National & World News

TAICHUNG, Taiwan (OSV News) — Maryknoll Father Joyalito Tajonera describes in one word the almost 2 million workers who travel abroad from the Philippines each year and send money home to keep a troubled economy afloat.

ST. MEINRAD, Ind. (OSV News) — One of the biggest changes in priestly formation in the Catholic Church in a generation is gaining traction at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad.

(OSV News) — A decrease in religious belief remains a “significant challenge” in cultivating vocations to the priesthood, said a vocations expert at a recent conference.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Gospel does not divide, but unites, by urging people to be close to others in a spirit of service and peace, Pope Francis told visitors from South Korea on the anniversary of the martyrdom of the nation’s first Korean-born Catholic priest and martyr, St. Andrew Kim Taegon.

Six Black Catholics from the Diocese of Owensboro traveled to Washington, D.C. from July 20-23, 2023, to join over 3,000 Black Catholics from all over the U.S. at the National Black Catholic Congress (NBCC).

LISBON, Portugal (CNS) – After many of the 1.5 million young people gathered in Lisbon’s Tejo Park waited for hours in near 100-degree weather to participate in the World Youth Day vigil with Pope Francis Aug. 5, the pope asked them, “Have you ever been tired?”

LEXINGTON, Ky. (OSV News) – On the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, a team of dedicated Catholic men and women called the “Catholic Wildcat Missionaries” are springing into action this August to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with young adults.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Dorothy Day was “a great witness to faith, hope and charity in the 20th century,” a woman who loved the Catholic Church despite the flaws of its members and who knew that serving God meant serving the poor and working for justice, Pope Francis wrote.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — At a July 22 Unity Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory urged the fourth African National Eucharistic Congress participants to work for justice, to care for others and to protect the environment.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Gospel calls Christians to bring the elderly to the center of their lives and away from the margins of families, politics and financial markets that banish them as “unprofitable waste” in society, Pope Francis said.