Sacred Heart film breaks all records in secular France for viewership and public backlash November 15, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News With more than 400,000 viewers since its release as of Nov. 14, and counting, a new film about the Sacred Heart of Jesus has become an unexpected box office hit in France — and a lightning rod for controversy.
New Barna data shows Gen Z leads in weekly in-person church attendance November 15, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, social media, World News, Youth Ministry They were the first generation to have technology at their fingertips from birth — “digital natives” who grew up with the Internet, iPhones, iPads, and computers. They’re Generation Z, better known as “Gen Z” — born between 1997-2012 — and they’re estimated to be nearly a quarter of the world’s population.
Nuncio in Britain says pope won’t overturn restrictions on old Latin Mass November 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV does not intend to overturn Pope Francis’ limits on celebrating the traditional Latin Mass but will grant two-year dispensations to bishops who ask, a nuncio said.
Love is key to church’s mental health ministry, says bishop who lost family to suicide November 14, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News Bishop Dolan delivered two addresses at the “Ministry of Hope Conference,” a global Catholic forum on mental health held Nov. 5-7 in Rome, organized by the International Association of Catholic Mental Health Ministers with the patronage of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.
Pope Leo’s four favorite films November 14, 2025By John Mulderig OSV News Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, Vatican, World News In the lead-up to Pope Leo XIV’s Nov. 15 meeting with a group of Hollywood actors and directors, the Vatican offered an insight into the American-born pontiff’s cinematic taste by publishing a short list of his favorite films. Despite its brevity, the collection of four movies covers quite a lot of thematic and tonal territory.
Outgoing USCCB president on leadership, Eucharistic revival and the American pope November 13, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, World News OSV News, which interviewed Archbishop Broglio every fall during his presidential tenure, sat down with him one last time Nov. 12 before he exited the role officially at the conclusion of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Nov. 10-13 plenary assembly.
Catholics for Choice displays controversial billboard in Baltimore November 13, 2025By Katie V. Jones Catholic Review Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life “It’s highly offensive and disrespectful,” said Davis, a parishioner of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer in Rosedale, a worship site of St. Michael the Archangel in Overlea. “It’s totally misleading.”
8 ways to love and serve the poor following Pope Leo’s ‘Dilexi Te’ November 13, 2025By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, World News Everyday Catholics can love and accompany those in need, according to experts that directly serve or advocate for those struggling with poverty.
U.S. bishops approve ‘special pastoral message’ in Baltimore on immigration November 12, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a “special pastoral message on immigration” Nov. 12, voicing “our concern here for immigrants” at their annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.
New USCCB president Coakley talks immigration, Vigano criticism, lifting up saints November 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected as the next president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He succeeds Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who has served in that office since 2022, at the end of the bishops’ Nov. 10-13 fall plenary.
Bishops approve new National Eucharistic Congress for summer 2029 November 12, 2025By Gretchen R. Crowe OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Eucharist, News, World News The U.S. bishops have given the green light to hold the 11th National Eucharistic Congress in the summer of 2029, in a Nov. 12 vote on the final public day of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Fall Plenary Assembly.
USCCB has ‘balanced budget’ for now, but priorities, resources under review November 12, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is on solid financial footing, having restructured some operations while weathering the end of key federal refugee resettlement contracts — but changes in resource allocations may be on the horizon, said the conference’s budget chair.
