News & Commentary
Diplomat recalls friendship with cardinal who’s up for sainthood
OSV News
May 16, 2020
Around 1950, in Zanesville, Ohio, a young Patrick Flood's Catholic grade school class watched a movie about persecuted Christians in the newly Communist countries of Eastern Europe. One, he remembers, was Cardinal Mindszenty, then the bishop of Esztergom, Hungary, and ...
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Fauci to graduates: ‘We will get through this’
OSV News
May 16, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is used to addressing the country about steps to contain the coronavirus, but in mid-May he spoke directly to graduates of the nation's 60 Jesuit high schools ...
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Pope: If you can’t go to confession, take your sorrow directly to God
OSV News
May 16, 2020
People who cannot get to confession because of the coronavirus lockdown or another serious reason can go to God directly, be specific about their sins, request pardon and experience God’s loving forgiveness, Pope Francis said.
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Time: Lockdown’s Unexpected Gift
OSV News
May 16, 2020
I was video chatting with my childhood friend yesterday. We haven’t talked in almost a year and we were organizing a virtual happy hour with our high school friends. Why hadn’t we thought about doing this before?
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Pope to nurses, midwives: ‘Thank you for your service’
OSV News
May 16, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn well-deserved attention to nurses and midwives, who are among "the saints next door," dedicated to helping people in some of the most joyful or painful moments of their lives, Pope Francis said.
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Soviet prisoners of conscience petitioned John Paul II for help
OSV News
May 16, 2020
Soviet political prisoners from various backgrounds begged St. John Paul II's help in secret messages after his 1978 election, according to a former inmate in recollections published for the late pope's hundredth birthday.
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The story of the LA miracle that will make Pier Giorgio Frassati a saint