Vying for Leo November 19, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Six months into his papacy, as Pope Leo’s activities have increased, so has the scrutiny observing his every move. We parse every word, every audience, every movement, and in so doing, we betray our fractured existence.
Outgoing USCCB president on leadership, Eucharistic revival and the American pope November 13, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, World News OSV News, which interviewed Archbishop Broglio every fall during his presidential tenure, sat down with him one last time Nov. 12 before he exited the role officially at the conclusion of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Nov. 10-13 plenary assembly.
New USCCB president Coakley talks immigration, Vigano criticism, lifting up saints November 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected as the next president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He succeeds Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who has served in that office since 2022, at the end of the bishops’ Nov. 10-13 fall plenary.
U.S. bishops advance new sainthood cause for ‘Good Samaritan’ Jesuit priest November 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Saints, World News The U.S. bishops voted overwhelmingly Nov. 11 to support the advancement of a canonization cause for Jesuit Father Richard Thomas.
Understanding and planning Catholic funerals October 25, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Worship & Sacraments Catholic funerals express the Christian hope in eternal life and the resurrection of the body on the last day. Every component of Catholic funeral rites should express these fundamental beliefs and hopes.
Leo’s first official text October 17, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican “Dilexi Te” manifests both Pope Leo’s recognition that we need to grow in unity and subtly illustrates a means to bring such unity to a fractured church, something he has spoken of from the earliest days of his pontificate.
The life of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, 130 years after his birth October 15, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Evangelization, Saints Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. Once dubbed “God’s microphone,” Sheen announced God’s truth in a nonconfrontational, yet no less life-giving, manner to untold millions through radio, print and television.
‘Dilexi Te’ defined by charity, continuity and unity October 9, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Described as an exercise in “continuity” with Pope Francis, the apostolic exhortation is an ode to the 265th Successor of Peter while at the same time a further indicator of the priorities of the 266th.
How might Archbishop Iannone, new prefect for the Dicastery for Bishops, shape the role? September 30, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican The biggest indicator of how Pope Leo might govern the church so far can be found in the Sept. 26 appointment of Archbishop Filippo Iannone as then-Cardinal Prevost’s successor as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.
Timely reflections on holiness September 18, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints Each of the stories of the saints, as Leo put it, all started when “they said ‘yes’ to God and gave themselves to him completely, keeping nothing for themselves.”
Revealing Leo August 21, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican As certain factions of the church who want to claim Leo for their “side” become increasingly anxious to see him start taking more decisive action on thorny issues, it’s clear that what we know most about him is that he is a disciple of Jesus Christ.
Our Lady of the Snows: An unlikely patron in August August 2, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marian Devotion The optional memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major, celebrated on Aug. 5, recalls the importance of Mary in the life of the church. But it also calls to mind the Marian title of “Our Lady of the Snows.”
