Sister best known for ministry to migrant shares her artwork that tells their...
CHICAGO (OSV News) — A religious sister best known for helping more than 100,000 migrants and asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Texas was in Chicago April 15 to share her artwork...
View ArticleProtesters at U.S. Catholic colleges, universities join voices to...
As the school year draws to a close, student protesters at Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. have added their voices to the din of pro-Palestinian shouts at campuses across the country and...
View ArticleNational pilgrimage stops in Chicago reveal life-changing encounters with the...
CHICAGO (OSV News) — A permanent pilgrim on the northern National Eucharistic Pilgrimage route heading toward Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress in July said at a stop in the Chicago...
View ArticleChinese Catholics gather in Chicago to discuss the church’s challenges in...
CHICAGO (OSV News) — An Aug. 2-4 conference in Chicago on the life of the Catholic Church in China covered both the difficulties and strengths of being a church under a heavily regulatory communist...
View ArticlePandemic is officially over, but will Communion chalices make comeback at Mass?
CHICAGO (OSV News) — After the federal government declared a health emergency in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic churches in the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to provide the Eucharist, the...
View ArticleYoung Chicago priest under investigation for alleged child abuse during...
CHICAGO (OSV News) — The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Sept. 6 that a state investigation is underway into alleged sexual abuse by a newly ordained priest. In letters addressed to the two churches...
View Article‘Livin’ on a prayer’: Catholic-raised Bon Jovi helps save woman on Nashville...
Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi reportedly saved a woman’s life when he talked her into stepping off the ledge of a bridge over the river in Nashville, Tennessee, Sept. 10. In a video shared by the...
View ArticleWestern New York diocese plans to halve its 160 parishes by June 2025
The Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y., plans to reduce the total number of its 160 parishes by 51 percent following a Sept. 10 announcement of final decisions on closures and mergers. Father Bryan Zielenieski,...
View ArticleCardinal questions ‘canonical status’ of synod because so many non-bishops...
PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — A former Vatican doctrinal chief cast sharp criticism on the Synod on Synodality days ahead of the synod’s second and final session starting Oct. 2. German Cardinal Gerhard...
View Article