(OSV News) — The president of the Polish bishops’ conference has bitterly criticized demands for liberal change by the church in neighboring Germany and urged the pope not to allow …
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(OSV News) — In a rambling red-brick house on the western edge of Oxford, England, a melancholy desk sits at a bay window looking out over tangled woodland. In the …
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(OSV News) — As Catholic delegates arrived in Rome from across the globe for the Synod of Bishops on Synodality Oct. 4-29 and continued their retreat ahead of the assembly, …
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(OSV News) — A Christian campaigner has urged Catholic church leaders and the Vatican to condemn worsening human rights abuses in Belarus, after another Catholic priest was arrested in front …
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(OSV News) — A Ukrainian Catholic bishop has urged Russians to learn lessons from the fate of mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, and choose “true democracy” rather than “an unstable dictatorship.” …
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(OSV News) — Spain’s newest archbishop has urged his country’s politicians to prioritize national interests, amid fears of political deadlock following July 23 elections, in which neither the conservative opposition …
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(OSV News) — Catholics in Lithuania have urged their bishops to follow other countries’ example in setting up an inquiry on sexual abuse in the church in the wake of …
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(OSV News) — While the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church backed President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to put down a military rebellion, a Catholic bishop in Ukraine warned current events presented …
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(OSV News) — A Catholic parish priest accused of “offending state authorities” in Belarus said he understood the hardships facing prisoners of conscience after just four days in jail. “I …
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(OSV News) — Victims of clerical sex abuse have bitterly criticized plans by France’s Catholic bishops for all clergy to include a scannable QR code on their identity cards certifying …
