Among American Catholic priests are heroes too often unsung: military chaplains. Through two centuries of warfare and peacekeeping, priests serving as chaplains in the armed services have been a lifeline for the enlisted. Our Sunday Visitor columnist Monsignor Owen Campion recounts the
A leading Catholic lawmaker and religious freedom advocate has called on the Biden administration to support the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services in a dispute over a long-running Catholic pastoral care contract that a leading U.S. military medical center awarded to
The end of a long-running Catholic pastoral care contract at a leading U.S. military medical center highlights broader concerns about the federal contracting process for such services, according to the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and several lawmakers.
"The government cannot supervise
In March, the Associated Press published a story looking at how the Navy is employing more chaplains with the hope of helping to stem the rising tide of suicides by sailors. Father Jim Hinkle, a Catholic priest and an active-duty chaplain for
UPDATED (OSV News) — Hours before Holy Week began, a U.S. major military medical center ended a long-standing contract to provide Catholic pastoral care to veterans and service members, violating their religious freedom, according to Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S.
Ukraine's Catholic military chaplains will eventually be "catalysts for the rebuilding" of their war-torn nation, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose three days in Ukraine included at times sheltering with Ukrainians as Russian missiles relentlessly rained down
Minnesota Army National Guard Lt. Nick Kehtel found himself in the middle of California's Mojave Desert in July as part of a training session simulating war conditions.
He was able to attend Mass on all 23 days of training. And he was grateful.
"If
In the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, Conventual Franciscan Father Ignatius Maternowski parachuted behind German lines near Guetteville, France, a small village in Normandy, with the men of the U.S. Army’s eighty-second Airborne Division. By nightfall, Father Maternowski was dead, believed