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3 weeks ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Maria Wiering |Lily Nguyen
(OSV News) — Backcountry camping, white water rafting and rock climbing are key draws for campers at Camp Wojtyla, a Catholic camp in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Named for Karol Wojtyla — better known to the world as St. John Paul II — the camp experience is immersion in both adventure and the Catholic faith for middle and high schoolers. “We don’t rock climb during the day and then talk about Jesus at night. We do catechesis through rock climbing.
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4 weeks ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Cindy Wooden |Lily Nguyen
ROME (CNS) — The Jesuits have written to 20 women who have accused Father Marko Rupnik of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse, offering to work with them to find a path of reparation “geared toward healing the wounds” caused by the former Jesuit priest. Jesuit Father Johan Verschueren, the order’s delegate for Interprovincial Roman Houses and Works, and Father Rupnik’s immediate superior before he was expelled from the order, confirmed the news in an email to Catholic News Service March 26.
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1 month ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Junno Arocho Esteves |Lily Nguyen
(OSV News) — A Catholic pastoral center in northern Myanmar is among the latest Christian sites bombed by the country’s governing military junta. According to a March 5 report by Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization, the pastoral center, which was on the grounds of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Nan Hlaing, located in the northern Diocese of Banmaw, was targeted and destroyed by two aerial bombs.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Gina Christian |Lily Nguyen
(OSV News) — Catholic bishops throughout the U.S. are calling on faithful to pray for Pope Francis, now in critical condition in Rome’s Gemelli hospital amid a week-long battle with respiratory illness. In a Feb.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Cindy Wooden |Lily Nguyen
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The morning after the Vatican confirmed Pope Francis has double pneumonia, the director of the Vatican press office said the pope had a restful night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, told reporters early Feb. 19 that the pope slept peacefully, woke up and had breakfast. A CT scan Feb. 18 “demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia, which required additional drug therapy,” according to the previous evening’s medical bulletin.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Gina Christian |Kate Scanlon |Lily Nguyen
(OSV News) — U.S. Catholic bishops — joined by Pope Francis — are calling for prayer after a deadly aviation crash in the nation’s capital claimed dozens of lives. “Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Washington today join men and women of good will here and around the world in praying for those who perished in last night’s heartbreaking accident,” Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the retired archbishop and current apostolic administrator of the archdiocese, said in a Jan. 30 statement. The Jan.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | Kate Scanlon |Lily Nguyen
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — In a move welcomed by the US bishops’ chair on family life, President Donald Trump Jan. 28 signed an executive order stating his administration would seek to prohibit certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
catholicvirginian.org | Kate Scanlon |Lily Nguyen
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — After congressional lawmakers formally certified President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, Trump is scheduled to return to the White House Jan. 20, four years after he left the Oval Office in the wake of a failed reelection bid. The upcoming ceremony — which is also expected to include an opening prayer from Cardinal Timothy M.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
catholicvirginian.org | Dale Gavlak |Lily Nguyen
BETHANY BEYOND THE JORDAN, Jordan (OSV News) — Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, told thousands of faithful that Pope Francis sent him to preside over the inauguration and consecration of a new Catholic church at the banks of the Jordan River as a sign of the universal church’s closeness to all Christians in the Middle East. It is officially recognized by the church as the site where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
catholicvirginian.org | Kate Scanlon |Lily Nguyen
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation’s highest civilian honor, the White House said Jan. 11. Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, spoke with the pontiff to name him a recipient of the award, the White House said. It marked the only time in his presidency Biden bestowed that award “with distinction,” the announcement added. On Jan. 8 Biden canceled a trip to Italy that had been scheduled for Jan. 9-12.
