‘We are not alone, abandoned or afraid,’ patriarch of Jerusalem says on Palm Sunday March 25, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News When Christians gathered in Jerusalem to remember Jesus’ entry into the city, it was one of a few joyful moments in the Holy Land, “crushed by so much hatred” in the months following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Poland marks 80 years since Ulma family’s death, sees ‘beautiful graces received’ through them March 24, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News As Poles commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of Blessed Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with their seven children, the world, six months into their beatification, is stunned to learn about the martyrs from the village of Markowa, who are already working little miracles in peoples’ lives.
As war enters third year, Ukrainians helped by church number in millions February 29, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Entering the third year of war several church institutions wrapped their aid effort in “two years of war” reports, showing that millions of people have been saved thanks to the Catholic Church.
As season four premieres around world, ‘The Chosen’ actors talk faith, life struggles January 31, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Five years since the premiere of the first season, the series about the life of Jesus of Nazareth is now garnering over 770 million views of its episodes and has more than 12 million social media followers.
‘Jesus, you take over,’ papal envoy cried out in Bethlehem amid wartime Christmas celebrations December 27, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Christmas, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Christmas in Bethlehem was celebratory but not as festive as usual this year, given the outbreak of war in the Holy Land two-and-a-half months ago.
Papal almoner will spend Christmas in the Holy Land in a ‘journey of closeness’ December 22, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Charity, landed in Israel on Dec. 22, starting a “journey of closeness” as papal envoy to the Holy Land during a difficult wartime Christmas season.
Cardinal ‘ashamed’ after lawmaker puts out Hanukkah candles in Poland’s parliament December 13, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz, chairman of the Committee for Dialogue with Judaism of the Polish bishops’ conference, strongly condemned the incident in which a far-right Polish lawmaker used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the Sejm, the country’s parliament.
Special guests at dinner under Bernini’s colonnade — the homeless December 12, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News For the first time in history, 150 homeless people had a festive meal, served by Italian journalists and their families, under the famous baroque Bernini’s colonnade in St. Peter’s Square.
‘When you love the poor, you know their needs,’ papal almoner says November 18, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Vatican, World News Pope Francis will celebrate the World Day of the Poor for the seventh time on Nov. 19. The 2023 World Day of the Poor will be traditionally hosted by the Dicastery for the Service of Charity.
It was never about her, but about Jesus, says producer of Mother Teresa film November 3, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews James Wahlberg, once a convict, is now a film producer and has created a documentary about Mother Teresa that recently premiered in another country — Poland.
St. John Paul II was greatest vocation recruiter in church’s history, says his biographer October 21, 2023By Paulina Guzik Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Papal biographer George Weigel said that people often remember the enthusiasm of the papacy of St. John Paul II, but forget about the state of the church when he was elected.
Russia’s goal is to destroy population in Ukraine, Lviv bishop says after drone attack September 21, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News “It destroyed a year and a half worth of work,” Auxiliary Bishop Edward Kawa of Lviv said about a Russian aerial attack on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv that has killed one and destroyed a warehouse belonging to Caritas-Spes, the Roman Catholic mission of Caritas in Ukraine, in the early morning hours of Sept. 19.
