Passions flare as Supreme Court hears case with major impact on homelessness policy April 23, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on April 22 heard a case concerning the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping and their impact on people who are homeless.
Pope tells seminarians to integrate spiritual, intellectual lives April 23, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Candidates to the priesthood must integrate their spiritual, intellectual and community lives so they become pastors who can respond to the needs of their communities, Pope Francis said.
Historians’ work should lead to dialogue, truth, pope says April 23, 2024By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Historians serve the common good when they seek historical truth and not an ideological interpretation of events, Pope Francis said.
Catholic experts say U.S. has just one path out of fentanyl crisis April 23, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, U.S. Congress, World News Catholics working to address the nation’s fentanyl problem told OSV News a new congressional report naming China — and blaming its government — as the key source of the drug is important but old news, and that healing rising rates of addiction ultimately demands divine assistance.
Haiti violence, lawlessness forces longtime U.S. missionary priest to evacuate April 22, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, World News As Haiti’s capital spirals into lawlessness, a longtime U.S. missionary has been forced to evacuate — while Haitian Catholics in the U.S. are doubling down on prayer for their troubled homeland.
Build church unity, favor reconciliation, pope tells pilgrims April 22, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Pius VII, a prisoner of Napoleon from 1809 to 1814, endured humiliation but successfully resisted all attempts to fracture the unity of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said.
Ave Maria professor: Earth Day needs Catholics’ full engagement and hopeful vision April 22, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, World News Catholic university professor Samuel Shephard suggests that Catholics can bring a unique viewpoint to Earth Day, celebrated April 22, because “as Catholics, we can understand we’re doing that as stewards of creation.”
Jesus laid down his life out of love for each person, pope says April 22, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News When Jesus called himself the “good shepherd,” he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important to him and “that he thinks of each of us as the love of his life,” Pope Francis said.
‘Power of prayer’ behind passage of U.S. aid to Ukraine bill, say Ukrainian Catholics April 22, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S. are breathing a sigh of relief and prayers of gratitude, after a bill for aid to Ukraine cleared the House of Representatives following months of delay, political infighting and even openly anti-Ukrainian sentiment among some lawmakers.
Foreign aid deal passes House after months of negotiations April 22, 2024By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News A bipartisan coalition the U.S. House of Representatives, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., voted April 20 to approve a $95 billion package providing aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and other U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific region, over the objections of some far-right lawmakers who indicated they would attempt to remove Johnson from his role over the deal.
Pope’s representative to U.S. warns of ‘auto-referential’ church April 22, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more “auto-referential” and withdraw itself from the international stage and universal church, Pope Francis’ representative to the United States said.
Faith and peace meet in papal diplomacy, archbishop says April 22, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The pope’s diplomats are men of faith located all over the world to uphold the pope’s positions on international matters, to edify the universal church and to serve the Gospel, said Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister.
