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Church needs to be in crypto conversation

January 11, 2023

The recent collapse of a major cryptocurrency exchange proves the Catholic Church must “begin a conversation” on such technologies, a Catholic author and entrepreneur told OSV News.

Australian Cardinal Pell dies at 81

January 11, 2023

Australian Cardinal George Pell, former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy and archbishop of Sydney and of Melbourne, died Jan. 10 in Rome. He was 81.

New Syriac Catholic archbishop of Homs survived ISIS kidnapping

January 9, 2023

The new Syriac Catholic archbishop of Homs, Syria, had spent almost five months as a prisoner of Islamic State rebels in 2015.

Catholic leaders condemn attacks on Brazil's Congress, high court, presidential palace

January 9, 2023

The National Conference of Brazilian Bishops said in a statement it was "perplexed by the serious and violent occurrences" that erupted Jan. 8 in Brasilia, the nation's capital.

At funeral, Pope Francis remembers Benedict's 'wisdom, tenderness, devotion'

January 5, 2023

Pope Benedict XVI "spread and testified to" the Gospel his entire life, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of people gathered Jan. 5 for his predecessor's funeral Mass.

Pope Benedict lived the faith he taught, says Archbishop Gänswein

January 4, 2023

The person closest to Pope Benedict XVI for the past two and a half years said the most important thing about him was that "the faith he learned, taught and proclaimed was the faith he lived."

Mexican mission a blessing for Canadian

January 4, 2023

Mike MacDonald feels “like the most blessed Canadian in the world.” Formerly an educator in the Calgary Catholic School District, MacDonald has lived most of the past three decades in southern Mexico.

Papal biographer: Benedict 'will be canonized some day'

January 4, 2023

For Peter Seewald, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was someone "who is what he says and what he preaches." This not only mesmerized Seewald but made him fully come back to the Catholic Church. International bestsellers co-written with Pope Benedict XVI and a thick biography followed.

Tens of thousands pay last respects to Pope Benedict in St. Peter's Basilica

January 2, 2023

Tens of thousands of people streamed through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their last respects to the late Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict's body solemnly, lovingly carried to St. Peter's Basilica

January 2, 2023

The consecrated women who cared for Pope Benedict XVI in his retirement gently stroked his hands before his body was carried on a red-covered stretcher to a van for its last journey to St. Peter's Basilica.