Ukrainian bishops say people ‘determined to fight on’ despite worsening conditions January 13, 2023By Jonathan Luxmoore OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News Auxiliary Bishop Sobilo of Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia said that despite worsening conditions following Christmas and the start of the new year, the people in war-torn eastern Ukraine are determined to fight on.
Catholic agencies in California organize outreach, relief for storm victims amid historic rainfall January 13, 2023By Nicholas Wolfram Smith OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Environment, Feature, News, World News Catholic organizations in California, strengthened by years of responding to disasters in the Golden State, responded quickly to bring aid to those affected by the ongoing brutal winter storms.
What’s Lourdes’ secret? The Eucharist, reveals shrine’s chief medical officer January 13, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Each year, some 3 million pilgrims — many with terminal medical conditions — visit the shrine in southwestern France, site of 18 Marian apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous, who was a young teenager in poverty and could neither read nor write at the time.
Illinois bishops, clergy grateful for new assault weapon ban January 12, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News Catholic leaders in Illinois are hailing the state’s newly enacted ban on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and switches.
Read the Gospel, always show people God’s love, pope tells police January 12, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News To understand the Gospel, its beauty and its power, people need to read it, Pope Francis said.
Congress failed to renew expanded child tax credit — can bipartisanship save it? January 12, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News Catholics see hope that bipartisanship in Congress may save a valuable tool in the fight against poverty and even abortion.
U.S. House passes two pro-life measures facing steep odds in the Senate January 12, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News The U.S. House of Representatives Jan. 11 passed two pro-life measures, however neither has a clear path through the U.S. Senate to become law.
Peru’s bishops urge peace amid violent protests January 11, 2023By Barbara Fraser OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Peru’s bishops have called on the country’s government to stop violence that claimed at least 18 lives in anti-government protests Jan. 9-10 and has left more than 40 people dead and hundreds injured since early December.
The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie, other Catholics to speak at March for Life January 11, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Jonathan Roumie, known for his role as “Jesus” in the television series The Chosen, and other Catholic speakers are in the lineup for this year’s 50th annual national March for Life on Jan. 20.
Evangelization is the ‘oxygen’ of Christian life, pope says January 11, 2023By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Beginning a new series of catechesis focused on evangelization and apostolic zeal, the pope said that when Christian life loses its aim of proclaiming the Gospel, it becomes “self-referential” and “atrophied.”
Cardinal Pell dies at 81; he kept the faith even amid tribulation, pope says January 11, 2023By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, Vatican, World News Pope Francis praised the late Australian Cardinal George Pell as a faithful servant of God and of the Catholic Church, who steadfastly followed the Lord even “in the hour of trial” when he was jailed for sexual abuse before his conviction was overturned by Australia’s highest court.
‘If we die, we will die together’: Women religious are pillars of peace in war-torn Ukraine January 11, 2023By Agata Puscikowska OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News After the Russian invasion that began Feb. 24, 2022, most of the sisters decided to stay in the war-torn country to support the local population.
