Vatican sees slight increase in donations to pope’s charity fund July 1, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Giving, News, Vatican, World News Donations to the annual Peter’s Pence collection, which supports the work of the Roman Curia and funds the charitable activity of the pope, went up in 2023, with increased donations from dioceses, foundations, private donors and religious orders, the Vatican said.
Pope praises release of two Ukrainian priests from Russian captivity July 1, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis prayed in thanksgiving for the release of two Ukrainian Catholic priests who were held in Russian captivity for more than 19 months, calling on Christians to pray for the release of all prisoners of war.
Pope: Heaven is for ‘everyone, everyone, everyone’ July 1, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Heaven is not a secure vault protected from outsiders but a “hidden treasure” that is reached by cultivating virtues, Pope Francis said.
Open the church’s doors to evangelization, pope tells new archbishops July 1, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Reflecting on the Apostle Peter’s liberation from prison after an angel opened his cell, the pope said God “is the one who sets us free and opens the way before us” in his homily during Mass for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul June 29.
Biden, Trump spar over abortion, migrants and each other in first presidential debate June 28, 2024By Kate Scanlon Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, World News President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, participated in the first general election debate of the 2024 cycle on June 27, including on topics like abortion, immigration, foreign policy, and the economy.
Supreme Court’s narrow ruling allows abortion for medical emergencies in Idaho for now June 28, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on June 27 dismissed a case concerning abortions for medical emergencies in Idaho, sending the case back to a lower court without resolving the central question of whether a conflict exists between Idaho’s abortion restrictions and federal law governing emergency health care.
US bishops’ conference confirms cuts to key department tasked with social policy, initiatives June 27, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Days after they gathered for their annual spring meeting, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference has laid off an unspecified number of employees as part of the reorganization of a key department tasked with promoting awareness of and advocacy for Catholic social teaching at home and abroad.
Archbishop Gänswein, former papal secretary, named nuncio to Baltic states June 26, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Despite tensions with Pope Francis which have sometimes boiled over into public view, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary, will become the pope’s representative to the Baltic states.
Supreme Court to hear challenge to state law banning transgender interventions for minors June 25, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on June 24 agreed to hear a challenge to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender, the high court’s first major step toward weighing in on the controversial issue.
Pope confirms Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized ‘soon’ June 24, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Francis said that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati “will be a saint soon.”
Florida Catholic’s Ana Rodriguez-Soto wins 2024 St. Francis de Sales Award June 24, 2024By Maria-Pia Negro Chin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News Ana Rodriguez-Soto, who recently retired as editor of the Florida Catholic, Miami edition, is the recipient of the 2024 St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Media Association.
Apostolate to pregnant women in need poised to spread mission as lay association of faithful June 24, 2024By Mike May OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Now — with the Vatican’s recent approval of the organization as a lay association of the faithful — Mater Filius is poised to spread its mission as part of the Catholic Church’s pro-life outreach.
