Pro-life sidewalk counseling highlighted in potential high court cases, federal pardons November 27, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon whether to hear a pair of First Amendment cases seeking to strike down so-called “bubble zones” for pro-life demonstrators outside abortion clinics.
Illinois pastor, seminarian dismissed after admitting sexual relationship, drug use November 27, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News An Illinois pastor has resigned after admitting to a long-running sexual relationship with a transitional deacon that included the use of illegal drugs.
Georgetown U. president steps down for health reasons in ‘most difficult decision’ ever November 27, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News The longest-serving president of Georgetown University will step down after 23 years for health reasons.
U.S. bishops announce Prayer Vigil for Life to take place Jan. 23-24 November 26, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The annual Prayer Vigil for Life will take place Jan. 23-24, 2025, the U.S. bishops’ conference announced Nov. 22.
Conference series highlights why the Catholic imagination matters November 26, 2024By Michael Mastromatteo OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, World News Anyone hopeful for a stronger Catholic presence in contemporary arts and letters can only be heartened in the aftermath of the recent Catholic Imagination Conference at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
From Venezuela to Minnesota: Diocesan priest welcomes members of his family to U.S. November 26, 2024By Amber Walling OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Venezuela is the top South American country for migration and is fourth in the world with 13.2 migrants for every 1,000 citizens. One of the most prevalent reasons for migration is widespread food insecurity.
Ratzinger Prize winner draws from late pope’s engagement with modernity November 26, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News “We don’t have another theologian, it seems to me, that has been as engaged with modernity as Benedict,” said Cyril O’Regan, a co-winner of the 2024 Ratzinger Prize, often dubbed the “Nobel Prize of Theology.”
Archbishop Gudziak: Ukraine remembers Soviet-era genocide amid ‘new genocidal war’ November 25, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, War in Ukraine, World News The Ukrainian global community is marking the 91st anniversary of a Soviet-era genocide, even “as a new genocidal war is being perpetrated against Ukraine and its people,” said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Cardinal Ayuso, promoter of interreligious dialogue, dies at 72 November 25, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Obituaries, Vatican, World News panish Cardinal Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, who dedicated his priestly life and ministry to building bridges between Catholics and Muslims, died in Rome Nov. 25 at the age of 72.
Final synod document is magisterial, must be accepted, pope says November 25, 2024By Justin McLellan Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News Doubling down on the centrality of synodality in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that it is now up to local churches to accept and implement proposals from the final document approved the Synod of Bishops on synodality.
Pope declares Spanish mystic ‘blessed,’ advances other sainthood causes November 25, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Using what the Vatican called an “equipollent” or equivalent beatification, Pope Francis recognized as “blessed” a 15th-century Spanish abbess, mystic and preacher.
Churches, faith groups join forces in Britain against ‘deceptive’ assisted suicide bill November 25, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Churches and faith groups across the United Kingdom have condemned a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide and stepped up efforts to block its Nov. 29 approval by parliamentarians.
