‘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.”
Registration opens for 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage events in 10 states April 11, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, World News Public events for each leg of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage have been posted and registration for participation is open, event organizers announced April 10.
Monk Manual collaboration with CFRs fosters sensitivity to God’s voice April 5, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The journal, “Mysteries and Medicines,” was created in collaboration between the planning and journaling tool Monk Manual and the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, a religious order widely known by their Latin-based religious initials “CFR.” It shares its name with an album released in October by Brother Isaiah, a friar and popular Catholic musician.
Disgraced former cardinal McCarrick dies at 94 April 4, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Obituaries, World News The disgraced former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, removed from the clerical state in 2019 after revelations of credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors and misconduct against adults, has died in Missouri. He was 94.
Kansas pastor fatally shot; Archbishop Naumann prays for priest and perpetrator April 4, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, World News The pastor of a parish in Seneca, Kan., was shot in his rectory and later died of his injuries at a local hospital April 3.
St. John Paul II’s worldview spreads to new generations via camping, YouTube, travel March 30, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Saints, World News Camp Wojtyla is one of numerous Catholic organizations in the U.S. inspired by St. John Paul and his deep faith, intellect and cultural perception, and dedicated to his model of evangelization.
Australian sociologist: Church must tackle clergy sexual misconduct with adults March 29, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vocations, World News A possible 50 percent of priests are unchaste, a sociologist who studies clergy sexual abuse and misconduct told a webinar audience March 24.
Pilgrims look forward to bringing Eucharist across Southwest, including wildfire-recovering L.A. March 29, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Jubilee 2025, News, World News At the end of the congress, its chairman, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., announced another pilgrimage in summer 2025. It begins in Indianapolis May 18 and ends with Mass in Los Angeles on the feast of Corpus Christi June 22. It also coincides with the 2025 Jubilee Year.
Flannery O’Connor’s 100th birthday parties celebrate author’s quirks, talents — and love of birds March 20, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, News, Uncategorized, World News Long before Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at 207 E. Charlton St., her childhood home in Savannah.
