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The Church in the Upper Midwest
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (1449+ words) In this next installment of our series on the origins of Catholicism in the 50 states, we turn to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. As French explorers traveled the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers in search of valuable furs…...
Houston conference highlights bonds of faith shared by Catholics in US, China
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (854+ words) HOUSTON (OSV News) — Catholic leaders, scholars, clergy and lay faithful gathered in Houston from July 31 to Aug. 2 for the 30th Biennial International Conference of the U.S.-China Catholic Association, founded in 1989 to foster relationships between Catholics in the United States and…...
‘We will come to you,’ Texas archbishop tells migrants in new pastoral letter
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (1303+ words) (OSV News) — At “an unprecedented moment” in U.S. immigration policy, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio is assuring migrants in a new pastoral letter that the Church “will come to you.” Drawing on Scripture, Church teaching, human rights reports,…...
Pope Leo XIV mourns Mozambican cardinal, praising his zeal and perseverance
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (597+ words) (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV mourned Cardinal Júlio Duarte Langa, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Xai-Xai in Mozambique, who died Aug. 3 while undergoing treatment in Maputo Central Hospital. The 98-year-old cardinal had remained an influential figure within the Catholic…...
Pope Leo XIV to visit 10 cities in South America in November
4+ hour, 11+ min ago (837+ words) ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV will make the first apostolic journey to South America of his pontificate Nov. 6-17, visiting 10 cities in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, the Vatican has announced. The trip will take him from one of Latin America’s…...
Pope encourages Catholics to deepen prayer through Liturgy of the Hours
5+ hour, 11+ min ago (496+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Returning to his weekly general audiences after a monthlong summer break, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to embrace the Liturgy of the Hours more fully in their daily lives, saying the church’s public prayer is an antidote…...
At premiere, Blessed Rother film sparks hope for new saints inspired by martyr’s life
23+ hour, 32+ min ago (1277+ words) OKLAHOMA CITY (OSVNews) — “He didn’t go back to Guatemala to die. He went back to Guatemala to live.” Msgr. Don Wolf, rector of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine and a cousin of Blessed Rother, shared these words in a documentary…...
Pope Leo XIV’s August prayer intention is ‘for evangelization in the city’
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (251+ words) VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV is inviting Catholics to pray “for evangelization in the city” as his August prayer intention, asking the Lord to accompany millions searching for meaning amid the noise and haste of urban life. In…...
Pope Leo writes to 97-year-old cardinal who spent 18 years in labor camps
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (586+ words) ROME (OSV News) — At the age of 97, Cardinal Ernest Simoni, returned to the former prison camp in Albania where he used to offer Mass in secret during his 18 years of sentenced forced labor, offering a public Mass July 31 in the…...
Missionary to lead Morocco archdiocese amid probe of abuse claims against cardinal, order says
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (390+ words) (OSV News) — A Spanish missionary priest has been appointed apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Rabat while its archbishop, Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, faces abuse allegations, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate announced. Msgr. Mario León Dorado, a Spanish priest…...