Dec 9, 2025 | Last week in the sun, US & World
By Caroline de Sury OSV News PARIS (OSV News) — Notre Dame de Paris celebrated the first anniversary of its reopening Dec. 7 with a major milestone: more than 11 million people have visited the iconic cathedral in the past 12 months. The cathedral had been...
Nov 19, 2025 | US & World
By Sarah Mac Donald OSV News DUBLIN (OSV News) — The Catholics of Dublin have a dedicated cathedral for the first time in 500 years following Pope Leo XIV’s decision on Nov. 14 to designate St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the Irish capital’s...
Oct 23, 2025 | US & World
Above: Pope Leo XIV greets people at an audience in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2025, as part of a conference on the life and work of Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, who lived 1865-1930. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) By Catholic News Service VATICAN...
Sep 23, 2025 | US & World
By Marietha Góngora V. OSV News (OSV News) — At the start of National Migration Week, taking place this year Sept. 22-28, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration invited the faithful to join “The Cabrini...
Jul 31, 2025 | US & World
By Fredrick Nzwili OSV News (OSV News) — Hundreds of Catholics in Congo gave thanks for the recent Rome beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a customs official who was killed and tortured for refusing a bribe. On July 8, the remains of the young...
Jun 17, 2025 | US & World
ABOVE: Then-U.S. President George H.W Bush gestures after then-Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro presented Bush with a disarmed Soviet made AK-47 in New York City Sept. 29, 1990. Chamorro, who led a coalition of 14 political parties to power in the 1990...
Apr 8, 2025 | US & World
By Kate Scanlon , OSV News WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said it would not renew its cooperative agreements with the federal government related to children’s services and refugee support after its longstanding partnerships...
Mar 31, 2025 | US & World
By Justin McLellan , Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonizations of three blesseds: an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the Armenian genocide, a lay catechist from Papua New Guinea killed during...
Mar 27, 2025 | US & World
By Carol Glatz , Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2023, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms all declined, according to Vatican...
Jan 30, 2025 | US & World
By OSV News LOS ANGELES (OSV News) — At last year’s OneLife LA event, it rained so much that attendees were thoroughly soaked. At this year’s event, participants prayed for even a few drops to fall — anything to help combat the still-burning wildfires that...
Jan 28, 2025 | US & World
By Justin McLellan , Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The use of artificial intelligence in schools must not threaten “the indispensable relationship between teacher and student” that lies at the heart of education, the Vatican said....
Jan 15, 2025 | Local, Uncategorized, US & World
Statement on Gov. Hochul’s abortion expansion agenda (January 15, 2025) Following is a statement by Kristen Curran, director of government relations for the New York State Catholic Conference, on Governor Hochul’s abortion expansion agenda: As part of her 2025 State...
Dec 19, 2024 | US & World
By OSV News PARIS (OSV News) — Chilling rain and the “City of Lights” completely locked down due to high-profile guests did not stop the crowds from arriving as close to Notre Dame Cathedral as possible for its inaugural Mass celebrated Dec. 8. The beloved Paris icon...
Dec 6, 2024 | US & World
By Caroline de Sury , OSV News PARIS (OSV News) — As the whole world awaits the reopening of Notre Dame, for those present inside the cathedral for the “grand réouverture,” it will be even more of a special moment. Gen. Arnaud de Cacqueray is...
Sep 25, 2024 | US & World
By Michael Gresham, OSV News IRVING, Texas (OSV News) — A smile never left her face as Karen Bless dressed in a long, white gown processed into the Church of Incarnation to stand before the altar. It was her day, after all. The day Bless became a “bride of...
Sep 13, 2024 | US & World
By Caroline de Sury , OSV News PARIS (OSV News) — The excitement is mounting in Paris ahead of the Dec. 8 reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral with only a few cranes remaining on the outside of the iconic French church. As scaffolding has largely been removed from...
Aug 19, 2024 | US & World
By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News (OSV News) — As the world commemorates World Humanitarian Day 2024, the latest figures on the dire circumstances aid workers face on the frontline highlight the alarming increase in attacks against them and their work to relieve...
Jun 18, 2024 | US & World
By Colleen Rowan , OSV News (OSV News) — Its mission is to lead young people to a deep relationship with Jesus Christ through his church. And the Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp does just that each summer for young Catholics in West Virginia. Set deep in the...
May 28, 2024 | US & World
By Carol Glatz , OSV News VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Always pray, and pray especially for an end to all wars, Pope Francis told children during Mass concluding the first World Children’s Day. “We are here to pray, to pray together and to pray to...
May 8, 2024 | US & World
By Maria Wiering , OSV News (OSV News) — Major cities and country parishes alike are preparing for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Marian Route to make its way over the course of eight weeks through the Midwest, from northern Minnesota through...
Apr 25, 2024 | US & World
By Anna Wilgenbusch , OSV News (OSV News) — Those who attend silent retreats say that silence and solitude is an essential, although often uncomfortable, prerequisite to an encounter with God. Tim Drake was a father to five young children when he began attending...
Apr 24, 2024 | US & World
By David Agren , OSV News BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) — Authorities in the city of León, Nicaragua, chose an unusual place for setting up a boxing ring and staging prize fights: the courtyard of the local cathedral. They even scheduled the matches for...
Jan 22, 2024 | US & World
By Valerie Schmalz SAN FRANCISCO (OSV News) — Undaunted by rain and the dismal political outlook in California, tens of thousands of pro-life supporters turned out for the 20th annual Walk for Life West Coast in one of the most pro-abortion cities in the...
Dec 4, 2023 | US & World
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The end of the temporary cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas “means death, destruction, misery,” Pope Francis said. After reciting the Angelus prayer Dec. 3 from his Vatican residence, Pope Francis had...
Oct 18, 2023 | Local, US & World
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A “synodal church” where all the baptized participate and take responsibility for mission will need structures and processes to help church members listen to the Holy Spirit and to one another, members of the...
Oct 17, 2023 | US & World
By Justin McLellan VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Seated among Catholics cardinals, bishops, priests, religious sisters and lay Catholic leaders, 12 representatives from other Christian communities are listening and weighing in on discussions about the future of the...
Oct 12, 2023 | US & World
By Justin McLellan OSV NEWS VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The formation of seminarians, the Catholic Church as a welcoming home for all, migration and ecumenism arose as common themes of discussion among participants of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops Oct. 6, the Vatican...
Sep 15, 2023 | US & World
By Robert Alan Glover MEMPHIS, Tenn. (OSV News) — A meeting of hearts, minds and souls took place just outside of Memphis Sept. 7-9 at Collierville’s Church of the Incarnation, which hosted “Healing the Whole Person,” an annual event offered by...
Sep 5, 2023 | US & World
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Being a Catholic does not destroy or replace a person’s culture, and wanting to share the Gospel message does not mean wanting to take someone’s allegiance away from their nation. Visiting Mongolia Sept. 1-4, Pope...
Aug 30, 2023 | US & World
By Eduardo Campos Lima SÃO PAULO (OSV News) — Church activists in the Amazon are worried about the Brazilian government’s plan to exploit oil in a marine area close to the mouth of the Amazon River. Oil drilling, an issue discussed in different meetings...
