The ‘life-changing’ experience of World Youth Day July 31, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023 Jessica Smith’s kids, ages 16 to 22, will be among the 400,000 registered young adults and as many as 2 million general pilgrims anticipated to attend World Youth Day this year with Pope Francis.
Ancient word: Jews, Christians study shared past in Vatican manuscripts July 30, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Some 20 Jewish and Christian scholars began a three-month hybrid course in mid-July at the Vatican Library to dig into more than 1,000 years of teachings contained in more than 800 ancient Hebrew manuscripts from the 9th to 16th centuries housed in its collections.
U.S. official calls state of religious freedom in Nigeria ‘abysmal,’ says country in ‘slow -motion genocide’ July 30, 2023By Ngala Killian Chimton OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News The chairman of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, has described religious freedom conditions in Nigeria as “abysmal.”
Archbishop: Nuclear weapons ‘scary, difficult topic’ Catholics must face July 29, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The issue of nuclear weapons is a “scary, difficult topic” but one “we have to face,” especially as Catholics, Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester said.
WYD Ukrainian Catholics want world to know ‘what Ukraine’s sacrifice really means’ July 29, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023 As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, young Ukrainian Catholics from the U.S. are traveling to World Youth Day with a mix of hope, excitement and urgency.
NFP a ‘skill set’ to for showing ‘Christ is involved’ in marriage, family life, say experts July 29, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News Natural family planning, or NFP, provides “a skill set” to help Catholic and Christian couples “live out their beliefs that Christ is involved” in marriage and family life, a national expert told OSV News.
Ohio abortion amendment qualifies for November ballot, may hinge on August special election July 28, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News An Ohio measure that would codify abortion access in the state’s constitution has qualified for the November ballot, but its fate may be determined by the outcome of a special election in August that raises the threshold for amending the state’s constitution.
Pence defends role of faith in public life at Catholic conference July 28, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, Religious Freedom, Respect Life, World News Former Vice President Mike Pence defended the role of faith in public life at a Catholic conference on July 27.
Catholic Charities USA names its second layperson president and CEO July 28, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News Kerry Alys Robinson has been named as the next president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the organization representing the interests of its 167 member organizations dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church in the United States.
‘Closing of the American heart’? Record number of US 40-year-olds never married July 28, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News A recent analysis shows 25 percent of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married — a record high — and may indicate “the closing of the American heart,” according to W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project.
Global synod faces challenge of getting pastoral care to divorced Catholics in parishes July 28, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News The forthcoming 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops — otherwise known as the Synod on Synodality, which Pope Francis convenes in Rome this October — will examine ways to accompany divorced and remarried Catholics.
Pope prays for WYD: The church is not a ‘club’ for the elderly July 28, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Portugal 2023 The Catholic Church is not a “club” for the elderly; it needs the participation of young people to keep it alive and ensure it does not “grow old,” Pope Francis said.
