Extension honors Houston Catholic family with immigrant roots for serving church, community March 21, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News A Catholic family whose forebears immigrated to Texas from Czechoslovakia, lost everything in the Great Depression, experienced homelessness and went on to start what is now one of the largest companies in the Southwest has been honored by the Catholic Extension Society with its eighth annual Houston Spirit of Francis Award.
Pope Francis’ 12-year papacy examined for impact on migration March 21, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Catholic theologians and other experts discussed the impact of Pope Francis’ pontificate on issues, particularly migration, as the pope remained in the hospital during a March 19 panel hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
Speakers: Church has role in fight against AI-generated exploitation March 21, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: AI, Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church needs to expand its safeguarding efforts to include the new threats and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence, top organizers of a Vatican conference said.
St. Peter’s Basilica becomes a ‘fixable,’ explorable Minecraft world March 21, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry Students around the world now have a chance to be an explorer-restorer of the 519-year-old basilica thanks to a new online educational opportunity created by Minecraft Education, Microsoft’s game-based learning platform, and with the help of St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican City State.
Lenten lectures are back at Notre Dame, marking a ‘grand retour’ of a Parisian classic March 20, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Lent, News, World News The traditional “Lenten Conferences” resumed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this Lenten season, for the first time since the fire of April 15, 2019.
Myanmar junta allegedly torches Catholic cathedral in Kachin March 20, 2025By OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News The military junta in Myanmar’s strife-torn Kachin state allegedly burned down a Catholic cathedral dedicated to St. Patrick on the eve of the revered saint’s feast.
Kansas archbishop sues Satanists over alleged theft of Eucharist for ‘black mass’ March 20, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has filed a motion for the return of the Eucharist, a consecrated host and consecrated wine a Satanic group claims to have stolen, with the archbishop stating that all sacred species are the property of the Catholic Church.
CRS urges U.S. restore ‘life-saving and life-giving assistance’ after Rubio review March 20, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News Baltimore-based CRS said the “termination of dozens of CRS’ life-saving projects,” including 11 operating under humanitarian waivers, “will permanently cut off critical aid to more than 20 million people worldwide.”
Former priest, ex-teacher charged with sex assault of minor in Delaware diocese in mid-1990s March 20, 2025By Joseph P. Owens OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News An 80-year-old former priest of the Diocese of Wilmington and a 57-year-old ex-teacher in local Catholic schools have been charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the mid-1990s, the Delaware attorney general announced in a news release March 17.
Flannery O’Connor’s 100th birthday parties celebrate author’s quirks, talents — and love of birds March 20, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Books, News, Uncategorized, World News Long before Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at 207 E. Charlton St., her childhood home in Savannah.
Marquette gets multimillion-dollar gift to boost natural family planning institute March 20, 2025By Zoey Maraist OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, National Black Congress, News, World News Marquette University in Milwaukee received recently a $7.5 million gift to endow its Institute for Natural Family Planning within the College of Nursing. The Jesuit university revealed Feb. 27 the gift came from the Richard L. Boland Love for Life Foundation, Inc., also known as the Betty and Dick Boland Foundation.
Pope’s doctors report more improvement, but no date for his release March 19, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis no longer needs the “noninvasive mechanical ventilation” he has used most nights since experiencing a breathing “crisis” Feb. 28, his doctors reported in a bulletin released by the Vatican press office March 19.
