World Mission Sunday reminds Catholics of ‘our connection’ to faithful around globe, priest says October 17, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Giving, Missions, News, World News Each year, churches around the world commemorate World Mission Sunday to highlight, encourage and promote the Catholic Church’s missions around the world.
Wester: Nobel Peace Prize for Japanese atomic bomb survivors ‘fitting’ amid global tensions October 17, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, War in Ukraine, World News The naming of a Japanese atomic bomb survivors group as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient is “fitting … during this time of heightened geopolitical tension,” said Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., who has traveled to Japan on several peace pilgrimages and also released a 2022 pastoral letter on nuclear disarmament.
For Toronto’s Cardinal-designate Leo, call he’ll get red hat came out of the blue October 17, 2024By Quinton Amundson OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis will create 21 new cardinals, including the Toronto prelate, at a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica the afternoon of Dec. 7 and present them with their red hats.
Polls show tight contest in final stretch of presidential campaign season October 16, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News Polls show a tight contest between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the final stretch of the 2024 campaign season.
Church leaders speak up after French school supervising body fires principal of Catholic school October 16, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News The archbishop of Paris spoke out in favor of freedom of Catholic education in France, amid weeks of tensions and protests after the principal of a Catholic school was fired by the state school-supervising body for “breaching secularism.”
Holy Spirit guides faithful to be synodal, correct others, cardinal says October 16, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, World News The faithful will know how to avoid being swayed by worldly standards and concerns when they believe and trust more deeply that Jesus and the Holy Spirit will always help and guide them, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes of Mexico City told participants at the Synod of Bishops.
Pope tells Sicilian theologians their work can’t ignore Mafia, migration October 16, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The best theological study and research are inspired by prayer that is attuned to the realities around the theologian, so in Sicily theology should address issues related to the Mafia and about migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis’ memoir to be published in January, publisher announces October 16, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Books, News, Vatican, World News An Italian publisher announced the global release in January of “Hope,” a book it described as Pope Francis’ autobiography, which the pope apparently planned to have released only after his death.
Pope says he hopes for ‘reconciled differences’ among Christians October 16, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis called on divided Christians to overcome their doctrinal differences and walk together in love, expressing hope especially for greater unity between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
Papal envoy visits Russia to discuss humanitarian situation in Ukraine October 16, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, Pope Francis’ envoy for peace in Ukraine, returned to Moscow in mid-October for meetings with Russian government officials and leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Catholics have ‘duty to protect’ all human life, bishop says at New Jersey Mass for Life October 16, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Before the standing-room-only congregation gathered in Trenton’s St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral for the first statewide Mass for Life, Bishop David M. O’Connell framed his homily around the words “Duty to Protect” when it comes to protecting all human life, especially “the child in their mother’s womb, the child in the mother’s arms and beyond.
Question Corner: If most of us go to purgatory at death, are Catholics ‘saved?’ October 16, 2024By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Although purgatory is not exactly a “punishment” in the way we would tend to use the term today, traditionally purgatory has been understood to involve a degree of suffering.
