‘God is with us in our car’: Ukraine combat medic brings faith, healing to the battlefield
LVIV, Ukraine (OSV News) — Orysya Masna used to wonder why she had ever undertaken first-aid training. The 21-year-old social work student, now entering her senior year at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, told OSV News she had attended fall 2021 classes led by a military paramedic and had wondered, “Why am I studying this?” […]
Each a Thread in the Tapestry
Each a Thread in the Tapestry By Sheila Cavanaugh July 5, 2023 I was introduced to death at the age of five in the home of my great aunts, Elizabeth and Gertrude, who lived across the street from my family. My mother dressed me up one day and walked me over to visit the two […]
Missionaries say ‘shock’ of papal visit to Mongolia a chance to introduce the faith (Crux)
Pope Francis will begin a five-day apostolic journey to Mongolia on August 31, Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, announced in June.
USCCB committee chairman welcomes 303 Creative v. Elenis decision (USCCB)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee for Religious Liberty, welcomed 303 Creative v. Elenis, the 6-3 decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado website designer should not be compelled to create websites celebrating same-sex marriages. “This case was never about discrimination. It was about moral disagreement,” […]
Archbishop Fernández, new DDF prefect, says he is ‘not qualified’ to handle abuse cases (Crux)
Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, revealed in a Facebook post that he originally declined the appointment because he felt unqualified to address abuse cases. “The task [of prefect] includes the issue of child abuse, and I do not feel prepared nor trained for these […]
South Africa: Bishop Sipuka reflects on recent ad limina visit to Pope Francis.
In his reflection on the recently concluded ad limina visit by the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, the Bishop of Mthatha Diocese, Sithembele Sipuka, highlighted the need to strengthen the “self-sustenance” drive for the Catholic Church in the Southern region. Read all
Vatican to collect stories of Christian martyrs killed since 2000
Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on June 28, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Jul 5, 2023 / 04:02 am (CNA). The Vatican announced Wednesday the creation of a commission to research and catalog the stories of Christian martyrs from the third millennium. In a letter published July 5, Pope […]
Living for Jesus in the World: Taking a Perpetual Virginity Vow
Kaitlin Simone Davis, 29, is all smiles upon becoming a consecrated virgin in the ‘Rite of Consecration to a Life of Virginity’ celebrated by Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel on June 24. Unlike a sister or nun, Kaitlin Davis doesn’t belong to an order or wear a habit; she lives and works in the world, and […]
Synod-2023: Reversing Vatican II?
The first words of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church — one of the council’s two most important texts — signaled a decisive development in Catholic self-understanding. Rather than begin its reflection […]
New Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo for Catholics of the Latin rite
Franciscan Father Hanna Jallouf is aware of challenges experienced by Christians in Syria. During the height of the civil war, he chose to stay and serve his community in areas dominated by jihadists.