Vatican can take 3 key steps to bring Ukrainian kids back from Russia, says child advocate June 14, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News The Vatican can take three key steps to provide greater assistance than it already has in securing the return of Ukrainian children forcibly taken by Russia, a Ukrainian child advocate and former government official told OSV News.
Delaware garden of plenty provides food to needy, thanks to Vincentians, parishes June 14, 2025By Cathy Rossie OSV News Filed Under: Environment, News, Social Justice, World News An expansive garden sitting on a third of an acre of parish property at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Frankford, the mission church of St. Ann Parish in Bethany Beach, serves neighbors in need within the boundaries of both churches and is the only one of its kind in the Wilmington Diocese.
Pope sets Sept. 7 for joint canonization of Blesseds Acutis and Frassati June 13, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced.
Texas prisoners’ witness of faith makes prison visit ‘a highlight’ of eucharistic pilgrimage June 13, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News The eight young adults traveling the full route of this year’s National Eucharistic Pilgrimage had expected to witness their faith to inmates of James Lynaugh Prison Unit near Fort Stockton, Texas, during their June 9 visit.
As revival’s Year of Mission draws to close, organizers look back — and ahead June 13, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News In the same way that a relationship with Christ is not about something but someone, the organizers of the National Eucharistic Revival will tell you that their movement is not just something faithful Catholics do, but something that they are — a grace from God, stirring up the hearts of his people.
Amid unrest in LA over ICE raids, faithful urged to pray for peace in streets, city June 13, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Amid ongoing unrest in Los Angeles over immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “we bring our cares and anxieties to Jesus today, and to his Mother, Our Lady of the Angels,” Archbishop Jose´ H. Gomez said June 11.
Pew: Christianity up in sub-Saharan Africa, down worldwide due to those leaving the faith June 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world’s Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe’s “widespread Christian disaffiliation” — with Christians declining as a share of the world’s population due to adherents leaving the faith, according to new research by the Pew Research Center.
Pope’s brother says even as a baby, future pontiff had a spiritual ‘air’ about him June 13, 2025By Simone Orendain Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News In an interview with OSV News, Louis Prevost said that it was more than just Robert being “the baby of the family. … There was an air about him. I mean the spirit coming out of his physical body as he grew older.”
Sister Joan Minella, former principal and pastoral life director, dies June 12, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Joan Marie Minella was offered May 30 at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Joan died May 9, just a few days shy of turning 90.
How faith-based higher education can best serve society is focus of symposium June 12, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News The second convening of the Commission on Faith-Based Colleges and Universities of the American Council on Education was the first for Holy Cross Father Robert A. Dowd, who became the 18th president of the University of Notre Dame last September.
House Republicans advance bill to repeal FACE Act June 12, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News The House Judiciary Committee voted June 10 to repeal a federal law crafted to protect access to reproductive health facilities by prohibiting actions such as obstructing the entrance to an abortion clinic.
Archbishop Lori offers encouragement to charitable agencies affected by federal cuts June 12, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, St. Vincent de Paul Baltimore At a time when federal funding cuts are straining the services of charitable organizations across the region, Archbishop William E. Lori offered a message of hope and solidarity during a special “Mass for the Preservation of Peace and Justice” celebrated June 11 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
