Journey together, seek real encounters, pope advises young people August 5, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry A solo traveler, even using Google maps and ChatGPT, cannot safely and happily complete the journey of life or the journey of faith, Pope Leo XIV told thousands of young pilgrims meeting at the Marian shrine in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Indian nuns released on conditional bail; advocates, superiors call their arrest ‘unlawful’ August 5, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Two Catholic nuns and an Indigenous youth jailed for alleged human trafficking and forced conversion in central India have been released on bail under strict conditions by a special court dealing with terror cases.
Father Donio receives Knights’ highest award for work as chaplain August 5, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News Pallottine Father Frank S. Donio, a former pastoral director of St. Jude Shrine in Baltimore, earned the 2025 International Blessed Michael McGivney Medal, the highest honor given annually to a Knights of Columbus chaplain.
Irish lay missionary, child among several kidnapped from orphanage in Haiti August 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Missions, News, World News A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation’s long-running armed gang violence and instability.
West Virginia bishop warns on immigration: ‘The final judge of our actions is God’ August 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., is urging the people of his state to “affirm the humanity of all immigrants, regardless of legal status.”
Peace, disarmament begin in the heart, said Archbishop Broglio August 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News Peace and nuclear disarmament begin in the heart, said the head of the nation’s Catholic bishops.
Mount St. Mary’s launches new physician assistant program August 4, 2025By Tierra Stone Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg is directly addressing Maryland’s growing healthcare crisis with the launch of a new physician assistant (PA) initiative. Recently granted provisional accreditation, it will welcome its inaugural class in January 2026.
Trump administration moves to reinstate VA health policy fully excluding abortion August 4, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor’s policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling.
Mass celebrated at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for detained Catholic migrants August 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Lebanese Catholic clergy commemorate Beirut port explosion victims five years later August 4, 2025By Dale Gavlak OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News Lebanon’s Catholic clergy celebrated a commemorative Mass and held a vigil in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, remembering those who perished five years earlier, on Aug. 4, 2020, in the catastrophic Beirut port explosion.
Pope offers prayers after shipwreck of migrant boat off Yemen August 4, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News As emergency workers searched for survivors and tried to recuperate the bodies of the dead, Pope Leo XIV offered his prayers for people impacted by the latest shipwreck of a migrant boat off the coast of Yemen.
Radio Interview: The Vatican Observatory August 4, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Editor Christopher Gunty talks with Jesuit Father Paul Gabor, vice director of the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., about the intersection between faith and science.
