Gina Christian

Diocesan bishops and vocations directors are largely satisfied with their seminaries' formation programs — but some gaps remain between clergy and mental health professionals as to the role of ongoing psychological services in assessing candidates' readiness for ordination, according to a new report.

On Sept. 22, Archbishop Paul Gallagher delivered an address at the United Nations' New York headquarters during the U.N.'s high-level meeting marking the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.

As artificial intelligence evolves at lightning speed, the University of Notre Dame has convened a summit to bring Catholic and Christian values to bear on AI technology.

A recent immigration enforcement raid involving Korean workers in Georgia has rattled the Savannah area's Korean Catholics, according to one spokesman for the community.

 The sisters said they had been sent to a care home against their will, and on Sept. 4 — with the help of a former student and a local locksmith — they returned to their quarters at the monastery.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Sept. 10 that its Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism — established in 2017 under then-USCCB president, and now retired, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo Galveston-Houston, Texas — has been made a permanent USCCB body.

Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, issued a Sept. 6 message in both English and Spanish to faithful, saying he was "devastated" and "heartbroken" by allegations against Fr. Andrew Showers, who is now completely restricted from all public ministry and barred from having contact with minors as a police investigation continues.

Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See's U.N. permanent observer, shared his thoughts in a statement he delivered Sept. 4 at U.N. headquarters in New York, during the General Assembly High-level Plenary Meeting to Commemorate and Promote the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, observed that same day.

A Wisconsin priest who headed up his diocese's Office of Worship has been arrested for allegedly seeking to meet up for sex with someone whom he believed was an underage teen girl.

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina marks a call to "renew our commitment to racial equity and justice in every sector of public life," said two U.S. Catholic bishops.

A security expert told OSV News that parishes and churches can take several key steps to reduce the threat of attacks such as the deadly Aug. 27 shooting during a school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.

Before the attack, Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa said prayer is not "a magic formula that solves problems," but rather a means of transforming hearts to reject violence and hatred, and embrace fraternity, mutual respect and goodness.

An active shooter at Villanova University reported late afternoon Aug. 21 was a "cruel hoax," a university official said less than two hours after the initial scare that led to a campus lockdown.

As the Trump administration seeks to end Russia's multiyear war on Ukraine, Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians continue, said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia said, "the truth is that we are in the Lord's hands and His truth will prevail."

A Canadian court has ruled a Canadian diocesan priest can continue his civil suit against fellow Basilian Fr. Thomas Rosica and the Basilian Fathers of Toronto, with the plaintiff, Fr. Michael Bechard, seeking damages for alleged sexual abuse by Rosica.

The pontiff is viewed more favorably across party lines, although "consistent with the ideological differences in his ratings, he is liked better by Democrats than Republicans."

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Catholic Church must renew its commitment to nonviolence, disarmament and lasting peace, said U.S. prelates attending commemoration events in Japan.

Ahead of his third "Pilgrimage of Peace" to Japan to mark the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, Archbishop John Wester spoke with OSV News about the current state of nuclear risk, and efforts to disarm the world of nuclear weapons.

Bishop Mark E. Brennan urged people of his state to "affirm the humanity of all immigrants." He also called on every person to "pray for the courage to do the right thing," including those tasked with carrying out the nation's laws.