Pope Francis expels more Sodalitium members as calls increase for group’s suppression October 22, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis has expelled two more members and upheld the expulsion of one member of the controversial lay movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae due to allegations of sexual abuse, abuse of power and financial malfeasance.
Lima archbishop says movement with U.S. ties should be suppressed October 22, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News A Peru-based Catholic movement active across Latin America and the United States is more of a “political project” than a religious movement, said the archbishop of the Peruvian capital where the movement is based.
Vatican and China renew, extend agreement on naming bishops October 22, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Vatican and the Chinese government are renewing their agreement on the appointment of bishops and extending it from a two-year to a four-year term, both sides announced.
School choice among issues in 2024 ballot referendums in three states October 22, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2024 Election, News, Schools, World News Three states — Nebraska, Kentucky and Colorado — will have ballot measures related to school choice before voters on Nov. 5.
‘Respect Life’ novena highlights gift of life, need for protection October 22, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News The nation’s Catholic bishops are inviting the faithful to join in a novena highlighting the gift of human life, while praying for its protection.
Texas lawmakers scrutinize ‘shaken baby syndrome’ conviction of death row inmate October 22, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Texas lawmakers held a hearing Oct. 21 on the fate of a Texas man whose scheduled execution was halted the previous week after an unprecedented legal effort by members of a state House panel who questioned the evidence behind his conviction.
Authors of journal’s special issue share findings on migrant deaths along the border October 22, 2024By Maria del Pilar Guzman OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Donald Kerwin set the tone for an Oct. 16 webinar on migrant deaths with a clarifying statement: “Accounting for deaths, it means more than accurately counting them or enumerating them. … What it means is identifying decedents, investigating deaths, determining their causes and repatriating remains to loved ones.”
Russian ban of religious websites ‘blocks truth,’ says Ukrainian religious news service editor October 22, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Journalism, News, Religious Freedom, War in Ukraine, World News Russia’s latest blockage of Western religious websites and social media accounts tightens the Kremlin’s chokehold on Russian residents’ information access, the editor of a Ukrainian religious news outlet told OSV News.
‘Terrorists burned everything, but not our faith,’ say Burkina Faso Christians after massacre October 21, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News In an early October massacre, at least 150 people, including many Christians, were killed in northeastern Burkina Faso’s town of Manni, in what turned out to be a brutal terrorist rampage.
Cardinal Fernández updates synod on study group focusing on women’s roles October 21, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News Pope Francis decided the question of ordaining women deacons was not to be discussed at the 2024 Synod of Bishops, and he directed a synod-related study group on women’s ministries not to explore the matter, according to the Vatican’s doctrinal chief.
Indigenous priest shot dead in Mexico’s increasingly violent Chiapas state October 21, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News An Indigenous Tzotzil priest and peace activist was murdered after celebrating Sunday Mass in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, where the Catholic Church has denounced government inaction in the face of rising violence.
Vatican safeguarding body meets with doctrine dicastery during plenary October 21, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s safeguarding commission has “an opportunity and obligation to make the church a more Samaritan church,” Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, told commission members during its plenary assembly.
