By Kate Scanlon, OSV News WASHINGTON (OSV News) – After the failures of two banks in March, the US government has taken steps to prevent similar failures and the risks such failures would present to the economy. The precarious situation illustrates what one Catholic commentator described as the need for government and banks to take seriously … Read More about Twin bank failures underscore ‘solemn obligation’ of banking prudence for common good of society
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‘Fraternity, tears, smiles’: On tenth anniversary as pontiff, Pope Francis shares hopes for the future
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN ... Read More about ‘Fraternity, tears, smiles’: On tenth anniversary as pontiff, Pope Francis shares hopes for the future
King Charles III meets Catholic delegation, other religious leaders ahead of coronation
by JONATHAN LUXMORE (OSV News) OXFORD, England ... Read More about King Charles III meets Catholic delegation, other religious leaders ahead of coronation
Crisis of love today is a crisis of vision
When Christopher West was a teenager in the 1980s, ... Read More about Crisis of love today is a crisis of vision
By DAMIEN FISHER, OSV News (OSV News) – As Theodore McCarrick faces criminal charges for allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy, the disgraced former cardinal’s legal defence team is now claiming he is in steep mental and physical decline and therefore not able to stand trial. McCarrick’s lawyers filed a motion … Read More about McCarrick’s lawyers seek to prove disgraced former cardinal not competent to stand trial
TOULON, France (OSV News) – Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world’s oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Tuesday. “There is great sadness but . . . it was her desire to join her … Read More about Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118
By GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV News (OSV News) – Are science and religion fundamentally opposed to each other? That common notion has “worked a lot of mischief”, said Bishop Robert Barron, who launched a new conference held on January 13-14 to show how the Catholic Church champions “the unity of faith … Read More about First-ever Wonder Conference boldly goes to frontier of ‘science and religion’
By MARIA WIERING, OSV News (OSV News) – When Adriana Vasquez was working in marriage ministry for the Archdiocese of New York two decades ago, she helped enrich the theology expressed in its materials and workshops for Spanish-speaking Catholics. She later discovered, however, that excellent content was not enough. “I … Read More about Personal accompaniment key to Vatican’s expanded vision for marriage formation
ROME (CNS) – Australian Cardinal George Pell, who died in Rome on January 10, never made a secret of his staunch adherence to established Catholic moral teaching and his concern about fellow cardinals and bishops he saw as willing to abandon that teaching. But in interviews he always was respectful … Read More about In article published after his death, Cardinal Pell criticises synod process
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis praised the late Australian Cardinal George Pell as a faithful servant of God and of the Catholic Church, who steadfastly followed the Lord even “in the hour of trial” when he was jailed for sexual abuse before his conviction was overturned by Australia’s highest … Read More about Cardinal Pell dies at 81; he kept the faith even amid tribulation, Pope says
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