‘They bomb, we sing’: Papal almoner visits flooded Kherson in sixth Ukraine trip June 28, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News After driving more than 1,900 miles, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, arrived in Kherson to show closeness to a community shattered by war and a devastating flood.
Papal envoy heads to Ukraine for sixth time to ‘assist those in need,’ put spotlight on suffering people June 22, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News While desperation mounts in Ukraine amid more than 480 days of war — and in the aftermath of the destruction of a dam that caused the flooding of dozens of towns in the south of the country — Cardinal Konrad Krajewski traveled to the country June 22 for the sixth time “to assist those in need.”
‘Adoration is like sunbathing — you let the sun shine on you, as you truly are,’ says cardinal May 10, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Monthly adoration has become a new normal for pilgrims visiting St. Peter’s Square. For Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, who led a monthly Vatican outdoor Holy Hour May 9, adoration is a crucial hour of any day.
Despite disability, young man directs film — in Lourdes, France May 4, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Movie & Television Reviews The young Polish student directed a documentary on other disabled people traveling to Lourdes for an annual May pilgrimage with the Order of Malta.
In Yemen, amid world’s worst humanitarian crisis, dozens of people are killed seeking help ahead of feast days April 21, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News At least 85 people were killed in a crowd surge in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, April 19 as needy residents in the war-torn nation flocked to receive charity handouts from local merchants.
Notre Dame cathedral was on fire four years ago; here is what’s happening now April 17, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Notre Dame Cathedral will get its spire back by the end of 2023, more than four years after it was devastated by a fire.
Maryland family connects with Poland’s Ulma family, murdered by Nazis March 27, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News The Vatican confirmed the martyrdom of the Ulma family, including their unborn child, on Dec. 17, 2022, clearing the way for all nine members of the Ulma family to be beatified.
Francis’ decade as pope called dramatic, dizzying, daring and divisive — anything but dull March 14, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News For the biographer of Pope Francis, 10 years into the current papacy, “the church is in a very different place,” with “less anger and defensiveness.” Commentators add that Pope Francis is a pope “who is not afraid to spark controversy” and are certain he’s a “daring” pope “full of surprises.”
He has ‘changed our lives,’ say those in need about Francis, the ‘pope of the poor’ March 13, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis focused his papacy on the poor and needy.
Catholic charities sending millions in aid to an ailing Syria and Turkey after deadly earthquake February 15, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News With the 19th-century cathedral lying in ruins, along with many of the homes of his parishioners, Father Dogondke is left with a community of people who are accustomed to serving others who now have nothing left themselves.
Vatican funding for charitable works totals $10.7 million in 2022; $2.2 million alone goes to needs in Ukraine January 23, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Giving, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The Dicastery for the Service of Charity, led by Polish Cardinal Krajewski, spent $2.2 million (2 million euros) in 2022 for humanitarian help in Ukraine.
In a turn of history, Poland is country that will miss German pope the most January 9, 2023By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, World News Hundreds of Polish priests dropped everything and came to Rome to pay tribute to the pope emeritus.
