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(OSV News) -- Catholic immigration advocates are speaking out after an internal federal document obtained by CBS News showed most individuals arrested...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV prayed with the sick at the Lourdes grotto in the Vatican Gardens on Feb. 11, asking Our Lady of Lourdes to accompany all those...
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(OSV News) -- An Indiana bishop is urging the University of Notre Dame to halt the appointment of a faculty member, who advocates openly for abortion,...
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PEORIA, Ill. (OSV News) -- Catholics in the U.S. are sharing their gratitude for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen following the announcement Feb. 9 that the Vatican...
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(OSV News) -- Venerable Fulton J. Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. Once dubbed "God's...
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(OSV News) -- Venerable Fulton J. Sheen will soon be beatified, now that the Vatican has given the green light, the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, announced...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (OSV News) -- New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul Feb. 6 made good on her promise that early this year she would sign a bill into law allowing...
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attaining the common good "belongs to both individuals and the state," he said. The latter "must guarantee the cohesion, unity and organization of society,"...
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(OSV News) -- Servant of God Thea Bowman's canonization cause is moving ahead, with a Mass and ceremony marking the closure of the cause's diocesan phase...
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(OSV News) -- A change is coming in 2026 for the pope's top man in America. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, turns 80...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) -- A federal judge blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S. on Feb. 2, dealing...
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RICHMOND, Va. (OSV News) -- The Virginia General Assembly has sent a sweeping amendment enshrining a "fundamental right" to abortion in the Constitution...
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In a recent article from November 2025, a group that favors immigration restrictions said: "Politicians, business leaders and activist groups have long...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal appeals court ruled late Jan. 28 that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended legal protections for hundreds...
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HOUSTON (OSV News) -- A Houston-area Catholic school science teacher said the Challenger disaster remains one of the most defining moments of her early...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) -- Urging federal, state and local elected officials in Minnesota to chart an "off-ramp from this crisis" of increased federal...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- While continuing to work to change laws to protect the unborn and support pregnant women in need, "we need to redouble our efforts...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As thousands gathered in the cold, to stand for the unborn, March for Life president Jennie Bradley Lichter reminded the crowd...
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(OSV News) -- En medio de las tensiones nacionales y mundiales de hoy, el presidente de la Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de Estados Unidos ha convocado...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A key national pro-life group has accused the U.S. Department of Justice of undermining Louisiana's efforts to roll back the Biden...
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(OSV News) -- Britta Curl-Salemme's love for skating and ice hockey began very early in her life. She remembers skating with her three siblings since "basically...
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(OSV News) -- Father Mike Schmitz is sharing five takeaways, things he's learned, from hosting the wildly popular "The Bible in a Year" podcast released...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- After a second fatal shooting in January involving federal agents in Minneapolis during an increase in federal immigration enforcement,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Tens of thousands of pro-life advocates descended on the March for Life demonstrating their strong motivation to give witness...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- While continuing to work to change laws to protect the unborn and support pregnant women in need, "we need to redouble our efforts...
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(OSV News) -- On the eve of the 2026 March for Life in Washington, Pope Leo XIV issued a message to participants, expressing his deep gratitude for...
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MEDIA, Pa. (OSV News) -- Six pro-life activists, most of them Catholics, arrested last year for disrupting the activities of an abortion clinic in Pennsylvania...
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ALBANY, N.Y. (OSV News) -- In a sudden development in a case that has lingered in the courts for nearly a decade, the state of New York has given up on...
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(OSV News) -- On Jan. 19, quarterback Fernando Mendoza soaked in the glory of leading Indiana University to its first national championship, but he directed...
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(OSV News) -- Police have confirmed to OSV News that two students at a Catholic university in Ohio found dead in their car succumbed to carbon monoxide...
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(OSV News) -- "Ban" sounds like a harsh word -- a draconian measure taken in the direst of circumstances, certain to meet with resistance. So just imagine...
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(OSV News) -- Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis -- whose territory has become a flashpoint in the nation's immigration policy debate...
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NOTRE DAME, Ind. (OSV News) -- As President Donald Trump boosts his rhetoric on the United States acquiring Greenland, whether by sale or force, ahead...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The head of the U.S. military archdiocese said in a Jan. 18 radio interview that U.S. soldiers could in good conscience disobey...
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(OSV News) -- Three U.S. cardinals have issued a joint statement urging the creation of a "genuinely moral foreign policy for our nation," as the U.S....
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(OSV News) -- Approval, public consensus and visibility are often given undue importance in modern society, shaping how people think, behave and even understand...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Vice President JD Vance is expected to address the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 23, organizers of the event said...
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(OSV News) -- The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is back for 2026 with a special route that will travel the East Coast from St. Augustine, Florida, to...
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(OSV News) -- The National Eucharistic Revival -- a three-year initiative to renew belief in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, following...
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(OSV News) -- More than 388 million Christians -- or 1 in 7 believers worldwide -- face "high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith,"...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Jan. 14 that the first in a series of direct humanitarian shipments to Cuba "in...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A Senate committee held a hearing on the abortion pill Jan. 14 as the Trump administration faces scrutiny from some pro-lifers...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops are calling the faithful to donate to the annual collection for the Church in Latin America, to help support ministries...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Department of Homeland Security said Jan. 14 it issued an interim final rule reducing wait times for religious worker visas....
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., a longtime champion of religious liberty, particularly in Tibet, proudly wears a bracelet of brown...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Trump administration "quietly released" Title X family planning funds to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion...
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MINNEAPOLIS (OSV News) -- On the stage of Annunciation Catholic School's auditorium in Minneapolis, Jesse and Mollie Merkel walked to the podium to express...
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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- It was a picture-perfect December afternoon in Pacific Palisades, and the sounds of a neighborhood coming back to life were in...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Marking the Jan. 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. bishops' conference,...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) -- Acknowledging what he described as "a heaviness in our community these days," Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and...
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(OSV News) -- Geoffrey Hinton -- the computer scientist and cognitive psychologist known as the "godfather of AI" -- recently issued a warning concerning...
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(OSV News) -- The 2026 national March for Life promises to bring tens of thousands of pro-life Americans to the nation's capital to celebrate the beauty...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 heard oral arguments in two cases concerning state laws requiring student athletes to compete...
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(OSV News) -- As the nation's Catholics are set to remember unborn children in prayer, a U.S. bishop is stressing that amid several positive developments...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump met with Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (OSV News) -- Years from now a question likely to still circulate among the Venezuelan diaspora in Florida will be: Where were you...
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