Spiritual bouquet gathers more than 2 million offerings from 72 countries for pope’s birthday
Pope Leo XIV turned 70 on Sept. 14, and more than 2 million prayers and works from 72 countries around the world were offered for him for the occasion through […]
In interview, pope talks about abuse crisis, Trump, following Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Clerical sexual abuse continues to be “a real crisis,” one that the Catholic Church still must learn to deal with, particularly in improving the way it […]
French Christians shocked by murder of Chaldean Catholic influencer from Iraq
PARIS (OSV News) — French Christians are reeling after the brutal murder of Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old disabled Iraqi Chaldean Catholic, stabbed in the throat outside his Lyon apartment. Sarnaya, […]
Jailed Catholic priests ‘used as hostages’ in Belarus
(OSV News) — Human rights campaigners have accused the Belarus government of using imprisoned Catholic priests as “hostages,” as a Polish Carmelite became the latest detained for alleged espionage. “The […]
Pope nixes ‘virtual pope’ idea, explains concerns about AI
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him. […]
Special education funding for students with hearing and vision loss cut in DEI probe
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states that is aimed at assisting students who are both visually and hearing-impaired, sometimes referred […]
50th anniversary celebration of Seton canonization highlights new ‘Saints on Their Way’
(OSV News) — As the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton marked the 50th anniversary of the 1975 canonization of its namesake on Sept. 14, the Emmitsburg, Maryland, campus hosted […]
Religion must serve God, not man, says Patriarch Bartholomew
(OSV News) — “Wherever you think you see religion still serving prejudice and hatred, you are not seeing true religion,” but rather “the manipulation of religious values to serve a kingdom […]
OSV Editors: How to change our society in crisis
(OSV News) — We are a society in crisis. There is no other way to describe the fact that, in the past month, three young men, aged 16 to 23, […]
Holiness is forged in revolution
When Pope Leo XIII penned “Rerum Novarum” in 1891, the world was caught in the gears of the Industrial Revolution. The smoke of factories darkened Europe’s skies, and the dignity […]