Report: Graduate, college-level seminary enrollments continued to slide September 30, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Graduate-level and college-level enrollment at Catholic seminaries in the U.S. were down significantly in the 2024-2025 academic year, while high school seminary enrollment has held steady, according to statistics released by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in its Fall 2025 CARA Report.
Hope, healing highlight prayer service and Mass a month since Annunciation shooting September 30, 2025By Joe Ruff OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Sharing hugs, tears and smiles, more than 150 people gathered on the lawn outside Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis for a morning prayer service Sept. 27.
Catholic bishops mourn deadly attack on Latter-day Saints church in Michigan September 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Several Catholic bishops are expressing their sorrow over a deadly attack at a Michigan house of worship, which took place just weeks after a mass shooting at a Minnesota Catholic church.
Pope will declare St. John Henry Newman doctor of the church Nov. 1 September 29, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV announced he will proclaim St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church Nov. 1 during the Jubilee of the World of Education.
Pope’s communications day theme focuses on using media responsibly September 29, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Journalism, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV, the object of dozens of “deepfake” videos, has chosen “Preserving human voices and faces” as the theme for the Catholic Church’s celebration of World Communications Day in 2026.
Pope encourages European parliamentarians to pursue ‘healthy secularism’ September 29, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV encouraged members of the European Parliament to pursue “a healthy secularism” that maintains the distinction between religions and governments.
As Nantes cathedral opens after 2020 fire, Notre Dame in Paris presents reopened towers September 29, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News The northwestern French city of Nantes waited for this moment for five long years and on Sept. 27, reopened its cathedral after the 2020 arson attack. The church celebrated with local and state officials present, and topped its reopening with ballet dancers flying on the cathedral’s square.
U.S. pilgrims at Jubilee of Catechists have private audience with pope September 29, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News Among the estimated 20,000 pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Catechists, a group of three dozen from the United States had their own private audience with Pope Leo XIV.
Catholic high school boys choir wows in ‘America’s Got Talent’ season finale September 29, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News A Catholic high school boys’ choir from Chicago made it to the top five on the season finale of “America’s Got Talent” Sept. 24, prompting a message of pride and encouragement from Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich.
Talks reveal heroism, humor and holiness of Irish Jesuit killed in WWI, admired by saints September 29, 2025By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, World News Organizers of the sainthood cause for an Irish Jesuit priest who was killed while trying to save two Protestant soldiers on a World War I battlefield, and was also admired by other saints, have planned talks in the Chicago area and northern Indiana churches in late October.
Clarence Thomas discusses originalism and Catholicism in CUA law event September 29, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discussed topics including originalism and his own Catholic faith during remarks Sept. 25 at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.
Pope chooses theme for World Day of the Sick 2026 September 29, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced Sept. 26 that Pope Leo XIV had chosen the theme for the church’s next celebration of the World Day of the Sick: “The compassion of the Samaritan: Loving by bearing the pain of the other.”
