Donald Trump sworn in as 47th president, pledging crackdown on U.S.-Mexico border January 20, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second, nonconsecutive term in the White House Jan. 20, becoming the nation’s 47th president four years after he left office as its 45th.
As ceasefire starts, first Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners return home January 20, 2025By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News In the West Bank, scenes of joy were delayed but the streets erupted in cheers as the first 90 prisoners, mostly women and teens, freed from Israeli prisons, were brought home in white Red Cross buses after midnight Jan. 20 as in the Gaza Strip first caravans of those displaced by 15-month war attempted return to their homes — of which scores are flattened — and first 600 trucks of aid entered the strip.
‘The Rosary in a Year’ podcast: ‘Poco a poco’ to the Lord January 20, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, World News “The Rosary in a Year” chart-topping podcast is a step-by-step journey to a deeper relationship with the Lord, its host told OSV News.
Brooklyn priest who will give benediction at inaugural bonded with Trump over gravesite visit January 19, 2025By Ed Wilkinson OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News Father Frank Mann and Donald Trump, former president and now president-elect, have become so close that the Brooklyn-born priest has been invited to deliver the closing benediction at Trump’s inauguration ceremony Jan. 20 in Washington.
Sister Clare Crockett, who lived ‘exceptional, holy life,’ begins road to sainthood as cause opens January 18, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, Vocations, World News Her wide smile and eyes beaming with joy are a signature of Sister Clare Crockett, a 33-year-old Northern Irish nun, who tragically died in the 2016 Ecuador earthquake.
Notre Dame players head to championship formed by pregame Masses, saint devotions January 17, 2025By John Knebels OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Sports, World News Throughout this season-long journey of excellence that now includes a 13-game winning streak and an opportunity to seize a 12th national title and first since 1988, Notre Dame players and coaches have been besieged by media requests for interviews.
Trump preparing Day 1 wave of executive orders, including on immigration January 17, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News President-elect Donald Trump is preparing a wave of executive orders for his first day in office, including what could constitute dramatic action on deportations as well as other policy items on his agenda.
Gaza ceasefire an ‘encouraging sign of peace’ for the Middle East, U.S. bishop says January 17, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News The negotiations on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the first release of hostages to begin Jan. 19 are seen as an “encouraging sign of peace,” said Bishop A. Elias Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace.
Cardinal blesses livestock and pets at Vatican celebration January 17, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in Italy the traditional date to pray for the protection of one’s pets and livestock is Jan. 17 — the feast of St. Anthony the Abbot.
Rome rabbi accuses pope of ‘selective indignation’ about Gaza January 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News The chief rabbi of Rome said Christian-Jewish dialogue has been a victim of the war unleashed with the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023.
Let hope lead your lives, pope tells seminarians January 17, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News During the Holy Year 2025, which is centered on proclaiming a message of hope, Pope Francis told future priests to let hope be the guiding principle of their lives.
Report: 20 years of data shows clerical abuse allegations down in U.S. January 17, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News A new report confirms OSV News’ previous finding that U.S. Catholic dioceses and eparchies have paid more than $5 billion to settle abuse claims filed over the past two decades — but credible allegations have declined significantly over the same period, with the majority of cases preceding a landmark set of anti-abuse protocols established by the U.S. bishops in 2002.
