Catholics join in Chicago international commemoration of Ireland's Great Famine
CHICAGO (OSV News) -- On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million...
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Trump places Nigeria on religious freedom watch list, threatens military action
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump said Oct. 31 he would place Nigeria on a religious freedom watch list in response to violence in that country...
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ICE bars Chicago bishop from giving detained Catholics holy Communion on All Saints
CHICAGO (OSV News) -- A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second time in...
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'Nostra Aetate' continues to 'set a new course' for Catholic Church's relations with Jewish people, says rabbi
(OSV News) -- Hours after the Vatican's commemorations of the 60th anniversary of "Nostra Aetate" ("In Our Time") -- the Second Vatican Council's decree...
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Panel: The church, under Pope Leo, can help the world tackle its biggest problems
(OSV News) -- They are a trio of challenges and opportunities already stalking the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV: The persistence of poverty, the changing...
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Jurist recalls Scalia's praise for St. Thomas More's view of world through 'eyes of faith'
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (OSV News) -- At the annual Red Mass for the St. Thomas More Society of South Florida, Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz of the Florida...
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Richmond's Catholic Fest celebrates Jubilee, makes faithful feel like 'such a community'
RICHMOND, Va. (OSV News) -- The weather held off, the bands played on, and the turnstiles clicked at The Diamond baseball stadium in Richmond as more than...
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USCCB president raises alarm about disruption of federal food assistance
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The president of the U.S. bishops' conference has urged lawmakers to fund federal food assistance before a looming deadline risks...
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'Nostra Aetate', a document that revolutionized Catholic-Jewish relations, turns 60
(OSV News) -- A landmark Catholic document, credited with igniting a revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations over the decades, has turned 60. "Nostra...
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Federal judge strikes Biden-era rule including gender identity in sex discrimination prohibition
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal judge recently struck down a rule issued by former President Joe Biden's administration that sought to include gender...
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Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota at Wounded Knee
(OSV News) -- A South Dakota bishop and a Jesuit community in that state have countered a recent decision by the nation's top defense official to retain...
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Annunciation student critically injured in shooting discharged from hospital, met with cheers
MINNEAPOLIS (OSV News) -- Sophia Forchas, who was critically injured in an Aug. 27 shooting during an all-school Mass at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis,...
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Sheen Experience breaks ground in Peoria, honoring America's media evangelist
PEORIA, Ill. (OSV News) -- As a teenager, Venerable Fulton J. Sheen walked the halls of Spalding Institute, then a Catholic high school, located about...
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Father Mike Schmitz invites listeners to enter 'The Imitation of Christ' with new podcast
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A centuries-old devotional book, said to be the second most circulated in the history of Christianity after the Bible, is, perhaps...
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'Hello! I'm a Catholic Priest!' How one coffee shop ministry attracts student seekers
(OSV News) -- "Hello! I'm a Catholic Priest!" greets the cheerful, large-font sign taped to the back of the laptop computer of Father Richard Miserendino,...
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Military archdiocese calls Army pledge to 'reexamine' religious support contracts 'inadequate'
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Army said religious support contracts for Army chapels would be "reexamined" after Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head...
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Pew: More US adults see religion as important, positive to public life
(OSV News) -- A new study indicates a growing number of U.S. adults see religion as gaining influence in public life -- with more Americans saying religion...
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Archbishop Broglio: Army's cancellation of religious support contracts harms Catholics
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said Oct. 17 the U.S. Army has cancelled all religious...
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Trump rolls out policy proposal to boost IVF, a procedure US bishops 'strongly reject'
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump announced a policy proposal Oct. 16 to increase access to in vitro fertilization, including issuing guidance...
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Trump rolls out policy proposal to increase access to in vitro fertilization
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump announced Oct. 16 a policy proposal to increase access to in vitro fertilization, including issuing guidance...
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Catholic ministries that inter abandoned cremated remains are about 'honoring the dead'
NEW ORLEANS (OSV News) -- A funeral urn filled with ashes was found abandoned in 2022 on a park bench in Tennessee, more than 1,000 miles east of Minneapolis. As...
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Georgetown University names Eduardo Peñalver as next president
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Georgetown University's board of directors unanimously voted to name Eduardo M. Peñalver, president of Seattle University,...
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Bishops, state agree to protect confession in Washington mandatory reporter law
(OSV News) -- Washington state's government and its Catholic bishops reached an agreement Oct. 10 in a federal lawsuit over the state's mandatory...
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New study shows priests largely satisfied, but trust in bishops still low, and burnout looms
(OSV News) -- A new study on U.S. priests shows that many report satisfaction with their ministry, but trust in bishops and major superiors is still low,...
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At annual conference, migration advocates consider policy challenges for their cause
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Panelists and advocates for migration at the 22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference Oct. 9 examined challenges the...
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Fear at Chicago church puts in focus U.S. bishops’ effort to protect migrants’ right to worship
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Amid growing concern about the impact of the Trump administration’s rollback of a policy that prohibited immigration...
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Seminaries report seeing fruits of discipleship, discernment in 'propadeutic year'
(OSV News) -- Seminary formation was already notoriously long -- at least six years -- and recently, an additional year has been added: the propadeutic...
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ICE enforcement impacts immigrant priests, seminarians and religious in the US
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Immigrant priests, seminarians and religious in the U.S. are among those impacted by immigration enforcement policy, advocates...
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Vatican II vision for Christian education still inspires Catholic school renewal at 60
(OSV News) -- It's among the shortest and perhaps least controversial of the Second Vatican Council's 16 documents -- four constitutions, nine decrees,...
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As US household debt hits all-time high, can the church help members in financial stress?
(OSV News) -- "Debt," said the 17th-century English scholar, author and preacher Thomas Fuller, "is the worst poverty." The 90% of Americans who -- as...
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Bishops call for solidarity with immigrants in binational pilgrimage and Mass
SAN LUIS, Ariz. (OSV News) -- As the sun set over the international border a small cadre of Catholic bishops processed toward Mexico. Flanked by priests,...
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10 US bishops stand for election as the conference's next president, vice president
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- When the U.S. bishops gather for their fall plenary assembly Nov. 10-13 in Baltimore, they will elect the next president and vice...
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Sister Jean, beloved Loyola icon and chaplain of men's basketball team, dies at 106
(OSV News) -- She prayed with college basketball players before games, counseled them after losses, and reminded them that faith, not fame, was the real...
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Justices hear faith-driven free speech challenge to Colorado conversion therapy ban
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Oct. 7 in Chiles v. Salazar, a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law banning professional...
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Analysis: US strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats raise just war concerns
(OSV News) -- Onscreen, the small and visibly speedy boat plows its way through the waves, while a glowing green title at the top of the frame reads "unclassified." Seconds...
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'Dilexi Te' defined by charity, continuity and unity
(OSV News) -- Five months into his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has promulgated his first official document, making as his own the draft of a text unfinished...
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Pope Leo tells migration advocates church must not be 'silent' on the issue
WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with the immigrant community in the U.S. and urged the church to be a united voice on their...
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