1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (584+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Participation in elections is a key component of faithful citizenship for U.S. Catholics, as is advocating for free and fair elections, Catholic leaders said Sept. 11. At a press briefing that also included theologians and representatives of Catholic…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (451+ words) CHICAGO (OSV News) — Eight finalists have been chosen from 46 nominees for the Catholic Extension Society’s 2026-2027 Lumen Christi Award, the Chicago-based organization’s highest honor. Since 1978, the award has been presented annually to people “who radiate and reveal the light of Christ…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1747+ words) (ROME) CNS — If Bishop Robert Paul Boxie was selected to become a bishop just because he is Black, he said he is comfortable with that. “Some people may believe I’ve been selected, picked, because I’m Black,” he said in an…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (775+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Everyone needs to feel there is room for them in their bishop’s heart, Pope Leo XIV said. “Love the people that the Lord has entrusted to you” and boldly bring the Good News of salvation to everyone,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (998+ words) (OSV News) — Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian Catholic dissident and journalist, returned to Belarus Sept. 8, following an audience with Pope Leo XIV and after five months in exile in Poland, saying he was prepared to risk arrest and urging Western Catholics…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (353+ words) (OSV News) — An Illinois diocese has done away with eulogies during funeral Masses and also visitation of the deceased in the church immediately before the Mass. Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield announced in a video and statement both dated…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (916+ words) (OSV News) — Touring the U.S.–Mexico border between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg said the towering fortifications and razor wire dividing the two border communities evoked a painful memory in his own country’s…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (600+ words) (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV returned Sept. 7 to the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel, where he asked the Virgin Mary for aid to bring God’s word to light through “courageous and wise decisions.” The pope traveled to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (432+ words) Václav Havel gave a speech at the Vatican in 1999. Somewhat controversially he quoted John Hus, the Czech Reformer who was burnt at the stake in 1415. St. John Paul II, also in 1999, called it a “cruel death” and expressed the Church’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (576+ words) MINNEAPOLIS (OSV News) — Chorbishop Sharbel Maroun — pastor of St. Maron in Minneapolis, a Maronite Catholic church — has been named as archbishop-elect of the Maronite Archeparchy of Damascus in Syria, according to a Vatican announcement Aug. 28. “I was thrilled to learn…...