WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) -- Prominent Polish Catholics have voiced fears of unrest, after the country's state-run television's information and regional channels were forced off the air Dec. 20 during a takeover of public media by prime minister Donald Tusk's new government.
Efforts continued throughout 2023 to tackle clerical sex crimes in the Catholic Church, with church or state reports being published in several European countries and the case of Father Marko Rupnik making numerous waves of headlines.
When Ukraine's embattled citizens gather this Christmas, their rich festivities will feel symbolically different -- as the festival is celebrated for the first time on Dec. 25, in line with the Western calendar.
"People here have long insisted we should be united around
As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is celebrating its 75th birthday, the Vatican's Permanent Representative in Geneva, Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, organized a symposium that aimed to focus on both human rights and care for creation.
The Dec. 8 symposium, co-sponsored by the
Ukrainian church leaders have joined anniversary commemorations of the 1932-1933 Holodomor, or Great Famine, in which millions died in a disaster deliberately engineered by Soviet Union rulers.
"Ninety years ago, Ukrainians were killed in cold blood under the direct order and elaborate plan
The president of the Spanish bishops' conference has appealed for calm following mass protests against the planned release of jailed Catalan separatists under a deal with the new socialist-led government.
"I'm asking political leaders and opinion formers to do everything possible to lower
The president of the Polish bishops' conference has bitterly criticized demands for liberal change by the church in neighboring Germany and urged the pope not to allow them to dominate the Rome Synod on Synodality.
"Awareness of the power of truth sustains my
When Mokotow prison was opened as the Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic in March, six years after shedding its last inmates, it was agreed regular Masses and liturgies should be held to dispel the site's
ROME (OSV News) -- Two days after news broke Father Marko Rupnik was incardinated by Slovenia's Koper diocese, the Vatican announced Oct. 27 that Pope Francis has lifted the statute of limitations on abuse accusations against Father Rupnik to allow for a
"Jon Fosse gives voice, with elegance and beauty, to the mystery of faith -- having read him with reverence for years, I think our country is blessed to have a poet of his stature," said Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim.
"A Catholic writer