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Reading 1 2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law. Most admirable and worthy of everlasting remembrance was the mother, who saw her seven sons perish in a single […]

Reading I 2 Maccabees 6:18-31 Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes, a man of advanced age and noble appearance, was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork.  But preferring a glorious death to a life of defilement, he spat out the meat, and went forward of his own accord to the instrument of […]

Readings for the Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious Reading 1 1 Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63 [From the descendants of Alexander's officers] there sprang a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome. He became king in the year one hundred and thirty seven of the kingdom of […]

Reading 1 Malachi 3:19-20a Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven,  when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble,  and the day that is coming will set them on fire,  leaving them neither root nor branch,  says the LORD of hosts.  But for you who fear my name, there will arise […]

Reading I Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9 When peaceful stillness compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent, Your all-powerful word, from heaven’s royal throne bounded, a fierce warrior, into the doomed land, bearing the sharp sword of your inexorable decree. And as he alighted, he filled every place with death; he still […]

If people do not see themselves as "caretakers of the garden of creation, we end up becoming its destroyers," Pope Leo XIV said. The post Believers must care for the poor and creation, pope says first appeared on OSV News.

Insisting that the dignity of all people, including immigrants, must be respected, Pope Leo XIV asked U.S. Catholics and "people of goodwill" to read and listen to the U.S. bishops' recent pastoral message on the topic. The post Pope calls treatment of migrants in U.S. ‘extremely disrespectful’ first appeared on OSV News.

On Nov. 17, the U.N. Security Council voted 13-0 in favor of the U.S.-backed "Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict," with Russia and China abstaining. The post UN vote on Trump’s Gaza plan ‘sends powerful message’ for peace in Holy Land, says Bishop Zaidan first appeared on OSV News.

Prominent Catholic philosophical and legal scholar Robert P. George has resigned from the board of the conservative Heritage Foundation. The post Catholic scholar quits Heritage over its president’s defense of Tucker Carlson interview first appeared on OSV News.

Priests feel "faithful to their calling," useful, "in their place," and generally "at peace," if less idealistic than when they began. The post ‘Happy as a priest in France’: Survey shows increased satisfaction, fulfillment among clergy first appeared on OSV News.

The "Honoring Those Who Were Enslaved" project is the result of "engagements with the community of descendants of enslaved people in Maryland." The post Washington Archdiocese’s project honors those enslaved by Catholic Church in Maryland first appeared on OSV News.

"I have a devotion to the Virgin Mary," the artist said. "When I think of the Virgin Mary, I think of her as (living) in every woman." The post Indigenous elders, New York artist, Seattle cathedral join to create St. Kateri icon first appeared on OSV News.

The repressive Penal Laws enforced under British rule banned the public practice of the Catholic faith and persecuted Catholic priests and people. The post Catholics in Dublin now have a dedicated cathedral for first time in 500 years first appeared on OSV News.