Pope Leo’s Creole roots raise hopes for Black American sainthood causes May 23, 2025By Patricia Zapor Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Vatican The election of a Chicago-born pope with Louisiana Creole ancestry is drawing attention from Black Catholics, especially after genealogist Jari Honora traced Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents to New Orleans’ Black Catholic community.
Amid polarized politics, Georgetown seminar explores the Latino Catholic voice May 23, 2025By Maria del Pilar Guzman OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Racial Justice, World News An event at Georgetown University put the spotlight on Latino communities and delved into the role of Latino Catholics in U.S. public life, highlighting their distinctive contributions, opportunities, and challenges in the polarized political landscape facing the nation.
U.S. bishops urge young people to ‘lead the way’ on climate crisis May 23, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News In a letter to mark the 10th anniversary of the late Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’,” U.S. bishops have urged young people to “lead the way” on the climate crisis.
Popular priest podcaster takes ‘Parables’ tour cross-country to sold-out crowds May 23, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News Now in his 20th year of “Bulldog Catholic” campus ministry, Father Schmitz has seen steady and encouraging growth — defying the prevailing narrative that 85 percent of Catholic college students will likely lose their faith before they graduate.
With Laudato Si’, Pope Francis firmly planted ecology into Catholic social teaching May 23, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News Pope Francis, who took his name from the patron saint of ecology — St. Francis of Assisi — died the day before Earth Day and about five weeks before the 10th anniversary of his landmark encyclical on care for creation.
House OKs Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’; Catholic leaders urge lawmakers to promote common good May 22, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News The U.S. House of Representatives May 22 passed a sweeping package for President Donald Trump’s agenda, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration.
Story behind beatification of Poland’s Father Stanislaw Streich is one of quiet courage May 22, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News In one of the first beatifications under Pope Leo XIV, the church in Poland is preparing to celebrate the beatification of Father Stanislaw Streich, a humble parish priest murdered at the altar in 1938.
Movie Review: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ May 22, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews “Lilo & Stitch” (Disney) is the latest yield of a long-term project on the part of the Mouse House to remake some of their more popular animated features of the past into live-action films. The result in this instance is a morally sound but shrill updating of a well-received — and, in some quarters, cherished — 2002 release.
Supreme Court deadlocks over proposed Oklahoma Catholic charter school May 22, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Uncategorized The high court’s 4-4 ruling means that a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which found the establishment of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School as a publicly funded religious school was unconstitutional, will stand for now.
Bishop calls for prayer after deadly attack outside DC’s Capital Jewish Museum May 22, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, Gun Violence, News, Uncategorized, World News Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va., called for prayers after two Israeli Embassy staff members were slain late May 21 outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.
Pope advances sainthood cause of missionaries killed trying to save Indigenous May 22, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV has advanced the sainthood causes of two missionaries whose murders in the Amazon jungle in Ecuador led to the protection of remote Indigenous peoples from encroaching extractive industries.
Cuts to CRS food aid projects could impact hundreds of thousands of children, group says May 22, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, World News Catholic Relief Services said May 21 that most of its projects under a federal international food aid program were terminated, leaving hundreds of thousands of children more vulnerable to hunger.
