Missouri-based network connects abortion survivors worldwide June 9, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Melissa Ohden, who joined the Catholic Church in 2014, belongs to St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Gladstone, Mo. She leads the Abortion Survivors Network, the world’s only organization dedicated to providing “a safe place for (abortion) survivors to finally share their story, be themselves, be vulnerable, to finally heal.”
Pope on liquid diet, calls mother of baby he baptized in March June 9, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Among the many messages Pope Francis has been getting over the course of his first full day recovering from abdominal surgery at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, his favorite, so far, was a large card from a Peruvian family he met during his last hospital stay.
Survey: permanent deacon numbers in U.S. expected ‘to remain stable’ but continue slow decline June 9, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News Results of an annual survey on the permanent diaconate of the U.S. Catholic Church show the estimated number of deacons in active ministry was 13,695 in 2022, the lowest since 2011.
Trip to Uvalde, Texas, leaves Capitol Hill pastor ‘still processing’ how deep community’s trauma remains June 9, 2023By Mark Pattison OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Father Dan Carson was one of 14 Catholic clergy and lay leaders to spend three days in the town where feelings are still raw and wounds of all kinds are slowly healing from a mass shooting at a grade school one year ago that claimed the lives of 19 students and two of their teachers.
Pope doing well after abdominal surgery, asks for continued prayers June 8, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis had a restful, peaceful first night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital after a successful three-hour operation June 7 for a hernia.
During Super Bowl winners’ White House visit, Kansas City Chiefs kicker champions pro-life message June 8, 2023By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Sports, World News The Kansas City Chiefs were honored with a June 6 invitation to the White House by President Joe Biden following their victory in this year’s Super Bowl. The visit took an unexpected turn as Harrison Butker, the kicker who secured the game-winning field goal, used the occasion to shed light on the most vulnerable.
Ukraine dam destruction a ‘diabolical act’ in genocidal war, says archbishop, Ukrainian Catholics June 8, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News The destruction of a dam and hydroelectric power plant in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine marks a “dastardly and diabolical act” that “defies imagination,” Archbishop Borys Gudziak, metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., told OSV News.
Richmond bishop condemns deadly, ‘callous act’ of gun violence at graduation ceremony June 8, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News The June 6 shooting took place in a park outside a theater that hosted Huguenot High School’s graduation ceremony, two blocks from the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.
Catholic-Jewish experts hail new White House strategy to counter antisemitism June 7, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, World News Experts in Jewish-Catholic relations are hailing a newly unveiled plan by the Biden administration to combat antisemitism, released amid a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in recent years.
Pope to undergo surgery for hernia, expected to remain in hospital June 7, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis was scheduled to undergo surgery at Rome’s Gemelli hospital June 7 to treat a hernia that had developed at an incision of a previous operation, the Vatican said.
Newark cardinal: Americans should exercise ‘voluntary self-restraint’ on gun ownership for common good June 7, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark recently published a letter calling on Americans to voluntary “self-restraint” on gun ownership as part of their response to rising gun violence.
Papal envoy meets Zelenskyy in Kyiv amid destruction of critical dam that flooded south of country June 6, 2023By Lilia Kovalyk-Vasiuta OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Pope Francis’ peace envoy to Ukraine, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, was finishing his two-day visit to Ukraine June 6. He met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid breaking news of the destruction of a critical dam and hydroelectric power plant along the front lines in southern Ukraine that Zelenskyy blamed on “Russian terrorists.”
