Kids need lots of people who love them July 21, 2025By Laura Kelly Fanucci OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Youth Ministry From lifelong commitments to the children we love, to volunteering with kids who need extra support, to simply opening our hearts to the delightful (if sometimes distracting!) presence of the young church with us at Mass, God gives us many ways to care for the children in our lives.
A parenting lesson in the Mary and Martha story July 20, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window, Uncategorized Relationships are unique. We connect with each person in a distinctive way, meeting them where they are. We don’t talk to Mary the same way we talk to Martha.
Pope Leo XIV champions media literacy July 20, 2025By Sister Hosea Rupprecht OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Journalism, social media Teaching media literacy is a formational imperative for Catholics, especially those charged with the religious education of the young.
Whatever the genre, Dion’s music still focuses on life’s larger questions July 20, 2025By Michael Mastromatteo OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, News, World News DiMucci, known throughout his nearly 70-year recording career by his first name Dion, distinguished himself from many rock and roll colleagues in the late 1960s by publicly recommitting himself to his Christian faith.
When it comes to serving students with disabilities, how are Catholic schools doing? July 19, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, News, Schools, World News Catholic experts argue, Catholic schools may be the best place for children with special needs, because they root each child’s identity not in achievement, but in being a child of God. But that attitude alone does not erase real hurdles, they acknowledge.
A sower of light in the shadows July 19, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Commentary, Vatican Pope Leo stressed the importance of integrity, authenticity and transparency in the life of priests — antidotes to the double life that some priests have lived.
Tolton ambassadors renew goal to promote, pray for famed Black priest’s canonization July 18, 2025By Catherine Odell OSV News Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, News, Saints, World News Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, supporters of Venerable Augustus Tolton (1854-1897) gathered in South Bend to pray, discuss and recommit to promoting his cause for sainthood.
NBC’s Tom Llamas says Catholic education deepened his faith, pushed him to always do his best July 18, 2025By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Journalism, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News Tom Llamas became the first Latino anchor of an American weekday nightly news broadcast this year when last March he was officially named both “NBC Nightly News” anchor and managing editor, as well as anchor of “Top Story” on “NBC News NOW.”
Creation, human and divine July 18, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary We can, in other words, move beyond our bubble, to become more than ourselves — or, rather, to become the selves that we were always meant to be, because we were created by God and redeemed by His Son and sanctified by His Holy Spirit — all realities in which no AI can ever share, no matter how much it might, through a combination of increasing accuracy and (ironically) “hallucination,” come to mimic human consciousness.
Quo Vadis attracts biggest crowd ever, promotes camaraderie and faith July 17, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations, Young Adult Ministry Shouts and laughter filled a large hall at St. Mary’s Seminary in Roland Park July 9 as more than 100 teenage boys threw themselves into a high-energy group game – just one part of a week designed to inspire deeper faith and lasting friendships. The occasion was Quo Vadis, a four-day summer vocations camp for young men hosted by the seminarians of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Three dead, Holy Family Gaza pastor injured after mid-morning Israeli attack July 17, 2025By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Two people were confirmed dead and several were injured, including a parish pastor, following what initial reports say was a mid-morning Israeli tank attack on the Holy Family Parish Church in Gaza on July 17.
Proof of life for kidnapped Nigerian priest received by Alaska diocese where he served July 17, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A kidnapped Nigerian priest, who previously served in Alaska, has managed to contact his home diocese, OSV News has learned.
