Pope’s condition still ‘critical’ with signs of renal insufficiency under control February 23, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News While Italy’s main news agency reported that Pope Francis’ respiratory “crisis” had subsided, a Vatican source said he was still receiving supplemental oxygen by nasal cannula early Feb. 23.
Bishops call for prayers as Pope Francis’ condition worsens February 23, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Catholic bishops throughout the U.S. are calling on faithful to pray for Pope Francis, now in critical condition in Rome’s Gemelli hospital amid a week-long battle with respiratory illness.
Deacons are called to selflessness, men ordained at Jubilee Mass are told February 23, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: deacons, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Feb. 23 ordination Mass at the Vatican was the culmination of a three-day Holy Year celebration that drew thousands of deacons, plus their wives and others, from more than 100 countries to Rome for communal prayer, discussion and celebration of the diaconate.
With mentors and Holy Spirit, marriage catechumenate model bears fruit February 23, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News The Witness to Love approach challenges couples to engage with church teaching and what being married means. It also involves close accompaniment by a practicing Catholic mentor couple — of their own choosing — who shares the couple’s journey to the altar and provides them a “lifeline” of support beyond the wedding day.
Pope has respiratory ‘crisis,’ doctors say ‘prognosis reserved’ February 22, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required the use of oxygen at high flows” Feb. 22, said the daily medical bulletin released by the Vatican.
U.S.-based evangelization project prepares people to become Jesus’ 73rd disciple February 22, 2025By Marietha Góngora V. OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News For every disciple to truly become “the salt of the earth and the light of the world” — that is the goal of “I Am the 73rd,” an evangelization initiative of El Sembrador-Nueva Evangelización, a Catholic network also known as ESNE.
Coalition aims to have an active prison ministry in all U.S. dioceses, get more laity involved February 22, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Prison Ministry, World News Those who accompany the incarcerated have said there is a lot to do in ministering to a population that has committed crimes and had to live with the consequences of those actions.
Bishops, Catholic leaders continue to speak out against Trump immigration changes February 21, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Catholic bishops, clergy and religious across the nation continue to weigh in on the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy, stressing the need to respect human dignity amid efforts to address immigration challenges.
Ukrainians need to be comforted ‘in their pain,’ chaplains say as war enters fourth year February 21, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As the war in Ukraine reaches the tragic threshold of three years, OSV News is profiling Catholics who have become quiet heroes of help, perseverance and faith amid the nightmare of a full-scale Russian invasion.
Pope’s chronic lung condition plus infection are serious, doctor says February 21, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News While Pope Francis’ life is not in immediate danger, the level of multiple infections in his lungs means he is not completely “out of danger,” said Dr. Sergio Alfieri, director of medical and surgical sciences at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.
Despite health challenges, pope has ‘unique’ presence, cardinal says February 21, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Despite his illness, Pope Francis’ “great desire is to at least complete the Jubilee, the holy year dedicated to hope that he feels is his great moment,” a cardinal told an Italian newspaper.
Ukraine’s major archbishop makes Jubilee visit to U.S.: ‘Solidarity keeps us standing’ February 21, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Hope in Christ and that God’s truth will prevail amid Russia’s war on Ukraine was the message that Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the patriarchal head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, shared time and again during his Feb. 15-21 Jubilee Year pastoral visit to the United States.
