Vatican gardeners plant botanical reproduction of pope’s coat of arms May 31, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News Workers spent about two weeks planting and rearranging evergreens, flowers and plants to complete a gigantic botanical reproduction of Pope Leo’s shield on the sloped lawn in front of the Vatican’s governing office.
Missionaries of Mercy’s role is to show face of God ‘is love and mercy,’ says Kentucky pastor May 31, 2025By Elizabeth Wong Barnstead OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Missionaries of Mercy are priests given faculties to absolve penitents of certain sins which are otherwise reserved to the Holy Father to absolve, due to their seriousness. These include the profanation of the Eucharist and the direct violation of the sacramental seal by a priest hearing a confession.
National pilgrimage carries the Eucharist to Midwest cathedrals and along cow fields May 30, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News The pilgrims’ 10-state route includes daily stops at parishes and other Catholic institutions for Mass, Eucharistic adoration, service and fellowship.
Leaders in foster care, adoption look at post-Roe landscape for their ministries May 30, 2025By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, World News The Henkels are the founders of Springs of Love, a ministry dedicated to raising up more Catholic foster and adoptive families and to supporting those involved through educational programming, small groups and parish care teams.
Bishops speak up after two Catholic priests killed in Kenya May 29, 2025By Fredrick Nzwili OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Catholic bishops in Kenya are demanding a full investigation into the suspicious deaths of two priests within days of each other, calling the incidents deeply disturbing.
Recent East Africa deportations violates court order and human dignity, say advocates May 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Catholic immigration advocates are expressing their concern after the Trump administration apparently deported several immigrants without permanent legal status to East Africa — despite a court order restricting the government from deporting people to nations that are not their countries of origin.
Abortions of unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome up 82 percent in Scotland May 29, 2025By Simon Caldwell OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Scotland has seen a dramatic rise in abortions involving Down syndrome diagnoses, with government figures showing an 82 percent increase since 2021.
Pope visits papal villa, former summer residence in Castel Gandolfo May 29, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV spent several hours May 29 visiting the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology project set up at the papal villa and farm in Castel Gandolfo, as well as the former papal summer residence there.
Holy See calls for respect for human dignity, international law as civilian deaths soar May 29, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News As civilian casualties from multiple conflicts have soared, the Holy See’s diplomat to the United Nations has called for a renewed respect for human dignity and international law, along with restrictions in armaments and a commitment to end the scourge of war.
Future pope helped found Villanovans for Life, marched against Roe v. Wade May 29, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News The four years Robert F. Prevost spent at Villanova University in Philadelphia — from the fall of 1973 until May 1977, when he graduated with a degree in mathematics and began his novitiate with the Augustinian order — included the opening salvos of the pro-life movement.
Missouri Supreme Court leaves abortion ban in place, for now May 29, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News The Missouri Supreme Court on May 27 overturned a pair of lower court rulings that had blocked the state’s abortion restrictions, effectively leaving its ban in place — for now.
20 days into new papacy, clues to Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style may lie in Chiclayo May 28, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown — but his years leading the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, may offer clues. There, he prioritized lay leadership, promoted synodality and worked across ecclesial factions.
