Pope: Places, mentalities must be more receptive to people with disabilities November 29, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Making places more accessible for people with disabilities requires removing physical barriers and adjusting attitudes to be more open and inclusive, Pope Francis said.
Pope cancels Dubai trip although Vatican says his health is improving November 28, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News “With great regret,” Pope Francis has accepted his doctors’ advice to not travel to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 1-3 and is looking at alternative ways the Vatican can participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the director of the Vatican press office said.
Texas immigration bill will likely face legal challenge November 28, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, is expected to sign an immigration bill that would make it a state crime to cross into Texas from Mexico. Catholic organizations including the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops have opposed the legislation.
Ukraine churches remember Moscow’s campaign of ‘death by hunger’ November 28, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Ukrainian church leaders have joined anniversary commemorations of the 1932-1933 Holodomor, or Great Famine, in which millions died in a disaster deliberately engineered by Soviet Union rulers.
Rule of law protects democracy, pope says in message November 28, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News If upholding a nation’s laws is dependent on the politics of those in power or on their opinion about who is and is not deserving of protection, then democracy and justice are threatened, Pope Francis said.
Vatican publishes schedule of papal Christmas liturgies November 28, 2023By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Vatican workers continued to decorate the Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square and to erect a platform for the Nativity scene, the office of papal liturgical ceremonies published the list of holiday Masses and prayer services Pope Francis would celebrate.
Media must show, promote respect for human dignity, pope says November 28, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Vatican, World News An important part of the mission of Catholic media is to forgo the shocking, sensational or superficial when such stories present the people involved as less than human and unworthy of respect, Pope Francis said.
For most families with loved ones still held by Hamas, the painful wait continues November 28, 2023By Rick Snizek OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Kalderon spends most days in Tel Aviv now joining other hostage family members in telling their stories to the media in order to keep the focus on those being held captive amid a destructive air and ground campaign being waged that has also killed thousands of innocent Palestinians caught in the crossfire.
Russian drone damages Kyiv Catholic cathedral November 27, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Russia’s extensive drone attack on Kyiv Nov. 25 damaged the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.
Israel-Hamas truce has been extended by two days; more hostages scheduled to be released November 27, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, World News Qatar’s foreign affairs ministry said Nov. 27 that an agreement has been reached to extend the Israel-Hamas truce for another two days. The announcement was made by a ministry’s spokesperson on X on the final day of a four-day cease-fire in which hostages abducted by Hamas in October have been released in exchange for Palestinian […]
Bishop Barron criticizes synod report’s suggestion scientific advances could shift church morality teaching November 27, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, World News Bishop Robert E. Barron said he is in “frank disagreement” with a section of a report from the Synod on Synodality indicating that scientific advances could prompt “rethinking” of the church’s teaching on sexual morality.
German bishop denounces Polish archbishop for letter to pope protesting Germany’s reform course November 27, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Feature, News, Synodality, World News Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, Germany, has written a letter to his Polish counterpart, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki of Poznan, accusing him of “unbrotherly behavior” and of an “enormous overstepping of his authority.” The Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita published Bishop Bätzing’s letter, dated Nov. 21, on Nov. 27.
