U.S. & World News

This Lent, Jonathan Roumie has a full plate at work -- and an empty one at home, he told OSV News, thanks to some "heavy fasting" he plans to undertake between now and Easter.

Healing the wounds of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine requires decades of effort -- and a willingness to face human suffering at a staggering scale, said experts at a Feb. 23 panel discussion hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago.

Prosecutors are challenging the medical report claiming former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial on charges he sexually abused a teen in the 1970s.

The legislative effort to delay broadening Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) eligibility to individuals solely afflicted with a mental illness by a year is forging ahead, but there are signs Canadians are not comfortable with moving forward.

Anglican leaders in the Global South say the decision by the Church of England to allow clergy to bless same-sex unions has strengthened their resolve to reset, reform and renew the worldwide Communion.

In 1891, the same year Pope Leo XIII responded to revolutionary economic and industrial upheaval with the encyclical "Rerum Novarum" -- the first car powered by electricity made its debut in America.

Tom Lyman, director of Family Rosary, hopes that especially during Lent -- which calls Catholics to commit more time to the Lord in prayer -- families will pray the rosary together and take part in the ministry's "At the Foot of the Cross" Lenten campaign.

The recently formed Institute on the Catechism will carry out the U.S. bishops' vision of the importance of "connecting evangelization and catechesis," according to Father Daniel J. Mahan, an Indianapolis archdiocesan priest just named as the institute's director.