(OSV News) The Los Angeles Dodgers decision to host a July 30 Christian Faith and Family Day does not allay concerns and outrage over the team s plans to honor a self-described order of drag, queer and LGBTQ+ nuns, Catholic experts told OSV News. This is not a quid pro quo, said Kathleen Domingo, executive director of the California Catholic Conference. You can t have a night where you invite one group that is openly bigoted towards another, then invite that other group. Why do you have
VATICAN CITY (CNS) The Holy Spirit invites the faithful to share in God s love and to make the church a loving home whose door is open to everyone, Pope Francis said. Our God is a communion of love: and this is how Jesus revealed him to us, the pope said before praying the Angelus with some 20,000 visitors gathered in St. Peter s Square June 4.
In his talk, Pope Francis reflected on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit celebrated that day.
He said this G
OSV News) A Catholic parish priest accused of offending state authorities in Belarus said he understood the hardships facing prisoners of conscience after just four days in jail. I wouldn t wish this on anyone not a single hour in such a place, said Father Andrej Kulik, rector of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish at Miory. Many of my colleagues have sat in prison for various concocted reasons in recent decades, not just here in Belarus, and it made no difference that I
LVIV, Ukraine (OSV News) Leading forensic experts at the British University of Exeter are collecting evidence and testimonies of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In the course of their work, they met with Ukrainian religious scholars on May 25 to better prepare for future investigations in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands.
It s the ICC, commonly known as The Hague, that investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of con