Pope tells lawyers he’s writing a new document on the environment August 21, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Thanking a group of European lawyers for their attention to environmental protection laws, Pope Francis said he was preparing another document on the subject.
‘Rigidity is bad, but firmness is good,’ pope says at Angelus August 21, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Christians must stand firm in their faith but that is not the same as being rigid and unwilling to bend out of compassion for another, Pope Francis said.
Texas Carmelites may be excommunicated after public letter rejecting Bishop Olson’s authority August 20, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A community of cloistered Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, said they no longer recognize the authority of Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, claiming that he has interfered with and humiliated them since initiating an investigation into their prioress in late April.
Maryland, New Jersey cases on public schools’ trans student policy, parental rights get day in court August 20, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News A federal appeals court threw out a Maryland lawsuit Aug. 14 from parents challenging guidelines barring teachers from notifying parents if a student identifies as transgender. In New Jersey, a case is under consideration by a judge after the state government objected to three Monmouth County school districts implementing new policies requiring school staff to notify parents in such cases.
Letters reveal disgraced Alabama priest believes he is married to 18-year-old and their running away is ‘Jesus’ will’ August 18, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News An Alabama priest disgraced after abandoning his parish to travel to Italy with an 18-year-old woman described himself as “married” to her in a Valentine’s Day letter.
‘Oppenheimer’ gives Catholics opportunity to explain injustice of nuclear weapons August 18, 2023By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb which then led to the dropping of two such bombs over Japan in the twilight days of World War II.
For Virginia priest, ‘ale-vangelizing’ is chance to chat over a beer, meet people where they are August 17, 2023By Kristen L. Byrd OSV News Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, World News This spring Trapezium Brewing Co. in Petersburg, Va., launched the second release of his signature “Father Brian’s Bourbon Barrel Brown Ale,” where hundreds of family, friends and past parishioners toasted the beloved priest.
‘Miraculous’ survival of Maui Catholic church seen as sign of hope amid wildfire destruction August 16, 2023By Patrick Downes OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News “For us, it’s like a miracle,” Msgr. Terrence Watanabe, the Honolulu Diocese’s vicar of Maui and Lanai, said about Maria Lanakila Catholic Church in the town of Lahaina being seemingly untouched by the fierce Maui wildfires Aug. 8-9.
Latest Trump indictment alleges ‘criminal enterprise’ to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results August 16, 2023By Kate Scanlon Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted in Georgia Aug. 14 over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, prosecuting him under an anti-racketeering statute alleging he and his aides conducted a “criminal enterprise” to keep him in office despite his election loss to President Joe Biden.
What the papacy of John Paul I, ‘The September Pope,’ could have looked like August 16, 2023By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Besides getting a pope with a great smile and a winning demeanor, the cardinals who elected him Aug. 26, 1978, unwittingly picked a man with health issues that only 33 days later would lead to his death, making his pontificate one of the shortest ever.
RFK Jr. offers support to banning abortion after first trimester, then walks it back August 14, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered his support to a federal abortion ban limiting the procedure to around the first trimester of pregnancy, but quickly backtracked after earning the praise of a pro-life group.
‘Unintentional antisemitism’: Catholics make common mistakes about Jesus’ Jewish identity, says scholar August 14, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News Confusion about Jesus’ Jewish identity persists, despite almost six decades of Catholic Church teaching on how to present Jews and Judaism in catechesis and preaching.
