1+ day, 13+ 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, 20+ hour ago   (1747+ 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…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (353+ words) (OSV News) — An Illinois diocese has done away with eulogies during funeral Masses and also visitation of the deceased in the church immediately before the Mass. Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield announced in a video and statement both dated…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (518+ words) ROCHESTER, N.Y. (OSV News) — Catholics in the Diocese of Rochester will soon have a physical link to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. A first-class relic of the famed cleric, who led the Rochester Diocese as its sixth bishop (1966-69), is being given to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (576+ words) MINNEAPOLIS (OSV News) — Chorbishop Sharbel Maroun — pastor of St. Maron in Minneapolis, a Maronite Catholic church — has been named as archbishop-elect of the Maronite Archeparchy of Damascus in Syria, according to a Vatican announcement Aug. 28. “I was thrilled to learn…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (687+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The St. John Paul II National Shrine in Northeast Washington officially opened its retreat house Aug. 26 with a Mass, a blessing and prayers invoking the intercession of St. John Paul II and the Blessed Virgin Mary. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (699+ words) (OSV News) — The head of the U.S. bishop’s committee on ecumenical and interreligious affairs has expressed his robust support for biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine, as she faces antisemitic backlash for her recent appointment as the first Jewish president of the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1038+ words) (OSV News) — Spanish Catholics have welcomed new public interest being shown in St. John of the Cross, on the twin anniversary of his 1726 canonization and proclamation as a doctor of the Church on Aug. 24, 1926. “This saint sparks an interest far…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (715+ words) (OSV News) — Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago has reinstated a diocesan priest — known for his longtime social justice ministry — as pastor after an inquiry cleared the cleric of abuse allegations. In an Aug. 24 letter addressed to the faithful of…...