Europe

KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) — “God did not create Auschwitz, God created man,” said Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz after the Jan. 27 commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the …

 WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — “I will not send away any Jewish child,” assured Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of …

(OSV News) — Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to remember German Nazi-inflicted sufferings and to counter a new …

ROME (OSV News) — Pope Francis met with José Enrique Escardó, the first member of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae to denounce abuse within the movement 25 years ago. Speaking to several journalists …

(OSV News) — Church and state leaders in Austria have praised the veteran Cardinal Christoph Schönborn on his retirement, at age 80, after three decades as archbishop of Vienna. Austria’s president, …

(OSV News) — Poland’s Catholic primate has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government of pandering to anti-church feeling, after it unveiled new plans to downgrade religious teaching in the traditionally Catholic …

PARIS (OSV News) — The president of French bishops’ conference has officially requested that prosecutors open an investigation into the case of Abbé Pierre, following new sexual assault allegations against the …

After Notre Dame Cathedral’s splendid reopening, the attention of Paris Catholics has now turned to the nearby Church of Notre Dame de Boulogne.

(OSV News) — Since the start of their February 2022 full-scale invasion, Russian forces have killed close to 70 clergy and destroyed more than 630 places of worship in Ukraine, according …

(OSV News) — Her wide smile and eyes beaming with joy are a signature of Sister Clare Crockett, a 33-year-old Northern Irish nun, who tragically died in the 2016 Ecuador …