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Texas Carmelites may be excommunicated after public letter rejecting Bishop Olson’s authority

OSV News August 21, 2023

Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth said Aug. 19 that a community of Carmelites in his diocese, and their prioress in particular, may have incurred excommunication after posting a letter online Aug. 18 saying their community no longer recognizes his authority, claiming that he has interfered with and humiliated them since initiating an investigation into their prioress in late April.

People attend a 'Stop Genocide of Ukraine People' rally and protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Times Square in New York City April 9, 2022. U.S. Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak has called for renewed prayer, advocacy in support of Ukraine after recently released report finds Russia has breached all terms of 1948 Genocide Convention in its invasion of that nation. (OSV News photo/Jeenah Moon, Reuters)

Genocide report on Ukraine ‘worst news possible,’ says archbishop

OSV News August 18, 2023

A new report on Russian atrocities in Ukraine is both “the worst possible news” and “welcome,” a Ukrainian Catholic archbishop told OSV News.

Baltimore City Police collected more than 300 guns during a gun buyback and resource event Aug. 5, 2023, at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center in West Baltimore. (OSV News Photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)

Baltimore Archdiocese’s gun buyback effort takes 362 firearms off streets

OSV News August 17, 2023

Father Michael Murphy, pastor of St. Joseph’s Monastery in Baltimore’s Irvington neighborhood, is not sure how much of a dent an Aug. 5 gun buyback effort will make in the deadly violence that plagues cities such as Baltimore.

Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati concelebrates Mass with other U.S. bishops from Ohio and Michigan at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Dec. 11, 2019. The archbishop sent letter to the faithful opposing a proposed abortion amendment on the Ohio November ballot. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Ohio archbishop urges Catholics to reject abortion amendment

OSV News August 16, 2023

Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr has urged Catholics to reject a Nov. 7 ballot initiative on abortion he called an “extraordinary and dangerous attempt to radically reshape Ohio through a constitutional amendment that does nothing to aid women or promote life.”

Wiktoria Ulma is pictured writing at a table with her oldest daughter, Stasia. The Ulma family secretly hid eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War. The Nazis killed the family and the Jews they were sheltering early in the morning March 24, 1944. The Vatican declared the Ulma family martyrs Dec. 17, 2022, and they will be beatified Sept. 10, 2023. (OSV News photo/courtesy Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

Polish village prepares for Ulma family’s beatification

OSV News August 15, 2023

A few years ago, people of the little village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland, would never have thought that in the summer of 2023, they would have dozens of guests coming to visit every day from all over the world.

Cillian Murphy stars in the movie “Oppenheimer.” The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.(OSV News photo/Melinda Sue Gordon, Universal)

‘Oppenheimer’ Gives Catholics Opportunity to Explain Injustice of Nuclear Weapons

OSV News August 14, 2023

The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb which then led to the dropping of two such bombs over Japan in the twilight days of World War II.

Catholics appeal for help as Biden declares Maui’s deadly fires a federal emergency

OSV News August 11, 2023

HONOLULU (OSV News) — Catholic Charities Hawai’i in the Honolulu Diocese has appealed for donations to help the agency meet the housing, food and other

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Texas Carmelites may be excommunicated after public letter rejecting Bishop Olson’s authority

Genocide report on Ukraine ‘worst news possible,’ says archbishop

Baltimore Archdiocese’s gun buyback effort takes 362 firearms off streets

Ohio archbishop urges Catholics to reject abortion amendment

Polish village prepares for Ulma family’s beatification

‘Oppenheimer’ Gives Catholics Opportunity to Explain Injustice of Nuclear Weapons

Catholics appeal for help as Biden declares Maui’s deadly fires a federal emergency

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