No white smoke, lay voters and say of king — how Anglican leader is elected November 14, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News There will be no white smoke nor a first blessing from the balcony. The election of the new leader of the world’s 85 million Anglicans won’t be similar to the Roman Catholic conclave, but King Charles III will have his say.
Retired Archbishop Keleher of Kansas City, Kan., dies at age 93 November 14, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Obituaries, World News Retired Archbishop James P. Keleher of Kansas City died of natural causes in his home at the Santa Marta Retirement Community in Olathe Nov. 9. He was 93.
Ousted Texas bishop attacks Pope Francis, accuses U.S. bishops of silence amid ‘false messages’ November 13, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, whom Pope Francis removed from pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, in 2023, read an open letter Nov. 13 in Baltimore asking “what it will take for more than a few bishops to finally speak up against the false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican under the leadership of Pope Francis?”
U.S. bishops approve new ‘mission directive’ to guide conference work November 13, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted Nov. 13 in Baltimore to approve a new “mission directive” for 2025-28, a new way that the conference is presenting its strategic vision for the next four years.
U.S. bishops to consider creating task force for synodal implementation November 13, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The discussion on the floor in Baltimore followed reflections on the recent Synod of Bishops on synodality held in Rome offered by Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, two of the bishop-delegates from the United States.
U.S. bishops elect Archbishop Hebda as treasurer-elect, five new committee chairs November 12, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, Uncategorized, World News Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis was elected treasurer of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 12 in Baltimore, bringing valuable experience from his own archdiocese to the conference post.
Head of Anglican Communion resigns over failures in dealing with ‘abhorrent’ abuse case November 12, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, resigned Nov. 12 due to failures in dealing with a British abuse case.
Nuncio, USCCB president reflect on Eucharistic congress, synodality, duty to proclaim Gospel November 12, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The public session of the fall plenary assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened Nov. 12 with remarks from Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, USCCB president, and Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio to the U.S.
El presidente de la USCCB llama a la oración y a la unidad tras las elecciones November 6, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: En Español El presidente de la Conferencia de los Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos (USCCB) hizo un llamado a la oración y a la unidad, tras las elecciones generales de la nación que vieron al candidato republicano y ex presidente Donald Trump derrotar a la candidata demócrata y actual vicepresidenta Kamala Harris para ganar otro mandato como presidente.
U.S. bishops’ conference president calls for prayer, unity following the 2024 election November 6, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Bishops, Feature, News, World News The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling for prayer and unity, following the nation’s general election that saw Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump defeat Democratic nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris to win another term as president.
Catholic nun among 10 killed in Indonesian volcano eruption November 5, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News At least 10 people, including a Catholic nun, have been killed in a volcanic eruption on Indonesia’s predominantly Catholic Flores Island.
Can voter lobbying groups use ‘Catholic’ in their names? Bishops may have to decide November 5, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News The appropriation of the word “Catholic” may exploit what one canon law scholar described to OSV News as a “blind spot” in canon law, the Catholic Church’s principal legislative code.
