Apostolate addresses often overlooked grief from pregnancy, infant loss September 29, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News According to the National Library of Medicine, an estimated 26 percent of all pregnancies, and up to 10 percent of clinically recognized pregnancies, end in miscarriage, the loss of pregnancy less than 20-weeks gestation.
Texas Carmelites may be excommunicated after public letter rejecting Bishop Olson’s authority August 20, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A community of cloistered Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, said they no longer recognize the authority of Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, claiming that he has interfered with and humiliated them since initiating an investigation into their prioress in late April.
Letters reveal disgraced Alabama priest believes he is married to 18-year-old and their running away is ‘Jesus’ will’ August 18, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News An Alabama priest disgraced after abandoning his parish to travel to Italy with an 18-year-old woman described himself as “married” to her in a Valentine’s Day letter.
Synod document’s hundreds of questions are its strength, U.S. leaders say June 23, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News The Holy See released the “Instrumentum Laboris” June 20 to guide preparation for the upcoming “2021-2024 Synod: For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission,” also known as the Synod on Synodality.
At Baltimore conference, Bishop Cozzens says magnifying ‘stories of encounter’ ignites hearts for Jesus, missionary action June 13, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Journalism, News, World News Speaking at the Catholic Media Association’s June 6-9 annual gathering in Baltimore, Bishop Cozzens asked Catholic communications professionals to support the National Eucharistic Revival underway through their own witness, and by magnifying “stories of encounter.”
Processions’ public witness expresses National Eucharistic Revival’s evangelistic vision, as movement begins parish year June 12, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Launched as an initiative of the U.S. Catholic bishops in June 2022, the National Eucharistic Revival is a three-year movement that aims to deepen Catholics’ love for Jesus through encountering him in the Eucharist.
Experts: Catholic media is essential to informing world about the church and the church about world June 10, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News At a time when Catholic media in the United States is at a crossroads, Catholic journalists must avoid reducing the church to merely a socio-political organization, instead keeping its role as the “sacrament of salvation” at the fore, said a panelist speaking on the future of Catholic journalism June 5.
Richmond bishop condemns deadly, ‘callous act’ of gun violence at graduation ceremony June 8, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News The June 6 shooting took place in a park outside a theater that hosted Huguenot High School’s graduation ceremony, two blocks from the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.
Head of bishops’ anti-racism committee praises investigations into racist histories May 31, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Ahead of the U.S. bishops’ meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 14-16, Bishop Joseph N. Perry said that new investigations by church institutions into their involvement with slavery and Indian boarding schools are “very healthy” and aid a collective examination of conscience.
Eucharistic Revival playbook offers direction, ideas for parish year May 11, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Parish leaders seeking guidance for the National Eucharistic Revival’s upcoming parish year now have a 24-page resource to assist their discernment.
‘Eye-opening experience’ the church needs is found in Eucharist, says U.S. apostolic nuncio May 1, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Eucharist, Feature, News, World News Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, said he is “convinced that the church today is in need of an eye-opening experience,” similar to the experience of the two disciples who encountered Jesus along the road to Emmaus following the Resurrection, but who did not recognize him until they shared a meal.
Choral project explores how major religions welcome immigrants, refugees October 21, 2022By Maria Wiering Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News After creating an interfaith choir to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the Vatican in 2018, the Together in Hope Project choir has a new choral project that explores major faiths’ traditions of welcoming the refugee, immigrant and outcast.
