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Reading 1 1 Peter 5:1-4 Beloved: I exhort the presbyters among you, as a fellow presbyter and witness to the sufferings of Christ and one who has a share in the glory to be revealed. Tend the flock of God in your midst, overseeing not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not […]

Reading 1 Genesis 11:1-9 The whole world spoke the same language, using the same words. While the people were migrating in the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, "Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire." They used bricks for […]

Reading 1 Genesis 9:1-13 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: “Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth. Dread fear of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon all the creatures that move about on the ground and all the […]

Reading 1 Genesis 8:6-13, 20-22 At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch he had made in the ark, and he sent out a raven, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth. Then he sent out a […]

Reading I Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart conceived was ever anything but evil, he regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was grieved. So the LORD said: “I will wipe out from the […]

NEW YORK (OSV News) – Resilient matriarchs have never failed to inspire audiences. From Jane Darwell’s Ma Joad in the 1940 screen version of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”… The post Movie Review: I’m Still Here first appeared on OSV News.

From behind prison walls to the heart of family life, or even through meals served from a food truck by friars, the Gospel is at work in ways both profound… The post Week in Review | Feb. 21, 2025 first appeared on OSV News.

Trump has signed more executive orders in his first 10 days than any recent president in their first 100 days — some may affect Catholics' climate concerns. The post Analysis: Will climate goals survive dismantling of Biden-era green initiatives? first appeared on OSV News.

(OSV News) — Catholic bishops, clergy and religious across the nation continue to weigh in on the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy, stressing the need to respect… The post Bishops, Catholic leaders continue to speak out against Trump immigration changes first appeared on OSV News.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican City State’s chief prosecutor said he was satisfied with a British court ruling that said a now-convicted financier involved in the Vatican purchase of… The post Vatican welcomes British court ruling in London property case first appeared on OSV News.

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — As the war in Ukraine reaches the tragic threshold of three years, OSV News is profiling Catholics who have become quiet heroes of help, perseverance and… The post Ukrainians need to be comforted ‘in their pain,’ chaplains say as war enters fourth year first appeared on OSV News.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While Pope Francis’ life is not in immediate danger, the level of multiple infections in his lungs means he is not completely “out of danger,” said… The post Pope’s chronic lung condition plus infection are serious, doctor says first appeared on OSV News.

OTTAWA, Ontario (OSV News) — With two recent episcopal appointments for Canada made by Pope Francis, the Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan in the province of Alberta is getting a coadjutor archbishop, and… The post Canada gets new bishops for dioceses in Alberta, Quebec first appeared on OSV News.