January 2024

By Peter K. Kilpatrick It is fitting that as Catholic Schools Week begins and we mark the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education, that we …

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — When the creators of “The Chosen” started with a crowdfunding project in 2017, they would not have thought in their wildest dreams they would be …

(OSV News) — An upcoming webinar series hosted by a U.S. bishop will explore synodality through the prism of Jesus Christ’s words at the Last Supper. Bishop Daniel E. Flores …

By Kate Scanlon Peter Jesserer Smith(OSV News) — The state of Alabama carried out the first known execution by nitrogen gas Jan. 25 after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a …

By Caroline de Sury PARIS (OSV News) — France’s bishops stand in solidarity with farmers protesting across the country. After days of protests in the local provinces, farmers were determined …

(OSV News) — “The poor,” Jesus Christ says in Mark’s Gospel, “you will always have with you.” And indeed, 2,000-plus years later, the Oxford Poverty and Development Initiative — based …

(OSV News) — A retired Florida Catholic priest and his sister were killed in a multi-location rampage that also took the life of another man, left two police officers injured …

(OSV News) — The brutal aggression and sexual assault of a nun on the outskirts of Medellín, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia province, has spurred outrage in the Colombian …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — At least 18 Catholic bishops have signed on to a call by PAX Christi USA for the U.S. government to redirect military spending to fund human …

By Michael Kelly (OSV News) — Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to the small Catholic community in Turkey after gunmen attacked a church during Sunday morning Mass Jan. 28, …