Pope calls for end to violence in Sudan, Tanzania November 3, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News After reciting the Angelus prayer Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, the pope offered special prayers for the victims in el-Fasher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state.
Priests of the Sacred Heart aim to spread message of Jesus’ love November 3, 2025By Gigi Duncan OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Each June, the church invites the faithful to turn their own hearts toward the Sacred Heart of Jesus — a symbol of his boundless mercy and deep compassion for all humanity.
Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis put Christ at the center of health care November 2, 2025By Gigi Duncan OSV News Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Health Care, News, Vocations, World News Historically, the Franciscan Sisters, like many religious orders, were directly involved in hands-on care, nursing patients at their hospitals across Illinois and Michigan. Their work was rooted in the Gospel call to care for the most vulnerable and serve as healers of both body and soul.
‘A gift from God’: Parishes encouraged to start Liturgy of Hours ahead of new edition November 2, 2025By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Ahead of a new English edition of the Liturgy of the Hours for the Latin Church, Father Ernest and other liturgical experts are encouraging parishes and other Catholic communities to embrace this prayer, which is said at different points throughout the day.
At education Jubilee, pope names St. John Henry Newman ‘doctor of the church’ November 1, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News The lives of St. John Henry Newman and of all the saints teach Christians that “it is possible to live passionately amidst the complexity of the present without neglecting the apostolic mandate to ‘shine like stars in the world,'” Pope Leo XIV said.
Diocese announces religious visa lawsuit deal with national implications November 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Attorneys for the Diocese of Paterson, N.J., have moved to voluntarily dismiss a lawsuit they had filed against the federal government regarding visas for religious workers — a case that highlights the perfect storm created by the nation’s shifting immigration policies and the increased reliance on international clergy by the Catholic Church in the United States amid a downturn in domestic vocations to the priesthood.
An Augustinian seminarian finds purpose in a restless heart November 1, 2025By Gigi Duncan OSV News Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Frank Connor, a seminarian with the Augustinian Province of St. Thomas of Villanova, has embraced a divine invitation to service and purpose that has unfolded gradually throughout his life.
Pray, recommit to journeying with young for vocations, says bishop November 1, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News, Young Adult Ministry Regardless of scheduling, the goal of National Vocations Awareness Week remains timeless and crucial — and the aim is a whole-of-church effort, said the USCCB in its Oct. 15 media release containing Bishop Boyea’s statement.
What is incorruptibility? Here’s what faith and science have to say November 1, 2025By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Michael S. Carter and other experts in philosophy, science and theology spoke with OSV News about incorruptibility, addressing everything from incorrupt saints and their significance in the Catholic Church to the relationship of faith and science.
Judge orders Trump administration to make SNAP payments with contingency funds October 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News A federal judge in Rhode Island on Oct. 31 blocked the Trump administration from ceasing to pay for federal food assistance during the government shutdown.
Key off-year elections dominated by Trump, ongoing cost-of-living concerns October 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, News, World News Closely watched off-year elections in several states will offer the first major opportunity for voters to weigh in at the ballot box since President Donald Trump began his second term — with cost-of-living, an area of Catholic social concern, once more playing a role.
It’s Holywins: European Catholics offer a joyful alternative to Halloween October 31, 2025By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: News, World News, Youth Ministry Across Europe, Catholic families are turning Halloween into a celebration of light, life and holiness. Known as “Holywins” — a play on “Holy” and “Halloween” — the movement began in Paris in 2002 and has since spread to Poland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and beyond.
