and exercising synodality in the church, rather than immediately resolving specific issues, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ synodality expert said.
Seven things to know about the second and final session of the Synod on Synodality
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The second meeting of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops begins Oct. 2 at the Vatican.
CEO says National Eucharistic Congress, pilgrimage show Catholics ‘are ready to make history’
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In the afterglow of July’s 10th National Eucharistic Congress, Jason Shanks senses that there’s a new “way of evangelization” emerging — or reemerging — among Catholics in the United States.
Texas bishop pleads with faithful not to worship with, support Carmelite nuns affiliated with SSPX
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A Texas bishop is urging Catholics in his diocese not to participate in sacraments with, or financially support, a community of Discalced Carmelite nuns who recently announced a formal association with the Society of St. Pius X.
Flash flooding temporarily closes Lourdes’ grotto
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River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France.
