LOCAL
While the Jubilee Year of Hope officially began in Rome Dec. 24, in our diocese, Bishop Barry C. Knestout celebrated…
Spiritual gifts abounded for the seminarians of the diocese and their families, who were treated to Mass and a Christmas…
On Dec. 8, Bishop Barry C. Knestout spent the Second Sunday of Advent just south of Lake Anna. But he…
The night of Dec. 11, 2024, youth and campus ministers were honored by the diocesan Office for Evangelization at Appreciation…
NATIONAL
(OSV News) — Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans offered prayers for victims of what he described as a…
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Former President Jimmy Carter died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains, Georgia, his presidential library…
(OSV News) — Olivia Hussey, known for her iconic on-screen portrayals of Mary and Mother Teresa, died Dec. 27 at…
GETHSEMANE, Ky. (OSV News) — Amid the knobs of Nelson County in central Kentucky, a 125-foot water tower rises above…
GLOBAL
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Thirteen Catholic “missionaries” were killed in 2024, most of them during the commission of a robbery,…
MUAN, South Korea (OSV News) — A passenger plane arriving from Bangkok exploded after skidding off the runway at a…
IHIALA, Nigeria (OSV News) — In a dark sign of descending security in Africa’s most populous country, a Catholic priest…
ROME (CNS) — Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on…