14+ hour, 26+ min ago   (528+ words) (OSV News) — As his family expanded to 11 children, Paul Vaughn got used to others assuming he and wife Bethany were Catholics. During this year’s Easter Vigil, the 59-year-old Centerville, Tennessee, pro-life activist, Bethany Vaughn, and four of their children came…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1239+ words) (OSV News) — Weeks after the release of a synod study group report on controversial pastoral issues, experts have continued to express mixed opinions about the document’s treatment of same-sex attraction. “I think my overall summary of the synodal report, particularly…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (946+ words) (OSV News) — In one of his more snarky stories about clerical life — it’s called “The Forks” — the American Catholic writer J.F. Powers capsulizes the fraught relationship between a stuffy, self-important pastor and his young curate in a single, prickly…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (519+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 upheld West Virginia and Idaho state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex rather than their self-identified gender. The ruling comes after the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (711+ words) (OSV News) — Conor J. Reidy, the executive director of Outreach, a ministry for Catholics who identify as LGBTQ that seeks “to foster a Church where all people know they belong,” had a simple message for June 19-21 attendees of the Outreach…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (841+ words) (OSV News) — Lay groups in Germany involved in the local Church’s controversial Synodal Way say they will continue demanding the right to preach at Mass, defying a recent rejection by the Vatican of the proposal. In a press release published…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (823+ words) (OSV News) — Dialogue between the Vatican and German bishops regarding the blessing of same-sex unions is ongoing, and it was too soon to talk about sanctions, said the Vatican secretary of state. Speaking to journalists in Rome May 6, Cardinal Pietro…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1098+ words) ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV said on the papal plane April 23 that the Holy See does not approve of formalized blessings of same-sex couples, while stressing that Church unity “should not revolve around sexual matters” and…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (672+ words) (OSV News) — The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, New York, who operate a 42-bed nursing home that provides palliative care for the dying poor, are suing New York state over a 2024 law requiring long-term care facilities to use preferred pronouns and…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (554+ words) WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Department of Health and Human Services March 6 proposed scrapping a Biden administration policy requiring foster homes to affirm a child’s gender transition or sexual orientation. HHS posted a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” in the Federal Register…...