What is incorruptibility? Here’s what faith and science have to say November 1, 2025By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Michael S. Carter and other experts in philosophy, science and theology spoke with OSV News about incorruptibility, addressing everything from incorrupt saints and their significance in the Catholic Church to the relationship of faith and science.
Judge orders Trump administration to make SNAP payments with contingency funds October 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News A federal judge in Rhode Island on Oct. 31 blocked the Trump administration from ceasing to pay for federal food assistance during the government shutdown.
Key off-year elections dominated by Trump, ongoing cost-of-living concerns October 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, World News Closely watched off-year elections in several states will offer the first major opportunity for voters to weigh in at the ballot box since President Donald Trump began his second term — with cost-of-living, an area of Catholic social concern, once more playing a role.
It’s Holywins: European Catholics offer a joyful alternative to Halloween October 31, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: News, World News, Youth Ministry Across Europe, Catholic families are turning Halloween into a celebration of light, life and holiness. Known as “Holywins” — a play on “Holy” and “Halloween” — the movement began in Paris in 2002 and has since spread to Poland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and beyond.
Faith thrives in community, not isolation, pope tells young adults October 31, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry Pope Leo XIV encouraged an international group of young adults to reach out to their peers and invite them to be active members of a parish community rather than trying to live their faith alone.
Brazilian cardinal calls for peace, solidarity with poor after deadly police raid October 31, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, World News Brazilian Cardinal Orani João Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro appealed for peace after a police operation targeting a local drug trafficking gang resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred people.
Teaching is ‘great act of love,’ pope tells educators October 31, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Schools, Vatican, World News A human connection of love and care between a teacher and student is a key part of the educational process, Pope Leo XIV said, and one that is even more important at a time when so many students experience fragility.
Vatican announces theme for World Mission Sunday 2026 October 31, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Missions, News, World News When the Catholic Church celebrates World Mission Sunday for the 100th time in 2026, it will focus on theme, “One in Christ, united in mission.”
Proclamation of St. Newman as doctor of church signals Catholic revival at Oxford October 31, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, Saints, World News When St. John Henry Newman is proclaimed a doctor of the church on Nov. 1, staff and students at his old university will be counting on a boost of confidence for Oxford’s once-excluded Catholics.
Recognition of St. Newman is ecumenical celebration, leaders say October 31, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV’s recognition of St. John Henry Newman as a “doctor of the church” will be an ecumenical celebration, a sign of esteem for the excellence and ongoing relevance of his teaching, first as an Anglican and then as a Roman Catholic, said a key figure in preparing the declaration.
Trump administration sets record-low refugee admission cap, with focus on white South Africans October 30, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Trump administration indicated it would restrict the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500, with most of that number to be white South Africans.
Suspect pleads guilty to murder of Nebraska Catholic priest October 30, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News Kierre Williams entered the plea Oct. 28 in Washington County, Nebraska, District Court, admitting to first-degree murder in the 2023 stabbing death of Father Stephen Gutgsell.
