Personnel, programs at diocesan Catholic Charities agencies help feed a hungry nation February 3, 2024By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, Social Justice, World News During Poverty Awareness Month, OSV News talked with Catholic Charities offices across the country — in Virginia, Mississippi and Nevada — to learn how they help feed a hungry nation.
Commitment, chastity, mercy are the building blocks for a happy marriage February 3, 2024By Mary Rice Hasson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life Communication is not the essential ingredient for a successful marriage; commitment is.
Waiting, not worldliness, leads to the Lord, pope tells religious February 2, 2024By Justin McLellan OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News After candlelight filled a darkened St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis asked consecrated men and women not to let their spirits “doze off” while waiting to encounter the Lord but to keep their hearts awake in anticipation “like an eternal flame.”
Bishops say outreach to people in ‘irregular’ relationships needs to go beyond blessings February 2, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Since the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith issued “Fiducia Supplicans” (“Supplicating Trust”) on “the pastoral meaning of blessings” Dec. 18, which proposed “to broaden and enrich the meaning of blessings,” including the extension of non-liturgical blessings to individuals in “irregular” extramarital sexual relationships — especially same-sex couples and cohabiting heterosexual couples — bishops around the world have distilled its pastoral guidance for their specific flocks.
Catholic, Anglican bishops vow to support one another, work together February 2, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Catholics and Anglicans pray and work for the day when they can celebrate the Eucharist together, they are called to support one another in situations of suffering, apologize together for times when they have sinned and work together to share the good news of God’s love, said bishops from both communities.
Vatican opens registration for May celebration of World Children’s Day February 2, 2024By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Although the Vatican knows most of the children who will come to Rome May 25-26 for the first World Children’s Day will be Italians, Pope Francis hopes local celebrations also will take place so that the whole Catholic Church can experience their joy and will show them the beauty of gathering with other believers, a cardinal said.
God calls everyone to the happiness of his kingdom, pope says February 2, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Missions, News, Vatican, World News Mission is tirelessly going out to all men and women to invite them with respect, joy and kindness, to encounter God and enter into communion with him, Pope Francis wrote in his message for World Mission Sunday.
Pope treated to ceremony at Vatican to usher in the Chinese New Year February 2, 2024By Carol Glatz OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Francis “dotted the eyes” of performers dressed as a dragon and lion in a traditional ceremony to symbolically awaken them and welcome in the Chinese New Year.
U.S. couple to serve as international coordinators for Retrouvaille marriage ministry February 2, 2024By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, World News For three days, the pair joined couples from around the world in Cape Town, South Africa, at the International Council Meeting of Retrouvaille, a peer ministry for those struggling in their marriages.
Navigating marriage after baby February 2, 2024By Simcha Fisher OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life No matter how much a baby was desired, his arrival will often turn a marriage on its ear. Take a snapshot of a married couple with a new baby and it may look less like a holy card and more like an S.O.S.
Author Flannery O’Connor shared her faith through fiction February 2, 2024By Russell Shaw Filed Under: Books, Commentary Flannery O’Connor was not an evangelist. She was an artist, one of the most gifted American fiction writers of the 20th century. But a profoundly Catholic theological vision informs her art, giving her stories resonance and depth that sound deep — and sometimes deeply disturbing — spiritual chords.
Self-deception, pride and the Willy Loman in all of us February 2, 2024By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary “Death of a Salesman” has much to say to us Christians as we navigate the highways and backroads of our own moral lives.
