Holy Week/Triduum

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis is going without supplemental oxygen for longer periods and is continuing therapy to recover his voice and to recover his physical strength, the Vatican …

In Lent, we expect the sojourn through the desert, encountering spiritual heat, thirst, mirages that disappear as we draw near to them. Sometimes, we find ourselves encountering Christ there and …

The encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” was published 30 years ago this week, so it seems fitting that many of our stories looked at the sanctity of human life and our culture …

(OSV News) — Despite the considerable amount of controversy that surrounded it, including allegations of anti-Semitism, Mel Gibson’s 2004 biblical drama “The Passion of the Christ” was sufficiently popular that …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – Beginning with its 2017 pilot episode and a first full season that kicked off in 2019, showrunner Dallas Jenkins’ Gospel-based TV series “The Chosen” has …

A blessed Easter Octave to you! This week the OSV News wire saw coverage of earthquakes in Taiwan and the U.S., a recent report showing nearly all countries worldwide will …

HOUSTON (OSV News) — One by one, each bearing the name of a confirmation saint, more than 750 adults stepped forward in faith this January, well over the number of …

Did you know that the crown of thorns from Jesus’ passion still exists today? It is one of the most precious relics in the treasury of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — One year after the Ciudad Juárez migrant detention center fire, a caravan of approximately 2,000 migrants called “Viacrucis migrante” set out from the southern Mexican …

PARIS (OSV News) — In December 2023, Christophe Grunenwald, a knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem since 2000, was given a special task of representing …