An actor portrays Jesus Christ in a Passion play in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023. The play, to be performed again on Palm Sunday 2025, brings new life to one of the first mass murders of World War II that took place in Bydgoszcz's Fordon neighborhood. (OSV News photo/courtesy organizers)
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Organizers of the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimageannounced April 10 that public events are posted and registration is open for stops along the Drexel Route.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishopssaid it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships with the federal government in those areas became “untenable.”
Amid ongoing abuse allegations, the art center founded by Father Marko Rupnik, accused of sexual, spiritual, and psychological abuse over three decades, continues to promote his artwork.
Pope Francis, who is continuing to recover from pneumonia and a long hospitalization, blesses a baby as he makes a surprise visit to St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, April 10, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a handout video. (OSV News photo/Luiz Gil, Handout via Reuters)
Pope Francis’ surprise April 10 visit to St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and see ongoing restoration work is a clear sign that his condition is improving, the Vatican press office said. Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla also met privately with the pope April 9.
Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote and President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, defended the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid at a Senate hearing April 8 on his nomination to the position.
An actor portrays Jesus Christ in a Passion play in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023. The play, to be performed again on Palm Sunday 2025, brings new life to one of the first mass murders of World War II that took place in Bydgoszcz’s Fordon neighborhood. (OSV News photo/courtesy organizers)
In Bydgoszcz, Poland, a powerful Passion play is bringing new life to one of World War II’s darkest chapters. Held for the 24th year in the Fordon neighborhood’s “Valley of Death” — the site where over 1,000 Polish elites were executed by Nazi Germans in 1939 — the event combines Scripture, history, and local memory.
The Supreme Court on April 7 issued a ruling allowing the Trump administration to continue to deport migrants accused of being in a Venezuelan gang using a wartime powers law for now, overturning a lower court that had paused such deportations.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, and named Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, as his successor. The same week, the pope also appointed the tenth bishop of the Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church in the Forest Hills section of the Queens borough of New York. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Pope Francis’ 2024 encyclical “Dilexit Nos” (“He loved us”) calls the church back to the heart — literally. In an April 9 webinar organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, emphasized that the document centers on Christ’s heart, urging Catholics to rediscover tenderness and whole-person integrity in a scattered, distracted world.
As millions of pilgrims plan to visit Rome for the Jubilee Year, Catholics in France and Spain will also have special reasons to stay home as they honor two of the church’s most beloved saints: St. Thérèse of Lisieux and St. Teresa of Ávila.
