Jersey Catholic

Q: I recently read your answer to the question, “Is non-alcoholic church wine valid for consecration?” In your response you cited the canon law that discusses the “valid matter” for… The post Why can’t the church offer a completely gluten-free host? first appeared on OSV News.

Catholic bishops in the U.S. are calling on faithful to pray for Pope Francis, now in critical condition in Rome's Gemelli hospital with a respiratory illness. The post Bishops call for prayers as Pope Francis’ condition worsens first appeared on OSV News.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis experienced “an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged magnitude, which also required the use of oxygen at high flows” Feb. 22, said the daily medical… The post Pope has respiratory ‘crisis,’ doctors say ‘prognosis reserved’ first appeared on OSV News.

ROME (CNS) — Briefing reporters on Pope Francis’ medical condition, two of his doctors also gave them glimpses of a patient who is physically fragile, but mentally alert, joking with… The post Pope’s doctors say their patient is fragile but is not giving up first appeared on OSV News.

NEWARK, N.J. (OSV News) — Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the first African American cardinal, said Black History Month is always an opportunity to recognize the “pioneers” of Black heritage for… The post Gregory: Black History Month is call to look forward ‘with hopeful hearts, open minds’ first appeared on OSV News.