By Maria Wiering OSV News ST. PAUL, Minn. — Mike Wavra thinks of the 2024 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage as “an opportunity to walk with the Lord.” He and his wife, Cindi, both 65-year-old retirees, plan to join the pilgrimage at its northern launch point in Minnesota in May 2024, and then walk for about a […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Does original sin need an update?
QUESTION CORNER Q: My Catholic grandmother used to say that “original sin” was a sort of stamp all people since Adam and Eve have been born with, where God is still holding people guilty of Adam and Eve’s sin of disobedience even up through today, and that unless this stamp is removed through baptism, people […]
Priest class of 2023
Educational diversity, Eucharistic devotion are strong features of this year’s U.S. newly ordained, report says By Gina Christian OSV News Ahead of an annual day of prayer for vocations, a newly released report shows what one researcher called greater “consistency of age,” more diverse educational backgrounds and a commitment to Eucharistic adoration among men preparing […]
Jenna Marie Cooper: Does a prenup invalidate a marriage?
QUESTION CORNER Q: A friend is in a relationship where his fiancée won’t sign a prenuptial agreement because she thinks it would make the marriage invalid. It could be grounds for annulment. “For richer and for poorer” etc. What is the canonical opinion here? (Sydney, Australia) A: When we speak about a prenuptial agreement, or […]
Greg Erlandson: When heroes let us down
COMMENTARY My wife took Christ off our living room wall the other day. It was a postcard image of a mosaic created by Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. She couldn’t bear to have it up. Rupnik is a remarkably gifted artist. His mosaics adorn chapels and buildings from the St. John Paul II National Shrine in […]
Jaymie Stuart Wolfe: Welcome home, new Catholics
CALLED TO HOLINESS Becoming a Roman Catholic was one of the best decisions I ever made, and certainly the most life-changing. But in truth, I had only a vague notion of the deep waters I was wading into. What would have been helpful over the past 40 years? Here are a dozen things I wish […]
‘I don’t have the right to say no,’ says Jewish-born Catholic nun who perseveres to tell her Holocaust story
By Judith Sudilovsky OSV News JERUSALEM — When the raging ocean finally spit young Regine Canetti out, lifting her up a huge wave onto the thorny coast of the Turkish town of Silivri, she was stunned and shaken, her clothing fairly ripped from her body by the stormy sea. On Dec. 12, 1940, 19-year-old Canetti, […]
Four years after fire, Notre Dame making progress
By Paulina Guzik OSV News Notre Dame Cathedral will get its spire back by the end of 2023, more than four years after it was devastated by a fire. But to reopen the beloved symbol of France by Dec. 8, 2024, three conditions need to be met. These conditions are currently being carried out: cleaning […]
Synodality moves forward
Synod’s ‘messy,’ ‘joyful’ North American phase concludes with call to mission, moves to Rome By Gina Christian OSV News The final document for the North American phase of the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality was released April 12, capturing a process of dialogue and discernment that two participants described as ‘messy,’ ‘joyful’ and unifying — like […]
Children at risk
Transgender interventions pose serious medical consequences for minors, says surgeon By Gina Christian OSV News A former U.S. Navy surgeon with experience in reconstructive surgeries for combat-wounded troops, Deacon Patrick Lappert of the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama, recently shared with OSV News his insights on transgender interventions for children. Deacon Lappert, who speaks nationally on […]
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