Mourners pray for migrants killed in shipwreck off Italian coast; Greece’s worst train crash in history leaves many dead March 2, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Archbishop Angelo Raffaele Panzetta of Crotone-Santa Severina joined other faith leaders, local officials and members of the public March 1 in praying for migrants aboard a wooden boat who died in a Feb. 26 shipwreck off the southern Italian coast.
Sospechoso de la muerte a tiros del Obispo O’Connell de Los Ángeles es acusado de asesinato February 23, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: En Español El fiscal del condado de Los Ángeles, George Gascón, anunció el 22 de febrero que el sospechoso detenido por la muerte a tiros del obispo auxiliar de Los Ángeles, David G. O’Connell, ha sido acusado de asesinato.
Suspect in shooting death of LA Bishop O’Connell charged with murder February 23, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Feb. 22 that the suspect arrested in the shooting death of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell has been charged with murder.
Biden attends Ash Wednesday Mass celebrated in Warsaw hotel room by anti-communist priest February 22, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News Wrapping up his three-day visit to Poland Feb. 22, President Joe Biden attended Ash Wednesday Mass in his hotel room in Warsaw.
USCCB President praises Nicaraguans’ ‘courageous hope’ amid their country’s ‘dark hour’ February 22, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Amid the “dark hour” besetting Nicaragua — with the imprisonment of a bishop, the expulsion of over 200 political prisoners and ongoing human rights violations — Nicaraguans’ “courageous hope, charity and solidarity are bearing witness” to their enduring faith, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Citing finances, N.Y. Archdiocese to close 12 schools at end of academic year February 21, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, World News The Archdiocese of New York has announced that 12 of its Catholic schools will close at the end of the 2022-23 academic year and four others will be merged into two schools due to the schools’ financial outlook.
Registration opens Feb. 15 for 2024 National Eucharistic Congress February 14, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Registration for the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis July 17-21, 2024, will open Feb. 15 at 1 p.m.
Advocates say big events like Super Bowl are good time to raise awareness of human trafficking February 12, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Sports, World News The Feb. 12 Super Bowl, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m., “sadly serves as a danger zone for sex trafficking, labor trafficking and domestic violence,” said the executive director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring.
Catholic aid agencies launch emergency collections for quake victims in Turkey, Syria February 8, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Giving, News, World News Catholic humanitarian agencies are launching emergency relief campaigns following Feb. 6’s devastating earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, which have so far killed more than 7,200 and injured upward of 35,000.
U.S. bishops’ religious liberty chairman: Proposed new rules on contraceptive mandate ‘disheartening’ February 7, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News The U.S. bishops’ religious liberty chairman called it “disheartening” that proposed new rules on the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate eliminate “protections for moral convictions” of employers who object to being forced to cover contraceptives in their employee health plans.
Prioritize federal funds for families to embrace life, not abortion, says U.S. bishops’ pro-life chair February 2, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is “a modest but important step” to make the long-standing policy of preventing federal taxpayer funding of elective abortions permanent and government-wide, said the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee chairman.
Washington Auxiliary Bishop Dorsonville appointed to head diocese in Louisiana February 1, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Pope Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville of Washington to head the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana.
