Rosary, community help Minnesota family through grief over loss of son September 23, 2023By Dianne Towalski OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Earlier this summer, Jeff Gerads volunteered to construct a giant rosary for the Harvest of Hope Area Catholic Community. When he invited his sons Ethan, 16, and Owen, 12, to help, he could never have known how special that rosary would become.
Vatican astronomer helps NASA in historic mission to study asteroid September 23, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Jesuit Brother Bob Macke, a Vatican astronomer and meteorite expert, has built a custom device for studying material from the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.
Shrine to only approved U.S. Marian apparition gets ready for first solemnity September 23, 2023By Sam Lucero OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments On Oct. 9, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion celebrates the 164th anniversary of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s second and third apparitions to Adele Brise — the only approved Marian apparitions in the United States. While the observance has long been a yearly event, this is the first year the liturgy is marked as a solemnity.
France’s reactions to pope’s upcoming visit are mixed; some see ‘Fratelli Tutti’ momentum September 23, 2023By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News In a rather unusual moment for secular France, the president of the country confirmed he will attend Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in Marseille Sept. 23.
U.S. Catholic archbishop receives award from Ukraine’s Zelenskyy September 22, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Archeparchy of Philadelphia received the Cross of Ivan Mazepa from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sept. 21 in Washington. Zelenskyy visited the U.S. capital for meetings after addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York Sept. 19.
People have a duty to save migrants in danger of drowning, pope says September 22, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News At a moving ceremony at the edge of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Pope Francis led a moment of silence for the countless lives lost in its blue but treacherous waters.
Arriving in Marseille, pope prepares to speak up for protecting migrants September 22, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis arrived in the ancient port city of Marseille Sept. 22 for a two-day visit that was to focus on the plight of migrants and other opportunities and threats facing the Mediterranean Sea and the nations along its shores.
Florida, Michigan bishops decry ‘grave,’ ‘appalling’ abortion efforts underway in their states September 22, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Florida’s Catholic bishops Sept. 16 alerted the faithful to an “extremely grave initiative” underway in their state that “seeks to erase pro-life protections by banning government regulation of abortion in our state constitution.”
Justice Barrett discusses originalism, praises ‘academic freedom’ at CUA law event September 22, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett discussed the importance of academic freedom and offered career advice in remarks to law students at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in Washington Sept. 21.
Indiscriminate destruction in Ukraine is a ‘crime,’ pope says September 22, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News In a message to an ecumenical meeting at a historic Benedictine abbey in Hungary, Pope Francis said Russia’s war on Ukraine is a reminder of what the Second Vatican Council taught: “Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.”
Catholic groups underscore urgency of United Nations ‘Climate Ambition Summit’ September 22, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News The U.N. described the Climate Ambition Summit as “a broad global coalition of ‘movers and doers'” including “politicians, business and civil society” that represents a “critical political milestone for demonstrating that there is collective global will to accelerate the pace and scale of a just transition to a more equitable renewable-energy based, climate-resilient global economy.”
House lawmakers grill Garland over retracted FBI memo on ‘radical traditionalist Catholics’ September 22, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Congress, World News Attorney General Merrick Garland was questioned about a controversial and retracted FBI memo that suggested some “radical traditionalist” Catholics pose threats of racial or ethnically motivated violence during Sept. 20 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.
