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New document on marriage offers "compassionate pastoral recommendations," says Cardinal Tobin By Catholic World News/ITV staffCardinal Joseph Tobin, 71, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, since 2017The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation — co-chaired by Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark and Metropolitan Methodios of Boston — announced on

An ecumenical gathering marked the installation of the "Chicagoland Christians United for the Care of Creation Declaration" within Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral on May 18.

At at time when antisemitism is on the rise in the US, the Catholic bishops are working to confront this prejudice with 'Nostra aetate' as their guide.

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Amid the "paralyzing nature of polarization" in society today and the "tragedy of war" around the world, "the importance of living the love of Christ in our own circumstances cannot be overemphasized," a U.S. bishop said in a message for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan. 18-25. As chairman

Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras met on the slopes of the Mount of Olives in January 1964 to forge a new path toward unity.

Joseph’s neighbor, a woman in her 80s, is helping to guard the entrance to Zichron Ya’akov, the town in Israel about 20 miles south of Haifa in which she and Joseph live.

Bishop Emeritus Howard Hubbard, who guided the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany for nearly four decades and came under fire in recent years for his handling of child sexual abuse cases, as well as abuse accusations made against him directly, died Saturday at Albany Medical Center.Hubbard, a Troy nat

The attack, conducted with legally purchased weapons, is the deadliest ever upon Jewish people in the U.S., said the Anti-Defamation League.

The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel

null / Photo by Patrick Thomas / Shutterstock Denver Newsroom, May 15, 2023 / 07:30 am (CNA). Leading Israeli rabbis and Catholic Church leaders have signed a joint declaration on the ethics of treating the terminally ill, and rejecting assiste...