Pope clears way for beatification of Georgia martyrs January 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has formally recognized that five Franciscan missionaries ministering in what is now the U.S. state of Georgia were killed for their faith.
Bishops across Europe remember Holocaust victims, urge world to fight rising antisemitism January 27, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Religious Freedom, World News Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to remember German Nazi-inflicted sufferings and to counter a new rise in antisemitism and extremism.
Catholic communication must engage with the world, pope says January 27, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Journalism, News, Vatican, World News Church communications cannot exist in an “enclosure” in which Catholics merely talk among themselves and do not engage with the outside world, Pope Francis said.
Holocaust cannot be forgotten or denied, pope says January 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News After reciting the Angelus prayer Jan. 26 with visitors in St. Peter’s Square, the pope drew their attention to the following day’s commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Peruvian Cardinal Cipriani rejects abuse allegations as ‘completely false,’ Vatican confirms sanctions still in place January 27, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the first cardinal of Opus Dei, said Jan. 25 that abuse accusations made against him in a Spanish daily El País are “completely false,” while acknowledging he was sanctioned by the Vatican in the past and saying that the sanctions were lifted by Pope Francis.
Vance spars with US bishops over their pushback on Trump’s immigration policy January 27, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Respect Life, World News Vice President JD Vance questioned the motives of the U.S. bishops’ criticism of President Donald Trump’s new immigration policies in a Jan. 26 interview — including raids on churches and schools — asking if they are actually concerned about receiving federal resettlement funding and “their bottom line.”
Trump bars taxpayer funding for abortion in the U.S. or overseas January 27, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News President Donald Trump on Jan. 24 used executive authority to block taxpayer funds from paying for elective abortion procedures both in the U.S. and abroad.
U.S. social ministry gathering summons Catholics to work for Christ’s ‘greater justice’ January 27, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: News, Social Justice, World News Perhaps the largest U.S. assembly of those dedicated to carrying out the social ministry and teaching of the church, the biennial Catholic Social Ministry Gathering takes place Jan. 25-28 in Washington, a day after the national March for Life.
Catholics will accept a common date for Easter in East, West, pope says January 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Easter, News, Vatican, World News Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and the East.
Holocaust survivor honors Polish priest who aided his family January 27, 2025By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News Because of the quiet and heroic intervention of a Polish priest, Andrew Jampoler’s life was saved just as it began. Jampoler, 83, feels a strong debt of gratitude to Father Jozef Czapran who protected him as an infant in Eastern Poland by providing lifesaving papers for him and his family.
Catholic K-12 excellence shows kids ‘the vision of life in Jesus Christ,’ says USCCB leader January 26, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Schools, World News Ahead of national Catholic Schools Week 2025 (Jan. 26-Feb. 1), OSV News spoke with Mary Pat Donoghue, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Catholic Education, for her thoughts on the state of Catholic education in the nation.
Poland’s church deplores government curbs on religious teaching, with lessons cut in half January 26, 2025By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Poland’s Catholic primate has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of pandering to anti-church feeling, after it unveiled new plans to downgrade religious teaching in the traditionally Catholic country.
