Analysis: Quietly, without flashiness, a disarming Pope Leo strives toward unity May 14, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News One thing seemed clear from the moment Pope Leo stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica: He was not another Pope Francis — or another Pope Benedict XVI or St. John Paul II. He intended to do things his own way.
Besides Leo XIII, 12 other popes have shared that name with new pontiff; 5 are saints May 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Aside from Leo XIII, himself not canonized, there have been 12 others who share a name with the new pope, and five of those predecessors attained the heights of sanctity and have been proclaimed saints.
Masses of mourning or papal auditions? May 6, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Commentary Those wielding power in these days should not be able to use official days of mourning to try to shape a conclave, especially if it’s true that the conclave is to be exercised in freedom and open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Top contenders for papacy after Pope Francis at a glance April 25, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News The pre-conclave gatherings give an opportunity for cardinals to emerge as possible papal candidates as the cardinals discuss the issues facing the church and qualities desired in the next pope. The following figures are potential contenders to become the 267th successor of St. Peter.
A Eucharistic Word: Habit April 17, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist As any parent will understand, praying well at Mass with three children is not easy — or sometimes, even possible.
St. Joseph: A patron for us all March 14, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Saints In addition to his patronage of the church and a happy death, St. Joseph is patron of nearly a dozen countries. He also is patron of the sick, fathers and husbands, and workers, among others.
A Eucharistic Word: Embodied February 19, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist Much of our “practice” of Catholicism is cooperating with God’s grace so that the Word is made flesh in us.
A Eucharistic Word: Holiness January 18, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Saints Truly in the Eucharist, as the saints came to know, we find the answer to our searching, the satisfaction to our yearning, the meaning of it all.
Cardinal O’Malley devotes decades to making ‘present the merciful face of God’ December 26, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Retirement, Vocations, World News Cardinal O’Malley, who was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin on Aug. 29, 1970, at the age of 26, has been a key figure at the highest levels of church governance in helping oversee reforms in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
A eucharistic Word: Christmas December 19, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary Keeping Christ in Christmas, or in any other day for that matter, is really the challenge of a eucharistic lifestyle. Our words are meaningless and empty when they are not upheld by our personal conformity in all we think, say and do.
A Eucharistic Word: Waiting November 21, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist The Eucharist, as the source and summit of Christian life, has much to teach us about waiting.
USCCB President: Living the virtues, listening and dialogue are vital to church, society November 14, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrapped up its fall plenary assembly’s final public session Nov. 13 in Baltimore, in which the bishops discussed topics ranging from the recent election, to synodality, to care for the environment, to life issues, including abortion and immigration.
