Pope’s ‘complex’ condition remains stable; he continues to rest, work March 7, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis continues to rest, pray, follow his doctors’ prescribed therapies and work a bit throughout the day, the Vatican press office said March 7.
As funding freeze hits some Catholic agencies, others operate minus government money March 7, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Disaster Relief, DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News Catholic agencies including Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Relief Services and Jesuit Relief Service/USA are facing major setbacks in the wake of the Trump administration’s 90-day pause and review of federal funding to numerous nonprofit organizations providing domestic and overseas aid to migrants, refugees and people in need.
St. Joseph novena guides those ‘on the path to adoption’ March 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Saints, World News The faithful are invited to pray for those whose lives are touched by adoption, seeking the intercession of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus.
Pastoral center in northern Myanmar among latest Catholic sites bombed by governing military junta March 7, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News A Catholic pastoral center in northern Myanmar is among the latest Christian sites bombed by the country’s governing military junta.
Christians, Muslims can proclaim beauty of diversity, Vatican says March 7, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News In a world where people are tempted to build walls to exclude others, Christians and Muslims are challenged to build, through dialogue, a shared future based on fraternity, leaders of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue said in a message to Muslims around the world.
Rice Bowl needed ‘now more than ever’ as hunger rises, government aid falls, says leader March 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Lent, News, World News CRS, the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community, is marking the 50th anniversary of its Rice Bowl program, which has raised more than $350 million to support domestic and overseas poverty relief efforts.
Amid U.S. foreign aid freeze, CRS’ Rice Bowl could be in ‘its strongest moment,’ says founder March 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Giving, Lent, News, World News At the start of Catholic Relief Services’ 2025 Rice Bowl initiative — an annual Lenten program blending almsgiving and prayer to provide aid to overseas and domestic aid — OSV News spoke with Rice Bowl founder Monsignor Robert Coll, a retired priest of the Diocese of Allentown, Pa., about the program as it marks its 50th year.
Pope, in short audio message, thanks people for their prayers March 7, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News On his 21st day in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis recorded a 27-second audio message thanking people for their prayers.
Mary: The perfect Lenten companion March 7, 2025By Robert Fastiggi OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent In celebrating Lent and in every season of the liturgical year, it is good to recall the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, that the “Church honors with special love the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, who is joined by an inseparable bond to the saving work of her Son.”
Celebrating the four women doctors of the church March 7, 2025By Colleen Pressprich Filed Under: Commentary, Saints The doctors of the church are the saints that many of us need to understand the faith better, and more than that, to grow in our relationship with the Lord.
Catholic Sisters Week offers virtual, interactive ways to honor women religious March 7, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vocations, World News The 12th anniversary of Catholic Sisters Week (March 8-14) is celebrating their many ministries and achievements with campaigns and activities that aim to educate, inform and even surprise.
Fasting through Mom’s Lenten meals March 7, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent In retrospect, all these meals were as awful as they sound, but — whether intentionally or not — they delivered a message that our fasting and our abstinences were meant to be taken seriously and not subverted through technicalities.
