By MARILYN RODRIGUES SYDNEY (OSV News) – The joy of Eastertide has turned to shock and bewilderment across Sydney’s Catholic community in the wake of a deadly knife attack at Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre on April 13, in which seven people were killed and a dozen injured, including a nine-month-old baby. Archbishop Anthony Fisher of … Read More about Eastertide joy turns to tears as Sydney Catholics mourn horrific knife attack’s victims
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Still sick, Pope has aide read his audience talk on envy and pride
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Cardinal Schönborn warns of schism as Rome halts German bishops’ vote on lay committee
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Catholic mother of 2 killed in Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade mass shooting
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By JUSTIN McLELLAN, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Lengthy, abstract homilies are “a disaster”, so preaching should be limited to 10 minutes, Pope Francis said. Speaking off the cuff to diocesan liturgical directors on January 20, the Pope said that homilies are not academic conferences. “I sometimes hear … Read More about Long homilies are ‘a disaster’, keep it under 10 minutes, Pope says
By KATE SCANLON, OSV News WASHINGTON (OSV News) – Tens of thousands of pro-life advocates descended upon the US capital for the 50th March for Life on Januart 20 — the first national march since the overturn of the US Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that initially prompted the … Read More about ‘We are not yet done’: March for Life holds first national event after overturn of Roe v Wade
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
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