While the religiously unaffiliated are on the rise globally, something curious is also happening: Some dioceses have reported significant upticks in adults preparing to enter the Catholic Church this Easter. Sherry Anne Weddell, the co-founder…
As bishops and archbishops from the worldwide Anglican Communion sever links with England’s first female archbishop of Canterbury, citing her church’s “false teaching,” Catholics are being urged to maintain friendly ties while dropping illusions…
Some current public debates about Zionism, including among Catholics, are at odds with the Catholic understanding of the term, which itself has an array of meanings, as does the word “Israel” itself. Accordingly, broad catechetical education…
Hindus and Jews are much more likely to have a four-year college degree than Americans in other religious groups, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS). Seven-in-ten Hindus and 65 percent of Jews have a…
Mexico’s Catholic leaders have urged the country’s political leaders to listen to victims of violence, seek input from all sectors of society, and work together toward pacifying the country as the nation confronts rampant insecurity. Swaths of…
Caroline De Sury, OSV News Thursday, December 18, 2025 Fifty French Catholics killed under German Nazism were beatified Saturday, during a Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, an event that recognized their witness of faith during World War…
Catholics beware: Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger apparently doesn’t consider it disqualifying for someone to endorse an activist group that considers the official teaching of your faith “hateful.” Stanley Meador, formerly the special…
ISTANBUL — In a remarkable moment of Church history, leaders of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches have come together to officially denounce Wham's "Last Christmas".Pope Leo and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew came together in…
At a shrine topped by a 28-foot-tall statue of Our Lady of Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV listened to stories of unshakable faith amid war, injustice, and suffering. The pope began yesterday at the tomb of St. Charbel at the Monastery of St. Maron in…
I realize the title of this article may sound like an oxymoron. However, the original Protestant Reformers never viewed themselves as abandoning the Catholic Church. The term “Catholic,” which simply means universal, was not synonymous with…
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