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Simone Orendain

Simone Orendain writes for OSV News from Chicago.

Red hat is ‘call to martyrdom’ for Philippine bishop outspoken on country’s war on drugs

November 3, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

Bishop Pablo Virgilio Siongco David of Kalookan, Philippines, one of the 21 cardinal-designates to be elevated at the Dec. 7 consistory at the Vatican, was thrust into the spotlight and singled out by his country’s president in 2018 at the height of a bloody government anti-drug war there.

Cardinal questions ‘canonical status’ of synod because so many non-bishops are participating

October 1, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News

A former Vatican doctrinal chief cast sharp criticism on the Synod on Synodality days ahead of the synod’s second and final session starting Oct. 2.

Western New York diocese plans to halve its 160 parishes by June 2025

September 19, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: News, World News

The Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., plans to reduce the total number of its 160 parishes by 51 percent following a Sept. 10 announcement of final decisions on closures and mergers.

‘Livin’ on a prayer’: Catholic-raised Bon Jovi helps save woman on Nashville bridge

September 13, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News

Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi reportedly saved a woman’s life when he talked her into stepping off the ledge of a bridge over the river in Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 10.

Young Chicago priest under investigation for alleged child abuse during retreat confessions

September 10, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News

The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Sept. 6 that a state investigation is underway into alleged sexual abuse by a newly ordained priest.

Pandemic is officially over, but will Communion chalices make comeback at Mass?

August 23, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

After the federal government declared a health emergency in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic churches in the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to provide the Eucharist, the sacrament that is the “source and summit of the Christian life” while keeping people safe from contagion.

Chinese Catholics gather in Chicago to discuss the church’s challenges in China today

August 7, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News

An Aug. 2-4 conference in Chicago on the life of the Catholic Church in China covered both the difficulties and strengths of being a church under a heavily regulatory communist government.

National pilgrimage stops in Chicago reveal life-changing encounters with the Eucharist

July 2, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News

A permanent pilgrim on the northern National Eucharistic Procession route heading toward Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress in July said at a stop in the Chicago area that before people can encounter the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist they first have to know who Jesus is.

Protesters at U.S. Catholic colleges, universities join voices to pro-Palestinian movement

May 13, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Colleges, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News

As the school year draws to a close, student protesters at Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. have added their voices to the din of pro-Palestinian shouts at campuses across the country and around the word.

Sister best known for ministry to migrant shares her artwork that tells their stories

April 27, 2024
By Simone Orendain
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

A religious sister best known for helping more than 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Texas was in Chicago April 15 to share her artwork nationally for the first time and reiterate a message of love.

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