Harrison Butker’s commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, has attracted a great deal of attention from the media. But there’s more to the Kansas City Chiefs kicker’s speech than the headlines and soundbites will allow. In particular, he strikes at
BALTIMORE (OSV News) — Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio is just beginning his second year of his three-year term as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He sat down with OSV News during a break at the fall general assembly of bishops in
Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Conn., provided an update on the newly launched Institute on the Catechism to the U.S. Catholic bishops during their annual fall plenary assembly Nov. 15 in Baltimore, Md. Housed within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’
The Peruvian Congress approved a law Nov. 9 that establishes that human life begins with conception, so a conceived, unborn child must have his or her rights protected from the beginning. Until then, the legislation determined that only after birth are people
The U.S. Catholic bishops approved supplements to “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” — a teaching document on the political responsibility of Catholics — on Nov. 15 during their annual fall plenary assembly in Baltimore, Md.
“The purpose of these items is to address
The first public day of the U.S. Catholic bishops' fall plenary assembly in Baltimore saw elections to important posts, while public presentations chiefly centered on synodality, the use of technology in the liturgy and advancing the cause for canonization of a champion
An estimated tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall Nov. 14 in a show of solidarity for Israel in the wake of the terrorist group Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on that country and a protest of antisemitism around the
The March for Life's theme for its 2024 event will be "Pro-Life: With Every Woman, For Every Child," the group's president announced Nov. 14. The March for Life first took place in Washington in 1974 in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 14 urged his brother bishops and all the Catholic faithful to "continue to pray" when "peace seems so far away" in today's world.
"Our thoughts readily turn to the Holy Land, sacred to
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, discusses with OSV News his experience of the Synod on Synodality and where he sees some of the things discussed could benefit the church's evangelizing mission now.
A group of Benedictine nuns from Argentina will move into the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in January. The monastery in the Vatican Gardens was where retired Pope Benedict XVI resided until his death.