Bishops hear update on plans to implement ministry of lay catechist set forth by pope November 14, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, updated his fellow bishops Nov. 13 in Baltimore on his committee’s plans to implement the ministry of the lay catechist, a ministry set forward by Pope Francis in his May 2021 apostolic letter “Antiquum Ministerium.”
USCCB President: Living the virtues, listening and dialogue are vital to church, society November 14, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrapped up its fall plenary assembly’s final public session Nov. 13 in Baltimore, in which the bishops discussed topics ranging from the recent election, to synodality, to care for the environment, to life issues, including abortion and immigration.
Retired Archbishop Keleher of Kansas City, Kan., dies at age 93 November 14, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, Obituaries, World News Retired Archbishop James P. Keleher of Kansas City died of natural causes in his home at the Santa Marta Retirement Community in Olathe Nov. 9. He was 93.
Selfishness is blocking progress on climate change, cardinal says November 14, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Efforts to slow climate change and mitigate its impact, particularly on the poor, are being thwarted by selfishness, the Vatican secretary of state told world leaders at the COP29 climate conference.
Ousted Texas bishop attacks Pope Francis, accuses U.S. bishops of silence amid ‘false messages’ November 13, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, whom Pope Francis removed from pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, in 2023, read an open letter Nov. 13 in Baltimore asking “what it will take for more than a few bishops to finally speak up against the false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican under the leadership of Pope Francis?”
Biden meets with Trump, his predecessor and successor, at White House November 13, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News President Joe Biden welcomed President-elect Donald Trump to the White House Nov. 13 for an Oval Office visit, a ritual part of the U.S. tradition of a peaceful transfer of power between presidents, and one that Trump declined four years earlier.
British Catholics react to Anglican archbishop’s shock resignation November 13, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News Leading British Catholics have urged their church to avoid involvement in the resignation of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, who quit Nov. 12 after being implicated in a large-scale abuse cover-up.
U.S. bishops approve new ‘mission directive’ to guide conference work November 13, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted Nov. 13 in Baltimore to approve a new “mission directive” for 2025-28, a new way that the conference is presenting its strategic vision for the next four years.
Perpetrators of abuse are clever; vigilance is critical, speakers say November 13, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church needs decisive leadership in creating a safe, caring and welcoming environment for everyone, and it needs constant vigilance against complacency, said several speakers at a Vatican-sponsored safeguarding conference.
Republicans secure majority of U.S. House seats and expected to control U.S. Senate November 13, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News Republicans secured a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives, according to a Nov. 12 projection by data provider Decision Desk HQ, giving President-elect Donald Trump GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress as he begins his second term in January.
U.S. bishops to consider creating task force for synodal implementation November 13, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News The discussion on the floor in Baltimore followed reflections on the recent Synod of Bishops on synodality held in Rome offered by Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, two of the bishop-delegates from the United States.
Traditional Latin Mass will no longer be celebrated at cathedral in Tyler, Texas November 13, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2024, World News, Worship & Sacraments The Mass according to the 1962 Missal will no longer be celebrated at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, Texas, after Nov. 30, but it will continue at a nearby parish in care of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
