In a lengthy interview with OSV News, Archbishop Richard G. Henning addressed his recent appointment as archbishop of Boston and shared his hopes for his new ministry.
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Jerusalem cardinal: Interfaith dialogue in the Holy Land is in ‘crisis’
“Right now, Christians, Jews and Muslims cannot meet with one another, at least not publicly,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, patriarch of Jerusalem.
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Bell rung by Olympic champions will ring inside rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral during every Mass
During the Paris Olympic Games, track champions rang the bronze bell located close to the finish line. In December, that same bell will ring in the newly reopened Notre Dame Cathedral during the most sacred part of the Mass.
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Nicaragua forces the closure of more than 25 Catholic religious orders and lay groups
Totalitarian Nicaraguan State under President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo attacks Catholic groups with forced closures.
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Cardinal Cupich offers invocation at DNC in Chicago as second Catholic president Joe Biden passes on the torch
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, prayed for God’s guidance in ‘this new chapter of our nation’s history’ as Joe Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer.
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Vatican expels founder of Peru’s influential Sodalitium religious movement after probe into sexual abuse
The movement was founded in 1971 as a lay community to recruit “soldiers for God,” one of several Catholic societies born as a conservative reaction to the left-leaning liberation theology movement that swept through Latin America
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Pope Francis says death penalty fuels ‘poison’ of revenge in preface to new book on prison chaplaincy
Drawing on work of lay Catholic prison chaplain Dale Recinella, Pope Francis paints death penalty as toxic and ineffective.
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St. Maximilian Kolbe: Auschwitz martyr and a cautionary tale for humanity
On August 14, Catholics commemorate the death of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar who sacrificed his life to save a fellow prisoner from execution by the Nazis.
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Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker: ‘I stand behind what I said’ in commencement speech
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker said Wednesday he was “very intentional” in the comments he made during a polarizing college commencement speech in May and that he stands behind what he said then.
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Catholics: Beware of today’s false prophets
False prophets tell us that global warming will not happen, microplastics do not cause cancer, guns will protect us, and the poor need to suffer to motivate them to work.