As Catholics worldwide prepare to commemorate World Mission Sunday, a missionary priest in the Diocese of Rochester, New York, said his work has given him the opportunity to give back what he received in his youth in Kenya.

Roberto Navarro dreams of one day eradicating hunger, as his work involves “advocating for bills that are important to help our neediest brothers and sisters around the world,” he explained. He and his team advocate for Congress to pass (and maintain) the foreign financial aid budget.

The listening that has been part of the Synod of Bishops changes people, can change the Catholic Church and can change the world for the better, four synod members told U.S. university students in Rome.

In the majestic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington during an Oct. 16 celebration of life for Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the singer Stevie Wonder honored his friend by singing the Our Father accompanied by a harpist, and then leading the congregation in a rousing version of “Isn’t She Lovely.”

Opening a new academic year at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lódz posed “the most important question in the church” today for him: “How to be a missionary synodal church?”

While some media reported a move at the Synod of Bishops to allow every national bishops’ conference to make Catholic doctrine, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., said that was not precisely what he heard.

In just 45 minutes, Archbishop Richard G. Henning presented salvation history according to sacred Scripture in an engaging keynote address Oct. 5, during the Eucharistic Congress sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington.

A number of organizations are inviting faithful to pray for persecuted Christians throughout the month of November, as more than 365 million believers in Christ worldwide suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination, according to a 20242023 report by the advocacy group Open Doors.

Three weeks into the second session of the Synod of Bishops, journalists wanted to know what outcomes the synod members were moving toward, but several synod members said it is too soon to tell.

Ahead of World Mission Sunday — which the Catholic Church celebrates on the second to last Sunday in October, and which in 2024 falls on Oct. 20 — OSV News spoke with Kevin Foy, executive director of the United States Catholic Mission Association, on current perspectives and trends in mission work.