3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1735+ words) (ROME) CNS — If Bishop Robert Paul Boxie was selected to become a bishop just because he is Black, he said he is comfortable with that. “Some people may believe I’ve been selected, picked, because I’m Black,” he said in an…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (612+ words) The four-day visit, which starts on Sept. 25, will include popemobile rides, an open-air Mass in central Paris and a stop in Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites. The trip is “important for the country hosting him, but more…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (251+ words) “The vigil by definition is the night before,” said Bishop Paprocki. “So the vigil prayers will be prayed then by the priest or deacon even if there is no public visitation.” He also encouraged family members to join the priest…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (641+ words) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) — The Peruvian city of Callao announced an unusual tribute to Pope Leo XIV ahead of his November visit to the South American country: the largest statue of the pontiff in the world. The 45.9-foot-tall statue…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (983+ words) America Media interprets the church for the world and the world for the church. We are a forum for discussion of religion, society, politics and culture from a Catholic perspective. The Ignatian traditions of “finding God in all things” and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (402+ words) A Reflection for Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God,he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.He saw…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (988+ words) (OSV News) — The apostolic nunciature in Paris confirmed to OSV News Aug. 31 that no papal celebration is scheduled in the Father Marko Rupnik mosaic-decorated chapel inside its Paris building during the apostolic trip to France Sept. 25-28. The confirmation came as…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (255+ words) (OSV News) — An apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio by Pope Leo XIV, “Mutua concordia,” published Aug. 29, amends Canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and grants the Synod of Bishops the power,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1055+ words) (OSV News) — OSV News sat down with biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine following her July appointment as president of the Catholic Biblical Association, founded in 1936 to further biblical scholarship and research in related disciplines. The CBA also works to foster dialogue…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (650+ words) Father Ian VanHeusen works in campus ministry at East Carolina University and wears a simple Roman cassock everywhere he goes. “Even when I’m in New York City,” he said. Walking down the street, “I make eye contact with people and…...