Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, World News
A scholar who has written about the moral implications of atomic weapons and now is writing a book on the historic legacy of faith of Catholics of Nagasaki, Japan, is leading the Nagasaki Bell Project.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, News, World News
In presenting Catholic Extension Society’s 2024 Spirit of Francis Award to Kerry Alys Robinson, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, Father Jack Wall, Catholic Extension’s president, called Robinson “a great mentor of faith, hope, love and leadership.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News
When a new archbishop takes charge of Poland’s key Warsaw Archdiocese Dec. 14, his progress will be watched closely by those favoring change in the country’s Catholic Church.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Hispanic Ministry, News, Vatican, World News
Reducing the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe to anything other than an expression of Mary’s universal motherhood diminishes the true essence of the iconic Marian devotion, Pope Francis said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News
Basilan Sisters and some 80 children in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia narrowly avoided being killed in a deadly Dec. 6 strike by Russia, as they celebrated a liturgy marking the feast of St. Nicholas.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Local News, News, Schools
Mercy High School, a North Baltimore all-girls Catholic secondary school, launched Dec. 12 a $10 million capital campaign, “The Spirit of Mercy: Advancing the Legacy of the Sisters of Mercy.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel the international debt of developing nations as concrete ways to usher in a new era of hope.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News
As the fighting in Gaza drags on, Pope Francis welcomed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the Vatican.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Hispanic Ministry, News, World News
Mexico’s Catholic clergy have called for a truce on Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and on Christmas Day as criminal violence wracks swaths of the country and clergy working in conflictive regions come under threat.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, News, World News
At a time marked by division, several U.S. bishops wrote Dec. 11 that the patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, is “a powerful reminder that we are all called to be one in Christ Jesus, beginning from the moment of our conception.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, News, Respect Life, World News
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., surprised some political observers for her union-friendly positions, but also faced criticism from some business groups, as well as from pro-life conservatives concerned about her record on abortion.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News
With several high-profile cases involving financial mismanagement by priests emerging in recent years, two researchers have found some surprising reasons behind clerical embezzlement — and, they told OVS News, financial pressure isn’t usually one of them, as their long-term data shows.
