Catholic News & Perspectives

Celebrating 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Order of Malta in Poland is inviting Polish Americans to permanently inscribe the names of their ancestors on a wall inside an iconic Kraków church to serve two purposes: memory and charity. The post A name on the wall, a gift to a child: Polish Americans invited to turn memory into mercy first appeared on OSV News.

Pope Leo XIV expressed his sadness by the devastation wrought by a glacial collapse in the Nepal-China border, causing a deadly wave of floods and mudslides that killed 168 people with hundreds more feared dead. The post Pope prays for dead, missing following catastrophic mudslides, floods in Nepal first appeared on OSV News.

The new commission is among the first diocesan initiatives in Poland and the Catholic world focused specifically on adults harmed in Church settings. The post Kraków Archdiocese to review past, current cases of possible abuse of vulnerable adults first appeared on OSV News.

St. John "wields extraordinary significance for our times" because he touches upon 'the human heart and its search for meaning," the prior said. The post Spanish Church seeks new directions from a 16th-century mystic first appeared on OSV News.