December 2024

(OSV News) — Bishops in the U.S. and Canada are exhorting the faithful to embrace the virtue of hope during the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year 2025, which Pope Francis will …

ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) — “The hands that made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of cattle,” G.K. Chesterton wrote in “The Everlasting Man.” …

(OSV News) — Pro-life and anti-euthanasia activists in Canada are decrying that government’s latest efforts to expand its assisted suicide policy by accepting “advance requests” — and a national survey on …

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — Speaking just hours after his wartime Christmas visit to Gaza City Holy Family Parish, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, delivered a poignant Christmas message …

(OSV News) — Community, connectedness and consciousness are key to staying sober amid the Christmas and New Year holidays, a Catholic recovery expert told OSV News. “One of the hallmarks of …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A key part of a jubilee in the Bible was releasing prisoners, and Catholics today can join a global campaign to press for the release of …

NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — Leaders of the Catholic Church in Nigeria expressed deep sorrow at the death of several people at one of the church’s Christmas charity events, as …

(OSV News) — Two days after the Holy See’s Dec. 18, 2023, release of “Fiducia Supplians,” Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, said in a statement that the declaration …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Several days after speaking with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he would commute most existing federal death sentences to life in prison. The …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Leading the recitation of the Angelus prayer from inside the chapel of his residence because of a cold, Pope Francis nevertheless blessed the baby Jesus figurines …