SÃO PAULO -- Church activists in the Amazon are worried about the Brazilian government's plan to exploit oil in a marine area close to the mouth of the Amazon River.
Oil drilling, an issue discussed in different meetings over the...
With National Suicide Prevention Month approaching in September, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia -- just a few miles from the nation's capital -- is urging mental health discussion and engagement, rather than avoidance and...
Sunday Scripture readings, September 3, 2023, 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jer 20:7-9 Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 Rom 12:1-2 Mt 16:21-27
Gospel asks us to step outside our comfort zone and consider: What does God think?
It’s probably the last thing...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis continues to make surprise additions to the College of Cardinals with plenty of "firsts," and perhaps the most surprising of those "firsts" this time is just how many cardinal electors there will be.
The pope...
As they open their doors for a new academic year, the nation's Catholic schools are enjoying overall strong growth, along with a firm commitment to mission, experts told OSV News.
"Our school system has grown two years in a row,"...
VATICAN CITY -- Although Russia's continuing war on Ukraine may make peace seem an impossible dream, Pope Francis urged young Russian Catholics to sow seeds of reconciliation and peace however they can.
But the pope also told them never to...
Visitors spent the weekend streaming into St. Elizabeth parish in Wilmington beginning Aug. 26 to get a glimpse of relics of the late Italian teenager Blessed Carlo Acutis.
Relics are a very deep and ancient Catholic tradition, according to Father...
ROME -- The Catholic Church in the United States has "a very strong reactionary" element that is well-organized and refuses to see how Catholic doctrine can and must grow and mature, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Portugal.
"I would like...
A Florida Catholic bishop condemned a racially motivated shooting that took place late Aug. 26 at a Dollar General store Aug. 26 in Jacksonville, saying, "Violence and bigotry have no place in our hearts or our society."
"A senseless act...
Sister Joan Corcoran, DC, religion teacher at the Cathedral of St. Peter School in Wilmington, throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the Aug. 25 Wilmington Blue Rocks game.
More than 100 parishioners from the Cathedral, St. Patrick and St....