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KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — For Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, driving home for Christmas means taking a different route each year.
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Kyiv’s St. Nicholas Catholic church suffers damage during Russian ...
3 days ago · KYIV, Ukraine (OSV News) -- During a Dec. 20 Russian missile strike on Kyiv, Catholic St. Nicholas church, a significant architectural monument of the Ukrainian capital, suffered damage. According to the church's rector, Father Pavlo Vyshkovsky, cited by the Religious Information Service of Ukraine, the windows in the …
Archbishop Gänswein reflects on his new diplomatic role
5 days ago · VILNIUS, Lithuania (OSV News) -- Archbishop Georg Gänswein, appointed in June as apostolic nuncio to the Baltic states, has shared his insights on his new diplomatic and pastoral responsibilities. Previously serving as Pope Benedict XVI’s private secretary and later as prefect of the Papal Household, he was sent home to Germany by Pope Francis in
OSV News Showcase | March 1, 2024
Mar 1, 2024 · While recent talks with cartels didn’t bring peace pact, Mexican bishops remain open to dialogue. Priests have long mediated disputes the length of Latin America, intervening as uniquely positioned interlocutors among predominantly Catholic populations.
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Dec 31, 2023 · (OSV News) — Sorrow, anger and renewed calls to support Ukraine have been issued by Ukrainian Catholic and other Ukrainian clergy, following a massive... (Editors’ Note: Updated with new information Jan. 1 at 2 p.m. EST) MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Since Christmas, Nicaraguan police and ...
OSV News Showcase | October 18, 2024
Oct 18, 2024 · LA Archdiocese to settle more than 1,300 historic abuse claims in new agreement. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached an agreement in principle worth $880 million to compensate more than a thousand decades-old claims of childhood sexual abuse.
OSV News Showcase | March 22, 2024
Mar 22, 2024 · Abortions soar to highest number in over a decade post Dobbs, study finds. Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, told OSV News that these reported increases in abortion “in recent years, both before and now with the Dobbs decision, highlight the importance of what we in the pro-life cause have always said: that we must not only make abortion illegal, but rather it should be ...
OSV News Showcase | December 1, 2023
Dec 1, 2023 · ‘No one listened,’ says alleged Rupnik victim, recalling fight with church system for truth. Instead of taking actions to ensure justice and reparation and the necessary support for the complainant, Gloria Branciani was ridiculed, accused of being responsible for her improper relationship with Father Rupnik and punished: “In August 1993, (Father) Špidlík advised me to write a letter of ...
OSV News Showcase | November 3, 2023
Nov 3, 2023 · Analysis: Rupnik affair challenges church to turn synod synthesis into concrete proposals in 2024. The Rupnik affair poses a real test to not only the synod’s members, but the whole church, which has 11 months before the synod assembly reconvenes, to reflect on the synod’s synthesis report released Oct. 28 and discern what “co-responsible” decision-making should look like for ...