Catholic Olympic champion swimmer awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Adding another distinguished medal to her already sizable collection, Katie Ledecky -- the most decorated woman in swimming history...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Adding another distinguished medal to her already sizable collection, Katie Ledecky -- the most decorated woman in swimming history...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting members of the Swiss Guard, including 34 new recruits, Pope Francis thanked them for their dedication and generous service...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The spiritual practice of reparation "may be somewhat forgotten or wrongly judged obsolete" today, but it is essential for the promotion...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Loneliness causes tremendous harm, including to families, Pope Francis told international leaders of the Teams of Our Lady lay movement. "With...
Read MoreShort-term and respite care provides support for seniors and their caregivers, balancing professional care with personal freedom. These services enrich...
Read MoreIn order for senior women to age well, it is important they do everything they can to take good care of themselves. To that end, did you know that Women's...
Read MoreWhen was the last time you had a meaningful interaction with someone significantly younger or older than yourself? Chances are, you have fond childhood...
Read MoreThe seniors at New Horizons at Marlborough enjoyed a rare treat on Friday, April 26: Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley visited the MetroWest retirement...
Read MoreIn their effort to bring a holistic and innovative approach to wellness, Alliance Health at Marie Esther has embarked on an exciting new project that promises...
Read MoreShort-term and respite care provides support for seniors and their caregivers, balancing professional care with personal freedom. These services enrich...
Read MoreThese days one often hears the sentiment that being pro-life is at odds with caring for the poor. Kentucky-born physician and Sister of Mercy Sister Mariana...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The greatest enemy of faith is fear, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience. That is why faith is the first gift "that...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Seminarians and religious men and women need well-rounded formation throughout their lives, not only at the onset of their religious...
Read MoreWOBURN -- For Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, his installation as archbishop of Boston on July 30, 2003, was "kind of a traumatic experience." Speaking...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Susan Ho, director of faith formation at St. James the Greater Parish in Boston's Chinatown, calls herself a "Jane of all trades." She...
Read MoreQUINCY -- More than 700 friends and supporters of the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary of Boston gathered on April 28 at the Boston Marriott...
Read MoreLAWRENCE -- On April 24, an unusual sound could be heard coming out of the Buckley Transportation Center in Lawrence. Rather than honking horns, chugging...
Read MoreThis is the tenth article in a series profiling the 11 men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the...
Read MoreLast week, I spoke about my trip to Spain to receive an honorary degree from the Pontifical University of Salamanca. Well, the actual ceremony was last...
Read MoreA Jamaica Plain native and an alumnus of Cathedral High School, Boston, Father Charles E. Salamone died following a lingering illness on April 24, 2024....
Read MoreWith more priests than he needed, Archbishop Richard Cushing started to share the wealth. During the period between the mid-40s and the mid-60s, the archbishop...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) Behind "We Grown Now" (Sony Pictures Classics), a drama influenced by real-life events, looms the 1992 murder of 7-year-old...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) Intense and erotically charged, the psychological drama "Challengers" (Amazon MGM) is, in a word, challenging. Yet, while it...
Read MoreCIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- El mayor enemigo de la fe es el miedo, dijo el Papa Francisco en su audiencia general de esta semana. Por eso, dijo, la fe...
Read MoreCIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Los seminaristas y los religiosos y religiosas necesitan una formación integral a lo largo de sus vidas, no sólo...
Read More-- Grupos católicos en Perú han estado planeando su reacción a dos casos que involucran autorizaciones judiciales para la eutanasia en la...
Read MoreVENECIA, Italia (CNS) -- Visitando durante un día una laguna de pequeñas islas, canales y estrechas pasarelas, el Papa Francisco recorrió...
Read MoreCIUDAD DE MÉXICO (OSV News) -- Los obispos de México han denunciado el uso de la folclórica Santa Muerte por parte del partido gobernante...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Connecticut, who is automatically succeeded...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Synodal assemblies and listening sessions are not a new Catholic invention; gatherings of the faithful to pray, discuss divisive...
Read MoreTURIN, Italy (OSV News) -- For the rector of the world's second largest church after St. Peter's Basilica -- the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Department of Health and Human Services announced new regulations April 26 that restore Obama-era protections for patients...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The collaboration of laity and priests in the life of a parish and in outreach to the surrounding community "is not a strategy,"...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A foundation that promotes devotion to St. Pio of Pietrelcina, more widely known as Padre Pio, is making 10 never-before-seen photographs...
Read More(OSV News) -- Catholic agencies, along with other Christian charities in Sudan, have intensified their food distribution campaign across the country to...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- By sharing their own stories and those of their parishes, pastors from around the world can help each other see where God is present...
Read MoreVENICE, Italy (CNS) -- Visiting a lagoon of tiny islands, canals and narrow walkways for one day, Pope Francis moved around Venice by boat, bridge and...
Read MoreVENICE, Italy (CNS) -- The rusted wrought iron frame and grate of an old well became a garden of crocheted flowers inside the courtyard of the Giudecca...
Read MoreDuring XVIII Assembly of the Italian Catholic Action in Sacrofano, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, told...
Read More(OSV News) -- More than 15 million visitors are expected to descend upon the city of Paris this summer for the 2024 Olympics. The French capital will serve...
Read MoreOXFORD, England (OSV News) -- Catholic bishops in England and Wales have rejected "gender identity theory," reminding Catholic schools and parishes to...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While misusing modern forms of media dulls the mind, games like checkers are a simple way to stimulate one's intellect and foster...
Read More(OSV News) -- A U.S. archbishop has denounced the Biden administration's decision to resume deportations of Haitian migrants, given the rampant violence...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis met briefly with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems -- the U.S. digital communications conglomerate -- after Robbins...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Before converting to Catholicism, Michael Baggot took his questions about faith and the church to the first place many people go...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A review by the Department of Justice's watchdog found "no evidence" of religious bias in the creation of a leaked and since-retracted...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Candidates to the priesthood must integrate their spiritual, intellectual and community lives so they become pastors who can respond...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Peace can spread and grow from "small seeds" like including someone who is left out of an activity, showing concern for someone who...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Final regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will grant workers protections for time off and other job accommodations...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court on April 22 heard a case concerning the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping and their impact...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- Father Eric Cadin couldn't believe that nobody honked their horns. On the evening of April 13, he and over 500 others marched in a eucharistic...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- "I just want to die." Dr. Karen O'Brien, co-director of the Palliative Care Inpatient Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, hears...
Read MoreNEEDHAM -- It's no secret that middle school is a time of great anxiety. Students' emotions are more intense than they have ever been, so it's...
Read MoreAppropriate on St. Patrick's Day weekend, the Mary Ann Brett Food Pantry held its annual fundraiser -- in fact, it was the 15th anniversary of the...
Read MoreThis is the ninth article in a series profiling the 11 men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the...
Read MoreWENHAM -- Gordon College, a Christian college located in Wenham, recently hosted a Faith Leader workshop for New England pastors and ministry leaders....
Read MoreAs I mentioned in my previous post, last week, we were in the midst of our annual pilgrimage and meeting of the Papal Foundation in Rome. This is the largest...
Read MoreA proud veteran of the United States Navy Chaplain Corps in which he served for almost three decades, Father John W. McElroy died in Palm Coast, Florida,...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) "We're in the Nazi killing business, and cousin, business is a-boomin'" blithely declares Brad Pitt's character, U.S. Army officer...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) Moviegoers tempted by a title like "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" (Warner Bros.) are presumably not in search of Shakespearian...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics...
Read More(OSV News) -- A new AI priest, launched by a Catholic teaching apostolate to answer questions about the faith, has been "laicized" after sparking more...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- A portion of a new interview with Pope Francis will air tonight on the "CBS Evening News" at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, according to a release...
Read MoreBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) -- Authorities in the city of León, Nicaragua, chose an unusual place for setting up a boxing ring and staging...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the marks of a righteous individual, the virtues of faith, hope...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In 2022, pro-life activist Lauren Handy told a reporter, "I feel like the die has been cast for me. I've accepted the reality...
Read MoreBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) -- An Argentine priest who works with the country's poorest and most vulnerable people is hopeful that Pope Francis...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group...
Read More(OSV News) -- As Haiti's capital spirals into lawlessness, a longtime U.S. missionary has been forced to evacuate -- while Haitian Catholics in the U.S....
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Jesus called himself the "good shepherd," he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more "auto-referential" and withdraw itself from the international...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The 2024 edition of the Vatican yearbook has inserted "Patriarch of the West" as one of the historical titles of the pope. In 2006,...
Read MoreMeghan Schrader is an instructor and mentor at the E4Texas (Texas Center for Disability Studies) program at the University of Texas at Austin and is on...
Read MoreBOSTON -- Shadi Lopez discovered her "calling" while studying in Catholic schools. The daughter of immigrants from El Salvador, Lopez graduated from East...
Read MoreQUINCY -- Gabe Bresnahan was 14 years old when he first saw a child being born. He was in the community of St. Rock, Haiti, where he and his father, Dr....
Read MoreRyan, a Dame of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, was one of 151 people who received Cheverus Awards in 2023. The annual archdiocesan awards...
Read MoreThis is the eighth article in a series profiling the 11 men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the...
Read More"I believe I am fortunate to call myself a student at Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School. The opportunities our school has afforded me are almost beyond...
Read MoreLast Friday, I was pleased to attend a luncheon at the Harvard Club celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ray Flynn's election as mayor of Boston. I...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1877 ballet "Swan Lake" had very negative implications for Soviet leaders since the broadcasting...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) Toward the end of "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" (Columbia), the fifth film in a supernatural comedy franchise that dates back...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- The psychological and ethical complexities of front-line journalism are explored in depth in the dystopian drama "Civil War" (A24)....
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