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(OSV News) -- Hitting 1 million followers on Instagram is an achievement often celebrated in creative ways by social media influencers, but when Father...
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(OSV News) -- A Catholic church in Kansas has been targeted in what that state's bishops are calling a "hate crime." St. Patrick Church in Wichita announced...
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(OSV News) -- Long before Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal judge in Washington on March 18 blocked the Trump administration from banning people who identify as transgender from...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., urged the Trump administration to issue...
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(OSV News) -- Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has filed a motion for the return of the Eucharist, a consecrated host and consecrated...
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(OSV News) -- A midwife has been arrested and charged after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged she performed abortions illegal under that state's...
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Season 5 of the hit series "The Chosen" is set to be released in theaters on March 28. "The Chosen: Last Supper" focuses on the events of Holy Week --...
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(OSV News) -- Following a setback, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is continuing its legal fight against the Trump administration's halt in federal...
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(OSV News) -- It was one solid social victory amid the communal disintegration of the COVID-19 pandemic: With the congressional passage of the 2021 American...
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(OSV News) -- St. John Paul II's example as a strong bridge-builder between Catholicism and Judaism should be used against enduring antisemitism, especially...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Department of Education said March 11 it planned to cut about 50% of its workforce. Such cuts could also impact Catholic...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pro-life groups praised the Trump administration's recent move to drop a Biden administration lawsuit against an Idaho law over...
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(OSV News) -- Cardinal Robert McElroy was installed March 11 as the eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, during a nearly two-hour liturgy...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court said March 10 that it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law banning professional counseling...
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(OSV News) -- Amid the Trump administration's sweeping cuts to overseas humanitarian aid, an annual collection used to serve the vulnerable in the U.S....
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said March 10 that just 18% of programs of the now-shuttered U.S. Agency for International...
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(OSV News) -- In February, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order pledging his administration's support for in vitro fertilization, the...
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OWENSBORO, Ky. (OSV News) -- As the new spiritual director for a national Catholic adoption and foster support ministry, Father Christopher Kight sees...
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(OSV News) -- As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists against the death...
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(OSV News) -- The faithful are invited to pray for those whose lives are touched by adoption, seeking the intercession of St. Joseph, the foster father...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Francis, now hospitalized with severe respiratory issues, has been "broadly popular among the nation's Catholics throughout his tenure,"...
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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- Maria-Consuelo didn't lose her home in the wildfires that burned parts of Los Angeles County in early January, but her employers...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Catholic immigration advocates sought ways to respond to some anti-immigration or false narratives about their work during a conference...
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CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (OSV News) -- Joshua (Josh) and Laura Marszalek rejoiced in February 2011 at the birth of their second child, a daughter. They named...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump touted the "swift and unrelenting action" taken by his second administration in its first six weeks, telling...
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(OSV News) -- Eight "perpetual pilgrims" are planning to journey from Indianapolis to Los Angeles May 18 to June 22 in the second National Eucharistic...
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(OSV News) -- A Connecticut priest has been placed on administrative leave for allegedly misappropriating parish funds for personal use, with the priest...
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(OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Indianapolis said an investigation of an alleged Eucharistic miracle is underway at a southeast Indiana church where it...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As worshippers entered the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington for the noon Mass March...
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(OSV News) -- "Unity rooted in truth has the power to stop evil," said Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of...
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(OSV News) -- Iowa has enacted a law defining "sex" as male or female, with "gender" as a synonym, while removing gender identity protections from its...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops urged Catholics to answer Pope Francis' call for prayer for the people of Ukraine in their Lenten reflection...
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(OSV News) -- The Trump administration "immediately terminated" its contract with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for refugee resettlement, effective...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) -- The annual New York Encounter opened on Valentine's Day evening with a love letter to Notre Dame Cathedral, presented by its restoration...
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(OSV News) -- A Kansas military chaplain who served during two wars is a step further along the path to possible sainthood, thanks to a declaration made...
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(OSV News) -- Catholic bishops, clergy and religious across the nation continue to weigh in on the Trump administration's sweeping changes to U.S. immigration...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal judge in Maryland has halted a Trump administration policy rescinding long-standing restrictions on Immigration and...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- When Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory became the first African American cardinal in the history of the Catholic Church Nov....
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- House Republicans Feb. 25 narrowly passed a budget resolution calling for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction...
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(OSV News) -- A multiyear decline in Christianity in the U.S. may have leveled off, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center. However, the Catholic...
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(OSV News) -- The introduction of physician-assisted suicide bills in both houses of the Illinois Legislature during this legislative session has opponents...
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TORONTO (OSV News) -- Father John Mullins wasn't at his normal posting at Toronto's Pearson International Airport when his phone delivered the breaking...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops' Feb. 18 lawsuit against the federal government for abrupt and sweeping changes to refugee resettlement funding, and the...
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(OSV News) -- As Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops are affirming Ukrainians' belief...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Feb. 19 it has started to send out guidance on "clear sex-based definitions" to...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In sharing the U.S. bishops' Lenten message this year, their pro-life chairman used it "to speak to all who carry the unbearable...
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