1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (543+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) — While overwhelming sorrow at the memory of the dead from 9/11 comes easily, the continuing challenge for Catholics is forgiveness and reconciliation in a fractured world, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio said in his Sept. 11 homily. Archbishop Broglio, head…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (775+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Everyone needs to feel there is room for them in their bishop’s heart, Pope Leo XIV said. “Love the people that the Lord has entrusted to you” and boldly bring the Good News of salvation to everyone,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (998+ words) (OSV News) — Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian Catholic dissident and journalist, returned to Belarus Sept. 8, following an audience with Pope Leo XIV and after five months in exile in Poland, saying he was prepared to risk arrest and urging Western Catholics…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (600+ words) (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV returned Sept. 7 to the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel, where he asked the Virgin Mary for aid to bring God’s word to light through “courageous and wise decisions.” The pope traveled to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (553+ words) (OSV News) — Each September the Church celebrates the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on Sept. 14, and the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows follows on Sept. 15. The pairing of these celebrations, even in their different levels on…...

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, 5+ day ago   (719+ words) Written by Ruadhán Jones DUBLIN (OSV News) — Baptisms in the Catholic Church in Ireland have fallen by almost a third since 2015, with just one Irish diocese seeing any positive change, a new report shows. While around 60% of the 30% collapse can…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (638+ words) (OSV News) — When Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer realized a number of young Catholics were abandoning their faith in the name of science, he decided to do something about it: Create a new study Bible. “We have a lot of young…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (505+ words) (OSV News) — All mosaics by disgraced priest Father Marko Rupnik adorning the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes will be covered ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s September visit and will remain covered indefinitely, said Bishop Jean-Marc Micas…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (794+ words) Our family has a beautiful vegetable garden, one that I spend a great deal of time in during the summer months. Our raised beds are bursting with life and flavor. My mother has a green thumb, and I learned early…...