1+ week, 3+ day ago   (136+ words) The American monthly magazine Vanity Fair has just released a best-dressed list, and among the Hollywood stars and the power couples is also Pope Leo XIV. In December 2025 – just a few months after his election – Leo already found himself featured alongside…...

1+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (204+ words) ucanews.com Why even a secular world still needs its priests In the 2023 national census in New Zealand, 52 percent of people indicated they had no religious affiliation, up from 42 percent in 2013 and 30 percent in 2001. Similar trends can be found in…...

1+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (271+ words) Courtney Mares, OSV News The Vatican announced Aug. 11 that Pope Leo XIV's message for the 2027 World Day of Peace will focus on disarming technology and political leaders' moral responsibility. The theme will be Disarming Technology, Serving Peace. Politics as Preventive…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (266+ words) Why altar bells still ring, decades after Vatican II’s liturgical reform ucanews.com Why altar bells still ring, decades after Vatican II’s liturgical reform Though the ringing of altar bells became liturgically unnecessary once Mass moved into the vernacular after…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1214+ words) Katarzyna Szalajko, OSV News On Aug. 9, 1991, two young Polish missionaries were killed by Peru's Maoist Shining Path guerrillas after refusing to abandon the people they served. Thirty-five years after Conventual Franciscan Fathers Michal Tomaszek and Zbigniew Strzalkowski were martyred, their…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (97+ words) Joseph You Guo Jiang SJ In 2020 Pope Francis promulgated the social encyclical Fratelli Tutti (FT). In it, he reflects on the pressing challenges of our time: war and armed conflict, global pandemics, hunger, nuclear threats, ecological collapse, and an increasingly…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (347+ words) Christian leaders in the western Indian state of Rajasthan have expressed dismay after a court denied bail to 10 Catholics who have been jailed for more than three months following a confrontation with a Hindu mob that disrupted a Mass at…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (251+ words) Snow in August: the legend behind Rome’s St. Mary Major ucanews.com Snow in August: the legend behind Rome’s St. Mary Major As it marks the anniversary of its dedication on Aug. 5, 434, the Basilica of St. Mary Major is remembered…...