News & Commentary
Responding to Zelenskyy adviser, Vatican bank denies Russian investments
OSV News
September 12, 2023
After an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that a financial relationship exists between the Vatican and Moscow, the Vatican bank said Sept. 9 that it "does not receive nor invest money from Russia."
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New York cardinal: Let us remember 9/11 but not forget the day after
OSV News
September 11, 2023
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York told OSV News the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks should be observed with memories of lives lost and impacted by the day's events.
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Congress Should Start Thinking: What Would Jesus Do?
Brian D. McLaren and Patrick Carolan
September 8, 2023
Our democracy is teetering on the edge, and inaction will help push it over. Leaders across the board, and especially across Christianity, need to lead with truth-telling if we are to live according to Jesus’ teachings. We would do well ...
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Catholic student center at Washington’s Howard University named for Sister Thea Bowman
OSV News
September 7, 2023
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University in the nation’s capital, noted that the campus ministry program there ...
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Synod assembly won’t be secret, but won’t be open to press, pope says
OSV News
September 6, 2023
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MONGOLIA (CNS) — The Synod of Bishops is not a television show or a parliamentary debate, and its discussions will not be open to the public or to reporters, Pope Francis said. “We must safeguard ...
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At Mass in Mongolia, pope sends ‘warm greetings’ to neighboring China
OSV News
September 5, 2023
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (CNSA) — While China allowed Pope Francis’ plane to cross its airspace on the way to Mongolia, an office of the Chinese Communist Party prevented any Catholic bishops or priests in the mainland from traveling there to see ...
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Jailed Catholic priests ‘used as hostages’ in Belarus