As pope leaves hospital, he comforts couple, jokes with reporters
ROME (CNS) -- "I'm still alive," Pope Francis joked to reporters who asked how he was doing as he left Rome's Gemelli hospital April 1. The 86-year-old...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- "I'm still alive," Pope Francis joked to reporters who asked how he was doing as he left Rome's Gemelli hospital April 1. The 86-year-old...
Read More(OSV News) -- "If you want to remember me, organize," said César Chávez, the legendary Mexican-American labor leader who for decades championed U.S....
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis used his third day at Rome's Gemelli hospital to visit children hospitalized in the oncology ward and to confer the sacrament...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, one of the most famous sites of Marian apparitions worldwide, is facing an important decision: what...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis enjoyed a pizza "party" with staff on his second night at Rome's Gemelli hospital and was expected to be released from the hospital...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican's prosecuting attorney has leveled additional charges against four of the defendants who have been on trial since July...
Read MoreROME (OSV News) -- The World Athletics Council, the international sports governing body, announced new rules that prohibit the participation of "male-to-female...
Read More(OSV News) -- Recent and potential bankruptcy filings by California and New York dioceses, made in response to clerical sexual abuse claims, highlight...
Read MorePHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- A new study shows that American Catholics largely have favorable or at least neutral opinions of Jews, but many Catholics remain...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After having difficulty breathing, Pope Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital March 29 where he was diagnosed with a respiratory...
Read More(OSV News) -- Two new alternatives to burial and cremation fail to comply with the Catholic Church's teaching on respect for the bodies of the dead, the...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The National Eucharistic Revival announced it will release what it called the "first-of-its-kind" mystagogy series of weekly catechetical...
Read MoreJAMAICA PLAIN -- While observing the feast of the Annunciation, but with an eye toward the coming Easter, leaders and representatives of the Roman Catholic,...
Read MoreBOSTON -- Prayer, fellowship, and street ministry. These are the three pillars of Encounter, a ministry to the poor and homeless organized by young adults....
Read MoreJAMAICA PLAIN -- For over 60 years, Catholic Charities' El Centro Adult Education Center has offered classes and academic services to newly arrived...
Read MoreDuring their St. Joseph Day liturgy, immediately following a powerful video reflecting on their 150 years in Boston, Sister Jean McKinney, CSJ, pronounced...
Read MoreLast Friday, I was still making my way back to Boston from Paraguay, so I was unable to celebrate our St. Patrick's Day Mass at the Cathedral of the...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of April 9. Please note that televised...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- Here are some television program notes for the week of April 9, with their TV Parental Guidelines ratings if available. They have...
Read MoreNASHVILLE, Tenn. (OSV News) -- When traumatic events happen, like the recent Nashville school shooting, it's important for parents to explain to their...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- More than 24 hours after he entered the hospital, Pope Francis' doctors reported a "marked improvement" in his condition, which they attributed...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- After the Vatican said Pope Francis was hospitalized for a pulmonary infection March 29, Catholic bishops in the United States...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, expressed his surprise,...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- After spending the night in the hospital, Pope Francis is "steadily improving" from a respiratory infection and continuing his planned course...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church formally "repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The reality of legalized euthanasia often doesn't correspond to hypothetical debates over the practice, according to a panel of...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Every new generation entering the workforce changes the climate of expectations versus employer goals. None are studied more intensely...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a leading safeguarding expert, resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors because...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a "tragic" fire that killed at least 38 people and injured some 29 others at a migrant processing...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis went to Rome's Gemelli hospital March 29 for "some previously planned tests," the Vatican press office said, providing...
Read MoreMEXICO CITY (OSV News) -- A fire in a Mexican immigration detention center has claimed the lives of at least 38 migrants, who appeared to be abandoned...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has accepted Jesuit Father Hans Zollner's request to no longer be a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis called the deadly shooting at a school in Nashville a "senseless act of violence" and prayed that the grieving families...
Read MoreNASHVILLE, Tenn. (OSV News) -- Nashville Bishop J. Mark Spalding celebrated the 5:30 p.m. Mass March 27 at the Cathedral of the Incarnation to pray for...
Read MoreNASHVILLE, Tenn. (OSV News) -- Officials of the Nashville Diocese called news of a morning mass shooting and loss of life at a private Christian school...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone responded to comments made by former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on March 23...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Hartford is investigating a possible Eucharistic miracle at one of its parishes, where Communion hosts seemingly multiplied...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' message of hope for humanity will be shot into earth's orbit as a "nanobook" embedded inside a small satellite and...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis asked tech leaders to measure the value of their innovations not in processing power or profit potential, but in their...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has updated the procedures for investigating allegations of sexual abuse or the cover up of abuse, specifying that the...
Read More(OSV News) -- Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed two bills into law March 22 that impact minors who identify as transgender, with one of the bills banning some...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- When the Archdiocese of Boston was in its infancy, it was one of the first beneficiaries of the newly formed Society for the Propagation of...
Read MoreBOSTON -- In August 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the San Lorenzo Capuchin Friary in Jamaica Plain began using a customized van to deliver...
Read MoreAs the winter sports season comes to an end, four Catholic high schools took home state titles in basketball. Malden Catholic boys repeated as Division...
Read MoreLast Thursday, I met with several representatives of Boston's Jewish community at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. With us were Jeremy Burton and Stacey...
Read MoreFather Peter P. Nolan, CSSp., an Irish-born missionary to Nigeria, a priest serving in the archdiocese since 1982, and an inveterate Irishman, died at...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Safe, organized, legal and sustainable migration is in the interest of all countries, Pope Francis wrote. "If this is not recognized,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has invited Catholics worldwide to renew the act of consecrating the church and all humanity, especially Russia and...
Read More(OSV News) -- A lecture series on "reproductive justice" at the University of Notre Dame is advancing "activist propaganda" rather than "conducting a neutral...
Read More(OSV News) -- There is no shortage these days of proposed state and federal government legislation directed at both safety and liability in a digital environment...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of April 2. Please note that televised...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- Here are some television program notes for the week of April 2, with their TV Parental Guidelines ratings if available. They have...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) – Saul has slain his thousands and Keanu Reeves his tens of thousands. Or so, at least, it seems by the end of the close to three...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- "Do not be afraid to dream." That's one of the characteristic statements viewers encounter in the uplifting documentary "In Viaggio:...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A U.S. House hearing March 22 examined what it called Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's anti-Catholic persecution and called...
Read MoreVAL DE BRIEY, France (OSV News) -- Four years after a devastating fire, the date of the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has been set for Dec....
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The people behind chatbots are asking questions of priests and ethicists rather than turning to their artificially intelligent creations....
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Amid society's push for medical intervention to resolve gender "discordance," there is a strong need for "charitable, substantive...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A still-pending ruling by a federal judge in Texas could pull an abortion drug from the market across the United States. A lawsuit...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Surgical, chemical or other interventions that aim "to exchange" a person's "sex characteristics" for those of the opposite sex...
Read MoreSOUTH BEND, Ind. (OSV News) -- Mercy Sister Rosemary Connelly, former executive director of Misericordia and lifelong advocate for individuals with developmental...
Read More(OSV News) -- Polish church leaders have welcomed renewed calls for the beatification of a popular priest, Father Franciszek Blachnicki (1921-1987), following...
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS (OSV News) -- It was his first speaking engagement at the United Nations' headquarters in New York, and Gabriel Cobb, who has Down syndrome,...
Read More(OSV News) -- Portugal's Catholic Church has reiterated new safeguarding commitments in line with an independent commission on sexual abuse by clergy,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The faithful must set aside their egos and sense of superiority over others to make room for God and his tender mercy, Pope Francis...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The substitute secretary for general affairs in the Vatican Secretariat of State said Vatican officials "were forced" into spending...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Joe Biden announced March 14 he would sign an executive order aiming to increase the number of background checks on...
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Read MoreEvery adult needs to financially plan. Notice how I didn't say have "a financial plan" and, instead, emphasized the verb -- "plan." That's because...
Read MoreWhen people invest in mutual funds to help them achieve their financial goals, they do so primarily for diversification purposes as they grow their portfolio....
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Read MoreBe it in athletics, the workplace, or the household, effective teamwork has been shown to positively impact outcomes. When creating any kind of estate...
Read MoreWhen a priest is ordained, it is a truly beautiful moment. An ordinary man, through self-sacrifice and sacred rites, becomes something more. He is now...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has strongly persecuted the church in the country and jailed a prominent bishop, is "unbalanced,"...
Read More(OSV News) -- Claire Guernsey was eager to share her deeply held faith with the restless audience of Irish schoolkids. The students, however, didn't share...
Read MoreARBUTUS, Md. (OSV News) -- The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world's first sustained women's religious community for Black women,...
Read MoreSALEM -- The annual Catholic Appeal is underway, with the theme "Faith in action starts with you." The Catholic Appeal supports the parishes, schools,...
Read MoreJAMAICA PLAIN -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley and the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the U.S., Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of...
Read MoreDORCHESTER -- Hanging on the wall in the Carolyn Lynch Children's Center is a sign in shape of a compass rose. For Maura Letourneau, it represents...
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