Papa Francisco: Los jóvenes son la esperanza viva de una Iglesia misionera
CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Los jóvenes necesitan comprender cuánto los ama Cristo incondicionalmente y cuánto la Iglesia necesita de sus...
Read MoreCIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Los jóvenes necesitan comprender cuánto los ama Cristo incondicionalmente y cuánto la Iglesia necesita de sus...
Read More(OSV News) -- El arzobispo de Baltimore, William E. Lori, y las autoridades de la ciudad han hecho un llamado a la oración mientras continúan...
Read More(OSV News) -- Un estudio reciente del Instituto Guttmacher, una organización que apoya el acceso al aborto, encontró que el número de...
Read More(OSV News) -- El presidente de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos (USCCB) y el presidente del Comité de Justicia y Paz Internacional...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court heard oral arguments March 26 in a case concerning mifepristone, a pill commonly used for abortion. It is the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For the first time in his 11-year papacy, Pope Francis has chosen to write his own meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross...
Read More(OSV News) -- Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore and that city's officials have called for prayers as rescue efforts continue, following the early...
Read More(OSV News) -- OSV News recently spoke with Mary Ann Glendon, professor emerita of law at Harvard University and a former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See....
Read MoreJERUSALEM (OSV News) -- When Christians gathered in Jerusalem to remember Jesus' entry into the city, it was one of a few joyful moments in the Holy Land,...
Read MoreDUBLIN (OSV News) -- The professional body that regulates and ensures professional standards for doctors in Ireland has rejected a report from a parliamentary...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Media outlets have a responsibility to share the truth, not spread ideologies, Pope Francis said. The pope told employees of the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Only Jesus can deliver humanity from hatred and violence, Pope Francis said on Palm Sunday. "Jesus entered Jerusalem as a humble...
Read More(OSV News) -- Es una escena inmortalizada en los Evangelios: Jesús, sabiendo que está a punto de ser traicionado, arrestado y ejecutado, se sienta...
Read More-- La Iglesia tiene un papel crucial en la lucha contra el aumento de la polarización, dijeron los panelistas en un seminario web organizado el 20...
Read More"Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses" By Erik Varden, O.C.S.O. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2023 176 pages The Norwegian bishop and Trappist monk Erik...
Read MoreCIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- La Iglesia Católica puede acercarse más a Jesús acompañando a los migrantes en su búsqueda de una...
Read MoreCIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Frente a décadas de creciente secularismo, la Iglesia Católica debe invertir en las familias y en el fortalecimiento...
Read More(OSV News) -- Mientras la Corte Suprema se prepara para abordar dos casos sobre el acceso a píldoras comúnmente utilizadas para abortos tempranos,...
Read More(OSV News) -- A Catholic-inspired human rights group devoted to ending human trafficking took its case to the United Nations March 14, demanding comprehensive...
Read More(OSV News) -- Losing a young child. Struggling in a troubled marriage with an alcoholic husband. Separating, starting a nursing career in midlife, downsizing...
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) An old movie trope is spun into a satiric fantasy with middling results in "The American Society of Magical Negroes" (Focus). The...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) An understated tone bolsters the impact of the fact-based drama "One Life" (Bleecker Street). The educational value and formative...
Read MoreBOSTON -- The green-clad faithful filled the Cathedral of the Holy Cross for a St. Patrick's Day Mass celebrated by Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley...
Read MoreBOSTON -- To Thomas Hynes, the story of his family is the story of the Irish in Boston. His uncle was John B. Hynes, mayor of Boston from 1950 to 1960,...
Read MoreDEDHAM -- As Father Wayne Belschner, pastor of St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Dedham, set the table in the parish rectory on the Solemnity of St....
Read MoreThis is the fourth 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 MoreBROCKTON -- Jean Gately, a volunteer sacristan and eucharistic minister at Christ the King Parish in Brockton, tries to do her work carefully and quietly. "It's...
Read MoreLast Saturday, while I was still in Rome, I had dinner with Cardinal Adalberto Martinez and Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik. Cardinal Lazzaro studied at...
Read More(OSV News) -- England's decision to halt routine prescriptions of puberty blockers following a review is "absolutely very important news" -- and shows...
Read MoreHAM LAKE, Minn. (OSV News) -- When Josh Ritter was in high school, he wanted to play Jesus in the Living Stations the Church of St. Paul in Ham Lake presents...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Catholic University of America in Washington announced March 20 that Teresa Pitt Green, a writer and speaker who promotes healing for...
Read More(OSV News) -- If there can be said to be a vanishing population in the United States, one demographic immediately stands out: people living with Down syndrome....
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- France's bishops issued a joint statement March 19 in response to a draft law on "aid in dying" that French President Emmanuel Macron...
Read More(OSV News) -- As the choice of a bishop potentially can guide and shape the journey of a given diocese or archdiocese for sometimes decades at a time,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has not accepted an invitation to travel to Moscow in June to meet with Vladimir Putin, the director of the Holy See...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "War is always a defeat," Pope Francis said, urging people at his general audience to pray that leaders in war-torn nations would...
Read More(OSV News) -- Leaning into a sprinter's stance while watching the 2008 Olympics, 8-year-old Sydney McLaughlin visualized her future. Fast forward eight...
Read MoreSÃO PAULO (OSV News) -- While church groups in different nations have been discussing what to do with Father Marko Rupnik's works after sex abuse...
Read More(OSV News) -- A few months ago, Rhina Guidos was talking with students at a Catholic university in Washington and asked them to imagine U.S. soldiers bursting...
Read More(OSV News) -- The 2024 Men's Division I NCAA Tournament gets underway March 19 with the "First Four" play-in games, and seven Catholic schools will be...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Asked to reminisce about his life and where he was at key moments in history, the 87-year-old Pope Francis obliged, but also used...
Read More(OSV News) -- As the Supreme Court prepares to take up two cases on access to pills commonly used for early abortions, U.S. Catholic bishops have issued...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, is not exempt from paying into the state's unemployment insurance system...
Read More(OSV News) -- Children experiencing issues with their gender identity will no longer routinely be prescribed puberty blockers, health authorities in England...
Read More(OSV News) -- As violence and instability ravage Haiti, two U.S. bishops are urging awareness and action by the global community to assist Haitians in...
Read More(OSV News) -- As evidence mounts of sexual crimes by Slovene-born Father Marko Rupnik, church communities are resisting calls for his expensive sacral...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has named Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera to be secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Diocese of Camden, N.J., and related Catholic entities will fund a trust of $87.5 million for more than 300 survivors of sexual abuse...
Read More(OSV News) -- Vice President Kamala Harris on March 14 toured a Minnesota abortion clinic, marking the first time that a president or vice president has...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has decided that some of the most controversial issues raised at the first assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of U.S. Sister Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and he recognized...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A pope's ministry is meant to last his lifetime, Pope Francis said, and, at least until now, he has not considered resigning. However,...
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- The French bishops' conference president rebuffed President Emmanuel Macron's comments that a law that would allow euthanasia is a...
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....
Read MoreWho We Are Catholic Fraternal Life (CFL) is a fraternal life insurance company that has been in business since 1884 (140 years)! We are a non-profit fraternal...
Read MoreTo be secure wherever you are on your financial journey, you need to focus on your short- and long-term goals. That means handling day-to-day money tasks,...
Read MoreGov. Maura Healey's tax reforms may offer welcome relief for Massachusetts residents, particularly for seniors and families struggling to keep pace...
Read MoreThe search for the right senior care community can be a challenge, so asking questions can help pair you or a loved one with the proper care. Many senior...
Read MoreTake it from an attorney who works with couples from young to old and rich to poor, married and unwed: marriage is good for you. Statistics show that married...
Read More(OSV News) -- A profound experience with the Eucharist during Mass in his freshman year at Texas A&M University compelled Charlie McCullough to make Jesus...
Read More(OSV News) -- Three Egyptian Coptic monks of the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of South Africa were brutally murdered March 12 in their monastery in Cullinan,...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Nearly 75 years after he stopped teaching at The Catholic University of America in Washington, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979)...
Read MoreDUBLIN (OSV News) -- The Irish prime minister, known as the Taoiseach, has conceded that his government was defeated comprehensively when voters...
Read MoreLOWELL -- Everyone is Irish during Irish Cultural Week in Lowell. Just ask Lowell City Councilman Sokhary Chau, who, from 2022 to 2024, was the first...
Read MoreBRAINTREE -- When Sister of Charity of Nazareth Evelyn Hurley was born in South Boston on March 7, 1915, Woodrow Wilson had been president of the United...
Read MoreBOSTON -- To Richard Clark, music director of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, few sounds are as joyful to hear as over 100 children singing...
Read MoreBRIGHTON -- Jean O'Connor, who has taught first grade at St. Columbkille Partnership School in Brighton for 38 years, is something of an institution...
Read MoreROXBURY -- As the personal physician for Father Pio Gottin, Dr. Jean Alves cared for the earthly body of a man whose works he considered to be godly. Father...
Read MoreThis is the third 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 Saturday, while I was still in Washington, I celebrated a 50th anniversary Mass and renewal of vows for Pablo and Amelia Ortiz, a couple whom I married...
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) The feel-good elements of a sports movie and a pet bonding tale are mingled in director Simon Cellan Jones' fact-based drama...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) -- Students of cinema interested in watching a team of Hollywood creative types work themselves into a corner from which there seems...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) The non-Judeo-Christian philosophical ideas that weighed down its immediate predecessor have mostly been excised from "Kung...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The saints are not unreachable "exceptions of humanity" but ordinary people who worked diligently to grow in virtue, Pope Francis...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The United States established formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See 40 years ago, and the current ambassador in Rome says...
Read More(OSV News) -- Catholic clergy from Egypt have warned that ties with Orthodox and Islamic leaders are being derailed by a Vatican decision to allow the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The work of protecting minors and other vulnerable people in the Catholic Church involves holding those in positions of power accountable...
Read MoreSÃO PAULO, Brazil (OSV News) -- Amid the worst security crisis in Haiti in several years -- one that has been particularly hard for church members...
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