CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (OSV News) — When you are born in a major pilgrimage destination, you grow up with a treasure — a national shrine and sacred image — within reach …
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“Now the trial can begin soon, allowing the victims to participate as injured parties and not just as witnesses,” said lawyer Laura Sgrò.
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Survivor Jakub Pankowiak said the Polish bishops did not want to set up a fully independent commission to investigate past clergy sex abuse cases.
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(OSV News) — While much was done during Pope Francis’ pontificate to tackle the global abuse crisis — a crisis moving at differing speeds in the church, depending on the country …
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His mosaics, long used to mark major feast days online, were recently replaced or left blank — a shift many survivors say is long overdue.
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Pope Leo XIV has named Father Simon Peter Engurait, as the bishop of Houma-Thibodaux.
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“This region is used to risks that come simply from the fact that what surrounds those villages are really high mountains,” said Polish Father Robert Biel.
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Cardinal Stephen Chow of Hong Kong says he is hopeful the new pontiff will continue along the same path of dialogue and engagement with China as his predecessor — a …
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ROME (OSV News) — On May 8, Father Thomas Joseph White, the American rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, was at St. Peter’s Square with hundreds of thousands …
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Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner under Francis, said the 133 cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel “turned out to be a wonderful instrument of the Holy Spirit.”
