Gaza Pastor: Pray for Peace, Hostage Release, and Aid

As the Israel-Hamas war nears its fourth week, the pastor of Gaza’s only Catholic church urged prayers for peace, the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid, telling OSV News his parishioners are experiencing “a terrible situation, a crazy situation.”

USCCB President Talks About His Synod Experience

Welcoming people into the church and helping them enter a relationship with Jesus always involves a call to conversion, said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Pope Accepts Resignation of Polish Bishop in Whose Diocese ‘Sexual Orgy’ Took Place

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop in whose diocese a priest organized a “sexual orgy” as Polish media reported. The nunciature did not indicate in an Oct. 24 statement the reasons why Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak of Sosnowiec resigned, but commentators in Poland expressed surprise at the news of what they called a “fast-track” resignation.

Love of God Inseparable From Our Love of Others

Last Sunday we reflected briefly on the exchange between Christ and the Pharisees in which He delivers the timeless exhortation to “render unto God what is God’s.”

Can Art Change Your Life? Pope Francis Says It Can

Each time I re-read the Holy Father’s message to Catholic artists which he delivered in Rome last May I experience the excitement that I felt the first time I read it. I am wondering if readers of this column share my views about the importance of art in our lives and also whether they think of art in relation to their faith in the way that Pope Francis relates art to religious faith.