Pope sets Aug. 22 as day to pray, fast for peace in Ukraine, Holy Land August 20, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Leo XIV asked Catholics to observe Aug. 22 as a day of prayer and fasting for peace and justice, particularly in Ukraine and in the Holy Land.
Question Corner: Why don’t bishops excommunicate politicians who support abortion? August 20, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner While the act of directly causing an abortion is a canonical crime that is punished with an automatic excommunication, (see Canon 1397, 2) this only applies in scenarios where a particular individual actually brought about an abortion personally — and not in situations where a person promoted abortion in a more abstract way.
Our story doesn’t end with the cross August 20, 2025By Effie Caldarola OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Immigration and Migration Father Strassburger reminded me that the “Christian story doesn’t end with the cross. It ends with the Resurrection.”
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon August 20, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
6 pro-life activists face state charges for abortion clinic ‘rescue’ in Pennsylvania August 19, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Six pro-life activists, a majority of them Catholics including two recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, are now facing state charges for a July 31 Red Rose Rescue abortion clinic “rescue” in Upland, Pa., near Philadelphia, that temporarily disrupted its activities.
The last atomic bomb August 19, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary Our faith teaches us to seek peace instead of power and to persevere in that effort instead of giving in to posturing. That demands that we acknowledge the evil that all weapons of mass destruction make possible.
Why Mary’s assumption makes total scientific sense August 19, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marian Devotion When we argue that Mary, as the Ark of the New Covenant, would have been spared the stain of original sin, the knowledge that Christ not only availed himself of her flesh, but would continually reside therein, only further supports that well reasoned belief.
Uruguay bishops express sadness over euthanasia vote August 19, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News The Uruguay bishops’ conference expressed sadness after the country’s lower house of Congress approved a bill decriminalizing euthanasia.
Pope Leo appoints new bishop of Jefferson City August 19, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV has named Father Ralph O’Donnell as the new bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, four months after then-Bishop W. Shawn McKnight was named archbishop of Kansas City, Kan.
Pope visits mountaintop Marian shrine August 19, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Marian Devotion, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV paid a private visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Grace of Mentorella, high in the Monti Prenestini mountain range of central Italy.
Movie Review: ‘Weapons’ August 19, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Taken as a whole, the horror film “Weapons” (Warner Bros.) tends to be subtle in its approach to intriguing and unsettling viewers.
Trump meets with Zelenskyy, European leaders after Putin summit August 19, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a delegation of European leaders Aug. 18 following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin a few days prior as he seeks a resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
