Catholic advocates raise alarm at Trump’s call to ‘pause’ migration from ‘Third World Countries’ December 2, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News President Donald Trump said in a series of social media posts on Thanksgiving Day that he will “permanently pause” all immigration from what he called “Third World Countries,” prompting concern from Catholic immigration advocates.
U.S. bishops award over $7 million in grants to home missions, thanks to nation’s Catholics December 2, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Missions, News, World News Dozens of “home mission dioceses” across the nation have received much-needed financial support, provided by the generosity of U.S. Catholics through an annual collection.
Choose the way of peace, pope says as he leaves Lebanon December 2, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV ended his stay in Lebanon with what he termed “a heartfelt appeal: may the attacks and hostilities cease.”
‘One mightier than I is coming’: Advent with St. John the Baptist December 2, 2025By D.D. Emmons OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary, Saints While we celebrate both John’s birth (on June 24) and death (Aug. 29), it is during Advent that the liturgy amplifies John’s role as the precursor of Christ. It is John who, as God’s instrument, tells the world to get ready, the Messiah is coming; it is John who will then single out the Messiah living in the midst of man.
The time that has been given to us December 2, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Advent, Commentary What do I choose to do with the time given me? Worry prevents me from using my precious time freely and constructively. Anxiety inhibits my boldness.
The importance of ‘Gaudium et Spes,’ 60 years later December 2, 2025By Deacon Omar F.A. Gutierrez OSV News Filed Under: Commentary The “Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World” is rich in tradition and yet boldly new in the way it presents that tradition to the world. It is a manifesto of love directed toward an ever more secularized world, a world that looks with skepticism at the church.
Baltimore native Weigel honored for defense of human dignity in the face of aggression December 1, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, The Catholic Difference, War in Ukraine, World News American theologian and author George Weigel was honored Nov. 30 with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s Blessed Omelyan Kovch Award at the National Opera House in Lviv, Ukraine.
Lebanese have what is needed to build a future of peace, pope says December 1, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News Even in the face of difficulties and the constant threat of war, the young people of Lebanon and the country’s religious leaders have enormous resources that can build a better future for all people, Pope Leo XIV said.
Children, refugees victimized by AI-fueled human trafficking, says Vatican diplomat December 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Immigration and Migration, News, World News With human trafficking on the rise globally, the Vatican’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations is highlighting concerns for child victims and refugees — while warning of technological tools used by traffickers to expand their criminal activities.
Record numbers of women are visiting pregnancy centers, study shows December 1, 2025By Zoey Maraist Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News In 2024, pregnancy centers saw more new clients, provided more medical care and distributed more material goods than ever before, according to a new report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Accompanying Dad on his final journey: View from the treehouse December 1, 2025By Barb Arland-Fye OSV News Filed Under: Commentary My memories of the father who loved his family, lifted us up and lived his Catholic faith in word, thought and deed.
Pew: U.S. Latinos disapprove of Trump’s immigration, economic policies December 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Most of the nation’s Latinos disapprove of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration and economic policies — and more than half are worried that they or a loved one could be deported, including about 1 in 3 Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens by birth.
