California’s rising assisted suicide rate alarms Catholics September 10, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News When California in 2021 relaxed its physician-assisted death rules — easing access to the lethal means for residents to take their own lives — several lawmakers behind the change cited a desire to aid the terminally ill, invoking a sort of legislative altruism.
Speakers’ remarks on synod reflect tensions, hopes for renewed missionary spirit in church September 9, 2023By Matthew Gambino OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News From its beginning in 2021, the church’s synod on synodality has raised a question: Where is this worldwide process of listening to the people of God, especially those on the margins, going?
Eastern Catholic parishes evangelize through liturgy, outreach and community life September 9, 2023By Kiki Hayden OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Inviting others into their rich liturgical traditions, fostering belonging in small communities and reaching out to the secular world via podcasts and “coffee shop ministry,” many Eastern Catholic parishes have unique ways of bringing people to full life in Jesus Christ as his disciples.
Pakistani women still feel effects of 2022 floods, says CRS staffer September 9, 2023By Barb Fraze OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News More than a year after floods submerged one-third of Pakistan, “women in particular are (still) being impacted,” said the head of programming for Catholic Relief Services in the country.
Relic of St. Jude, apostle and patron of desperate causes, begins US tour September 8, 2023By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News The Relic of St. Jude tour begins in Chicago Sept. 9 at St. John Cantius Church. Scheduled stops for the remainder of 2023 include parishes in Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa, followed by Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska, Indiana and Michigan.
Ukrainian battlefront bishop says country is ‘sensitive’ to pope’s words September 8, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Since Auxiliary Bishop Maksym Ryabukha of Donetsk was installed in December 2022, 10 months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he has driven more than 30,000 miles near the largely occupied areas of Eastern Ukraine to tend to his flock — and he feels right at home.
Vatican offers details on how synod will work, media access September 8, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Any limitations and rules regarding media access and communications during the upcoming Synod of Bishops are rooted in the “essence” of a synod and meant to help participants in their process of discernment, said the head of the synod’s communication committee.
Pope calls for literacy in peacemaking, care for the environment September 8, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News If people can learn how to inflict suffering on others with ever more deadly weapons, they also can learn to stop doing so, Pope Francis said.
Archbishop Lori says Baltimore archdiocese will consider reorganization to address potential claims September 8, 2023By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: 2023 Attorney General's Report, Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, News Archbishop William E. Lori told Catholics that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is considering Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization as one option to deal with lawsuits expected to be filed when the Child Victims Act takes effect Oct. 1.
Document found detailing convents in Rome that hid Jews from the Nazis September 8, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Catholic and Jewish institutions announced Sept. 7 the discovery of a previously unpublished list of several thousand people, mostly Jews, who were hidden in Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome during the Nazi occupation of the city.
Across the nation, aborted children will be remembered and mourned September 8, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children takes place Sept. 9, with services and gatherings at some 225 locations across the country. About 56 of those locations are gravesites for the remains of aborted children, while the majority are memorials.
‘Courageous Catholic medicine’ needed more than ever, say medical professionals September 8, 2023By Maria Wiering Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News “Be Not Afraid: Courageous Catholic Medicine” is the theme of the Catholic Medical Association’s 92nd annual educational conference Sept. 7-9 in Phoenix.
