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Pope Leo draws 800,000 to Mass in the heart of Paris
PARIS (OSV News) -- Close to 800,000 people lined Paris' Champs Elysees from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde for Mass Sept. 26 with Pope Leo XIV, who urged the people of France to follow Jesus to the source of true happiness and peace.
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CatholicTV expands digital reach with new website, streaming apps
BRAINTREE -- When Cardinal Richard Cushing founded The CatholicTV Network in Watertown in 1955, his interest wasn't in the then-new technology. "He was thinking about the person who couldn't get to church, the sick, the homebound, the one who had drifted away and might wander back through a television screen," said CatholicTV President Bishop Robert Reed. "That has never changed, and it won't."
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Pastoral Center gathering marks World Day of Migrants
BRAINTREE -- The Archdiocese of Boston is in possession of what is quite possibly the largest collection of sacramental records in the U.S. Tucked away in the archdiocese's Pastoral Center in Braintree are records of 6.5 million baptisms, marriages, First Communions, confirmations, and funerals. To Violet Hurst, director of the Archdiocese of Boston's Archive and Library, every record tells a story. Many of those stories are of immigrants. They brought their Catholic faith to an unfamiliar land, establishing parishes, schools, beneficial societies, and feasts celebrated to this day.
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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen declared 'Blessed' at beatification Mass in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (OSV News) -- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen -- the 20th-century theologian, evangelizer, Catholic communications pioneer, teacher and preacher -- is now Blessed Fulton J. Sheen. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, a pro-prefect for the Holy See's Dicastery for Evangelization and papal delegate, pronounced the Church's declaration on Archbishop Sheen's holiness of life and witness to Jesus Christ at a Sept. 24 Mass celebrated in The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis.
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Mass. Bishops back petition to suspend late-term abortion law
BRAINTREE -- Massachusetts' four Catholic bishops are urging the faithful to oppose a newly signed law expanding late-term abortion access, calling it a "tragedy" that puts pregnant women and unborn children at risk and asking Catholics to support an effort to suspend it.
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Lawn Party supports mission of Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary
WESTON -- The men of Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston had many occupations before being called to the priesthood later in life. Among their ranks are doctors, accountants, engineers, plumbers, mechanics, and public servants. One was even a New York City taxi driver.
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