Praying to the Holy Spirit can help couples stay united, pope says October 23, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Because the Holy Spirit specializes in love and unity, Catholic couples should pray regularly for the Spirit to be present in their marriage, Pope Francis said.
Television Review: ‘Grotesquerie,’ streaming, Hulu October 23, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Catholic viewers will naturally be interested in a TV show that features a nun as one of its principal characters. In the case of “Grotesquerie,” however, they’ll tune in, to use an obsolete term, only to be turned off — both by a welter of gore and by a treatment of the church that degenerates from mere ignorance to outright hostility.
Question Corner: What is church’s teaching on transgender issues? October 23, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner The church is against any “gender ideology” that would separate the concept of psychological gender from biological sex; or which would propose that one’s sex could be changed through medical or surgical means; or which would hold that one’s bodily sex could be somehow wrong or mistaken in light of one’s self-perception of one’s gender.
Atlanta archbishop calls for prayers of reparation in face of satanic temple’s ‘black mass’ October 23, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Atlanta has called on all Catholics to counter — with prayers of reparation and penance — the sacrilege of a so-called “black mass” being organized by the satanic temple of Atlanta and scheduled to take place Oct. 25.
U.S. church contributes to synod through its diversity, delegate says October 23, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The U.S. delegates at the Synod of Bishops on synodality are contributing to discussions on the future of the Catholic Church by bringing the diversity of the U.S. church to the Vatican, a U.S. synod delegate said.
‘I can feel the tension in a way that I haven’t before,’ says Beirut archbishop October 23, 2024By Leo Morawiecki OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Having returned the previous day from a religious summit in Bkerke, north of Beirut, Archbishop Bacouni struck a tone of cautious optimism regarding the end of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
Ofrecer el liderazgo que ahora la Iglesia y El Espiritu espera de nosotros October 22, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: En Español, Protagonistas de Fe En este episodio de Protagonistas de Fe, Alejandro Aguilera Titus de la USCCB nos habla sobre el Plan Pastoral Nacional Para el Ministerio Hispano/Latino, “La presencia hispana es una levadura que esta transformando el rostro de la Iglesia y esta contribuyendo al tejido que continua dándole forma a la Iglesia en Estados Unidos.”
Coalition’s declaration promotes life-affirming health care for both ‘maternal and fetal’ patients October 22, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News A coalition of medical and pro-life groups Oct. 22 launched what they called the Women’s Healthcare Declaration, which they said calls on policymakers, medical boards and other health care entities to enact pro-life policies that enhance “the medical standard of care for pregnant women and women facing miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, an incomplete abortion or any other life-threatening condition related to pregnancy.”
Sister Frances Schiminsky, O.S.F., dies at 95 October 22, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Frances Schiminsky (formerly Sister Ann Philip), will be offered Oct. 25 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Frances died Oct. 21. She was 95 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 76 years.
Synodality is already well-rooted in Asia, Africa, two members say October 22, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, World News Catholics in Asia and Africa have already been leading the way with synodality, two members of the Synod of Bishops on synodality said.
Pope Francis expels more Sodalitium members as calls increase for group’s suppression October 22, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has expelled two more members and upheld the expulsion of one member of the controversial lay movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae due to allegations of sexual abuse, abuse of power and financial malfeasance.
Lima archbishop says movement with U.S. ties should be suppressed October 22, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News A Peru-based Catholic movement active across Latin America and the United States is more of a “political project” than a religious movement, said the archbishop of the Peruvian capital where the movement is based.
