Amid devastation of Israel-Hamas war, miracles happen, says Caritas Jerusalem August 1, 2024By Dale Gavlak OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Disaster Relief, Feature, News, World News The staff of the international Catholic relief arm Caritas Jerusalem are expressing praise and gratitude for God’s seeming miraculous intervention on a Gaza church compound July 29.
Warsaw Uprising, a heroic fight against brutal German terror, was full of saints, says author August 1, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Saints, World News The Warsaw Uprising that broke out 80 years ago, on Aug. 1, 1944, was the biggest organized resistance fight in occupied Europe against the deadly German regime during World War II.
New Ohio law requires public schools to ‘reasonably’ accommodate students’ religious beliefs August 1, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Schools, World News Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine July 24 signed the Religious Expression Days Act into law, which requires every public school to adopt a policy that “reasonably accommodates” the sincerely held religious beliefs and practices of students.
Senate passes major online child safety legislation, but future in House uncertain August 1, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, social media, U.S. Congress, World News The U.S. Senate passed two major online child safety reforms July 30, but the bills face an uncertain future in the House.
All things French August 1, 2024By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Olympics As Catholics, we should stand with our bishops and those around the world when they speak out against the open ridicule of our faith and the blasphemies of our times.
Pope visits amusement park near Rome August 1, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis visited an amusement park an hour outside of Rome to greet workers, their families and the two nuns providing pastoral care there.
Art center founded by Father Rupnik pushes back on removal of artwork August 1, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News The artistic community founded by Father Marko Rupnik, the Slovenian priest accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing multiple women, dismissed calls from survivors to remove the artist’s work, saying such decisions are a symptom of “cancel culture.”
Streaming Review: ‘The Decameron’ August 1, 2024By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews As is well-known, illiteracy was widespread during the Middle Ages. To judge by the characters who populate the limited-series television comedy “The Decameron,” however, so too was rank stupidity.
Is every Sunday a wasted opportunity? August 1, 2024By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Worship & Sacraments The goal should be to help average adult Catholics know what it is they profess to believe, what it is they are participating in each Sunday, and what it means to be a baptized Christian in today’s world.
Blessing people in ‘irregular’ relationships is not doctrinal error, theologian says August 1, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News There have been “various signs” in modern times that have prompted a new awareness of the Gospel and how great God’s love for humanity is, a theologian and consultor for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said.
Arrest made in 2023 assault outside Planned Parenthood in Baltimore July 31, 2024By Gerry Jackson Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life Baltimore City Police confirmed that after more than a year they have made an arrest in an assault of two elderly pro-life activists outside a downtown Planned Parenthood Center.
Venezuelan bishops call for verifying election results as protests over Maduro win intensify July 31, 2024By Manuel Rueda OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Bishops in Venezuela called July 30 for the results of the nation’s heavily disputed presidential election to be verified as protests break across the South American country over the official vote count — which gave President Nicolas Maduro a third consecutive term.
