Synod study groups release ‘interim’ reports as most continue working November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The study groups Pope Francis had established to provide an in-depth reflection on controversial, complex or “emerging” questions raised during the Synod of Bishops on synodality have published interim reports.
Pope assures the poor they are loved by God, calls on governments to act November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Before joining hundreds of people for lunch, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor and prayed that all Christians would share “the love of God, which welcomes, binds up wounds, forgives, consoles and heals.”
Pope asks big names in film to continue to challenge, inspire, give hope November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Meeting an international cast of film directors and actors, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the power of cinema to help people “contemplate and understand life, to recount its greatness and fragility and to portray the longing for infinity.”
New tools for weight loss can be life-changing, though complicated November 17, 2025By Patricia Zapor Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News For two Catholic parishioners who have used these relatively recent approaches to reduce their weight, the medication or surgery is just one part of life changes they discussed with the Catholic Review.
Pope returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada November 16, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada’s Indigenous communities artifacts — including an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings — that have been held by the Vatican for more than 100 years.
Sacred Heart film breaks all records in secular France for viewership and public backlash November 15, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News With more than 400,000 viewers since its release as of Nov. 14, and counting, a new film about the Sacred Heart of Jesus has become an unexpected box office hit in France — and a lightning rod for controversy.
New Barna data shows Gen Z leads in weekly in-person church attendance November 15, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, social media, World News, Youth Ministry They were the first generation to have technology at their fingertips from birth — “digital natives” who grew up with the Internet, iPhones, iPads, and computers. They’re Generation Z, better known as “Gen Z” — born between 1997-2012 — and they’re estimated to be nearly a quarter of the world’s population.
What does World War I have to do with the solemnity of Christ the King, which marks a century this year? November 15, 2025By D.D. Emmons OSV News Filed Under: Commentary On the last Sunday of the liturgical year, Catholics celebrate the solemnity of Christ the King. A relative newcomer to the church calendar — established in the 20th century — this feast is designed to give special recognition to the dominion Christ our Lord has over all aspects of our lives.
Nuncio in Britain says pope won’t overturn restrictions on old Latin Mass November 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV does not intend to overturn Pope Francis’ limits on celebrating the traditional Latin Mass but will grant two-year dispensations to bishops who ask, a nuncio said.
Las reliquias de Santa Teresa de Lisieux llegan a Baltimore November 14, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: En Español Guardados en un relicario ornamentado de 136 kg, los objetos han viajado desde la Francia natal de santa Teresa como parte de una peregrinación que conmemora tanto el centenario de su canonización como el Año Jubilar de la Iglesia católica.
Love is key to church’s mental health ministry, says bishop who lost family to suicide November 14, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News Bishop Dolan delivered two addresses at the “Ministry of Hope Conference,” a global Catholic forum on mental health held Nov. 5-7 in Rome, organized by the International Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers with the patronage of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.
Pope Leo’s four favorite films November 14, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Vatican, World News In the lead-up to Pope Leo XIV’s Nov. 15 meeting with a group of Hollywood actors and directors, the Vatican offered an insight into the American-born pontiff’s cinematic taste by publishing a short list of his favorite films. Despite its brevity, the collection of four movies covers quite a lot of thematic and tonal territory.
