Helene downgraded but not before causing massive flooding, major damage, several deaths September 27, 2024By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News As Florida prepared for the massive Hurricane Helene to make landfall along the state’s Gulf Coast the evening of Sept. 26, Bishop William A. Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee livestreamed his personal reflection and prayer.
Educators say special needs, developmental delayss on rise, blame screen time, pandemic August 22, 2024By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, social media, World News Two key educators associated with Head Start of Miami-Dade County in Southern Florida and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami worry about an uptick in youngsters with specific developmental disabilities and special needs.
Grenada bishop addresses flock following Hurricane Beryl’s wrath July 5, 2024By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News In his first public address since Hurricane Beryl visited the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles region as the earliest formed Category 5 hurricane on record, the bishop of St. George’s in Grenada took to social media to offer a spiritual message of hope and resilience following the July 1 landfall there.
Havana chapel restored, reconsecrated with U.S., international support May 9, 2024By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: News, World News What some are now calling the most beautiful church in Cuba is a newly restored Catholic university chapel in Havana abruptly abandoned during the Cuban Revolution and in disuse for some 60 years.
Franciscans in Holy Land advance next phase of Jerusalem’s Terra Sancta Museum March 18, 2023By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News Objects cared for by the Franciscans in the Holy Land, including a collection of 13 church bells discovered hidden in Bethlehem and dating back to the Middle Ages, have traveled to some of the great museums of the world.
Holy Land tourism begins to return to normalcy after pandemic, but Ukraine war presents other setbacks February 18, 2023By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News As Israel lifted all bans and restrictions connected with COVID, the country has witnessed a gradual return of tourism, especially in the last quarter of 2022.
Church must shift view ‘from maintenance to mission,’ New York Cardinal says January 24, 2023By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York encouraged Catholics to find a silver lining as they confront declining religious observance, shuttered churches, dioceses in bankruptcy and diminished cultural clout.
