Popular Elvis tribute artist spreads the faith as deacon in Newark Archdiocese October 20, 2024By Sean Quinn OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, deacons, News, World News Deacon Liguori does not believe he is “The King” reincarnated. Yet if you ask his fans, they’ll tell you that may be the best way to describe him.
British Catholics welcome cardinal appointment for Dominican who is UK’s best known preacher October 20, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, World News British Catholics have welcomed the appointment of Father Timothy Radcliffe, their country’s best known Dominican preacher, as a cardinal, predicting it will raise their church’s profile at home and abroad.
‘High-time’ for lay men, women to become evangelizers, missionary says October 20, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Missions, News, World News As the Catholic Church commemorates World Mission Sunday Oct. 20, Divine Word Father Victor Roche, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, said Catholics should not only reflect on the work carried out by priests and men and women religious, but also on their own personal calling to be missionaries in their own country.
Catholic’s ministry is collecting used religious objects to give to churches in need of them October 19, 2024By Mike Latona OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News St. Mary Recycle Mission Group is operated by Kimberly Walters, a Catholic who formerly lived in the Diocese of Rochester and attended church at Rochester’s Our Lady of Victory Parish.
Men grieve ‘shared suffering’ miscarriage differently than women, but can be overlooked October 19, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News How miscarriage affects fathers and how that affects their relationships is an often overlooked aspect of this ministry’s developing landscape, several experts told OSV News.
Kenyan missionary in Diocese of Rochester hopes to ‘give back’ to church October 19, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Missions, News, World News As Catholics worldwide prepare to commemorate World Mission Sunday, a missionary priest in the Diocese of Rochester, New York, said his work has given him the opportunity to give back what he received in his youth in Kenya.
Roberto Navarro reaches dreams through commitment to serve and faith in God October 18, 2024By Marietha Góngora V. OSV News Filed Under: Hispanic Ministry, News, Social Justice, World News Roberto Navarro dreams of one day eradicating hunger, as his work involves “advocating for bills that are important to help our neediest brothers and sisters around the world,” he explained. He and his team advocate for Congress to pass (and maintain) the foreign financial aid budget.
Synod leaders share lessons learned in listening with U.S. students October 18, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Colleges, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The listening that has been part of the Synod of Bishops changes people, can change the Catholic Church and can change the world for the better, four synod members told U.S. university students in Rome.
Celebration of Ethel Kennedy’s life recalls her strong faith, human rights work, humor October 18, 2024By Mark Zimmermann OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News In the majestic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington during an Oct. 16 celebration of life for Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the singer Stevie Wonder honored his friend by singing the Our Father accompanied by a harpist, and then leading the congregation in a rousing version of “Isn’t She Lovely.”
Cardinal Rys: The church of ‘we’ saves community from ‘clerical narcissism’ October 18, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, Vocations, World News Opening a new academic year at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lódz posed “the most important question in the church” today for him: “How to be a missionary synodal church?”
Cardinal says bishop’s conference isn’t place for ‘doctrinal teaching’ October 18, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Bishops, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News While some media reported a move at the Synod of Bishops to allow every national bishops’ conference to make Catholic doctrine, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., said that was not precisely what he heard.
Jesus ‘brings us to his heart, brings us with him to heart of God,’ archbishop tells congress in Ocean City October 18, 2024By Connie Connolly OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News In just 45 minutes, Archbishop Richard G. Henning presented salvation history according to sacred Scripture in an engaging keynote address Oct. 5, during the Eucharistic Congress sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington.
