New report notes ‘significant rise’ in ‘personal attacks’ on Christians in Europe November 18, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News In its 2025 report, the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians, or OIDAC, noted “a significant rise in personal attacks” against Christians in 2024.
‘Creation is crying out,’ pope says in new message to COP30 November 18, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, News, Vatican, World News While “creation is crying out” and millions of people suffer the effects of climate change and pollution, politicians are failing to act, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope asks priests in diplomatic corps to be witnesses of hope November 18, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News The priests who staff nunciatures and other Vatican diplomatic missions around the world must be priests first and diplomats second, Pope Leo XIV told them.
White House ‘border czar’ calls U.S. bishops ‘wrong’ after immigration statement November 18, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The White House “border czar” Tom Homan called the U.S. Catholic bishops “wrong” Nov. 14, two days after the body of bishops in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted overwhelmingly to issue a rare group statement voicing “our concern here for immigrants” at their annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.
Bishops’ new pro-life chair: Project Rachel ministries ‘key to our pro-life efforts’ November 18, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Respect Life, World News During the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chair of the bishops’ pro-life committee, spoke with OSV News about its priorities and the importance of offering “healing and the tender mercy of God” to those hurt by abortion.
Baltimore-area Catholic school students take active role in Ignatian Teach-In November 18, 2025By Kurt Jensen Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Social Justice The annual Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice, which focuses on social justice and issue advocacy for Catholic high school and college students, drew about 1,800 participants to an Arlington, Va., hotel Nov. 15-16.
AI offers the church an ‘evangelical opportunity,’ scholar tells U.S. bishops November 18, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Evangelization, News, Uncategorized, World News Paul Scherz, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, shared his insights in a Nov. 12 address he gave regarding the problems and the potential of AI during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall meeting, which took place Nov. 10-13 in Baltimore.
Radio Interview: Incredible Catholic America November 18, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Books, CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Radio Managing Editor George Matysek talks with Marion Amberg, author of “Incredible Catholic America: Smallest, Tallest, Oldest, Oddest,” a fascinating collection of more than 300 stories about the people, places, and traditions that make Catholic America unique. She’s also the author of two award-winning Catholic travel books and a journalist whose work appears in more than 100 markets nationwide.
Prayer sustains priests marking anniversaries November 18, 2025By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien and Monsignor Richard Tillman were ordained in 1965. They, and several other priests marking milestone jubilees, were honored at the annual Priests Fall Day of Prayer, Mass for Deceased Priests, and Celebration of Service, Nov. 17 at Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City.
Polish, German bishops remember ‘great act of forgiveness’ that happened 20 years after WWII November 17, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News When bishops from Poland and Germany gather to commemorate one of Europe’s most famous acts of reconciliation, discussion will focus on its historic significance and continued meaning for the present.
Synod study groups release ‘interim’ reports as most continue working November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The study groups Pope Francis had established to provide an in-depth reflection on controversial, complex or “emerging” questions raised during the Synod of Bishops on synodality have published interim reports.
Pope assures the poor they are loved by God, calls on governments to act November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Before joining hundreds of people for lunch, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor and prayed that all Christians would share “the love of God, which welcomes, binds up wounds, forgives, consoles and heals.”
