Vatican theme for World Day of Migrants and Refugees focuses on ‘journey’ February 26, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Catholic Church’s focus for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2024 highlights its need to walk alongside displaced persons and to convey to them God’s presence and guidance along their paths, the Vatican said.
3 years after drug decriminalization, Oregon now faces a state of emergency February 26, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, World News But three years later, a nationwide surge in fentanyl use has collided with Measure 110’s legalized tolerance to create a perfect storm of overburdened social services, policing and community dynamics.
Bernini’s baldachin masterpiece disappears from public view until Holy Year February 25, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Like a giant Tinkertoy construction, a skeletal tower of scaffolding slowly inched its way up the twisting bronze columns of the baldachin over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Subject of a new film, Mother Cabrini left native Italy to serve U.S. immigrants February 25, 2024By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, Saints, World News Mother Cabrini is the subject of “Cabrini,” a new film from Angel Studios directed by Alejandro Monteverde scheduled for nationwide release March 8.
Vatican aims to draw young ‘digital pilgrims’ to Rome’s papal basilicas February 25, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry The Vatican is seeking to draw pilgrims to the four historic papal basilicas scattered around Rome — not physically, but virtually, through a website and podcast aimed at drawing young people into the spiritual depth of Rome’s sacred spaces.
Analysis: Can Catholics stop the tick tock of the Doomsday Clock? February 24, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News While Pope Francis has affirmed the importance of the right to self-defense, he has simultaneously suggested a reassessment of how the concept of just war is used in favor of constructive dialogue to resolve conflicts.
How a shy Irish farm boy turned Florida pastor led his parish to change countless lives in Uganda February 24, 2024By Laura Dodson OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A shy Irish farm boy taught to be open to God’s gifts and opportunities in every harvest, egg clutch and milk bucket courageously responded yes to God’s call to priesthood.
Zoom Lenten series guides young adults in being ‘mindful’ about media use February 24, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Youth Ministry Sister Nancy Usselmann, a Daughter of St. Paul, who is a widely recognized expert on media literacy, is inviting young adults in their 20s and 30s to take a deep dive this Lent into how to be “media mindful” in their use of media.
Caritas starts developing long-term aid program in Ukraine February 23, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News After two years of supporting communities throughout Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country, the Vatican-based charity confederation Caritas Internationalis is shifting to a long-term response plan to address the humanitarian fallout from the prolonged conflict in Ukraine.
Seven U.S. cardinals pledge to help heal Ukraine’s wounds of war through new fund February 23, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News the Ukrainian Catholic bishops of the U.S. announced that their Metropolia Humanitarian Aid Fund has been restructured as the “Healing of Wounds of the War in Ukraine Fund.”
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to include shrines, secular landmarks, diocesan events February 23, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is a major prelude to the National Eucharistic Congress, which expects to bring together tens of thousands of Catholics July 17-21 in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium for worship, speakers and Eucharist-centered events.
Mid-life crisis? Not for these professionals turned mid-life Franciscans February 23, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News For three Franciscans from the Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe — postulants Jimmy Beh and Thomas Pack and Father Steven Kuehn — joining the 800-plus-year-old religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi was not just a proverbial leap of faith.
