Debt relief: Biblical jubilee concern is focus of Holy Year 2025, too June 8, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Proclaiming the Jubilee 2025, Pope Francis appealed to the world’s wealthiest nations to “acknowledge the gravity of so many of their past decisions and determine to forgive the debts of countries that will never be able to repay them.”
GIVEN forum equips young women to pursue their unique callings June 8, 2024By Lauretta Brown OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Over 300 Catholic women from all walks of life will gather in Washington from June 8 to 12 to participate in the GIVEN Art of Accompaniment Mentoring Program and the Catholic Women’s Leadership Forum. It will be the fifth GIVEN forum since the group’s founding; the previous forums were held in 2019, 2020 (online), 2021 and 2022.
On historic D-Day anniversary, Catholic veteran says faith has always helped him in ‘tight corner’ June 7, 2024By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As Western heads of state and government gathered in northern France to mark 80 years since the monumental D-Day invasion that helped secure victory in World War II, one veteran, now age 100, had special memories to share.
Amid prayers for peace, Vatican-Israeli tensions were on display June 7, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, World News The Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s massive military response in Gaza have led to strong papal pleas for peace but also to Vatican-Israeli diplomatic tensions.
Diocesan hermit-theologian warned bishop ‘transgender hermit’ proposal would ‘misuse’ church law June 7, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News A Kentucky bishop’s decision to endorse a hermit who publicly identified as transgender has raised a number of questions and concerns — particularly from another diocesan hermit and theologian, who had counseled the bishop in writing nearly two years before that approving the individual as a hermit would “misuse” canon law governing that vocation, and set a precedent that could endanger the future of eremitical life itself.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage ‘is so radical and so crazy, and I’m glad,’ pilgrim says June 7, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News On their third week of the pilgrimage, however, the perpetual pilgrims — young adults traveling the full lengths of the four National Eucharistic Pilgrimage routes with the Eucharist — reported meeting enthusiasm at every stop since setting out from points in California, Connecticut, Minnesota and Texas May 18-19.
Pope thanks priests for faithful, generous dedication to their flock June 7, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News While Pope Francis often raises warnings against “clericalism” and “spiritual worldliness” in the priesthood, he expressed his deep gratitude and affection for priests and deacons around the world for what he called their generous and faith-filled dedication to their communities.
Ex-Vatican employee arrested for trying to sell Bernini manuscript June 7, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News A former employee of St. Peter’s Basilica is in Vatican custody after allegedly being caught in a Vatican-orchestrated sting operation involving the sale of a manuscript by Italian baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Bill making contraception a federal right fails to advance in Senate June 7, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, U.S. Congress, World News Legislation to protect access to contraception nationwide failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on June 5 in an expected outcome.
A Christian community listens to kids, accompanies the elderly, pope says June 7, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis led his “School of Prayer” outside on a concrete driveway leading to a series of parking garages under a 30-family condominium on the outskirts of Rome.
Catholic group amends HHS lawsuit after final rule issued on health care and gender identity June 7, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Religious Freedom, World News The release of a final rule for a federal regulation governing health care and gender identity has prompted the Catholic Benefits Association to amend its ongoing lawsuit against the Biden administration challenging the policy.
Wildlife crossings connect practical ecology needs, Catholic creation care June 7, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Environment, News, World News The largest wildlife crossing in the world — the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, christened after the foundation providing major funding — has just begun construction in Agoura Hills, Calif., some 30 miles west of Los Angeles.
