With pope’s support, Vatican to publish document on synod’s final phase July 2, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church’s path toward synodality — a term many in the church had never heard before — his successor has thrown his support behind the last leg of the church’s synodal journey.
Mexican priest shot, gravely injured in the Diocese of Tabasco July 2, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A Mexican priest remains in serious condition after being shot four times while traveling to minister to a sick person — an attack reinforcing Mexico’s reputation as one of the world’s most dangerous for clergy, despite its large Catholic population.
Senate passes Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’; measure heads to House July 1, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News Senate Republicans on July 1 passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would enact key provisions of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda on taxes and immigration, without any Democratic support and losing three members of their ranks.
Longtime head of Polish Catholic news agency resigns, as bishops seek tighter control July 1, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News The veteran head of one of Europe’s largest Catholic news agencies has resigned in protest over proposed church media reforms, accusing his country’s bishops of acting illegally and reviving “solutions known from totalitarian times.”
Pope to Ukrainian Greek Catholics: ‘God will have the last word,’ ‘life will conquer death’ July 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, the faith of Ukrainians is being “sorely tested,” but God “will have the last word, and life will conquer death,” said Pope Leo XIV.
Idaho Catholics unite in prayer for firefighters killed in sniper ambush July 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Two firefighters were killed and a third wounded after a man began shooting at them like a sniper as they responded to a June 29 blaze on Canfield Mountain, located just over 4 miles from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Archbishops must promote unity, seek new ways to share Gospel, pope says June 30, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Archbishops around the world can provide by their example the fraternity and unity in diversity the entire Catholic Church needs today, Pope Leo XIV said.
Slain Minnesota lawmaker, husband remembered for lives lived ‘with purpose, meaning’ June 30, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were shot dead in their home June 14, were remembered at their funeral Mass June 28 for living their lives “with purpose and meaning.”
Experts: Catholic media witness to truth, Gospel and are at ‘kairos moment’ in church June 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News Catholic media play a vital role in bearing truth and witnessing to the Gospel, especially amid the digital age and a crucial moment for the church, said experts during a panel discussion at the 2025 Catholic Media Conference.
NCR news editor Carol Zimmermann wins CMA 2025 St. Francis de Sales Award June 28, 2025By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News Carol Zimmermann, news editor of the National Catholic Reporter, received the 2025 St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Media Association at a lunch on the final day of its annual conference June 24-27 in Phoenix.
Report: US abortions continue post-Dobbs rise in part due to telehealth June 28, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The rate of abortions in the U.S. continued to increase in 2024 following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to a report by #WeCount, a research project by the Society of Family Planning, a group that supports legal abortion.
Science and the stars a call to the spiritual, says Vatican astrophysicist June 27, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, World News The Vatican Observatory attests that “science is not against God” — and the nexus of science and spirituality invites humankind to contemplate the Lord’s wondrous works, said a Jesuit astrophysicist.
