Mar 26, 2026 | US & World
By OSV News DUBLIN (OSV News) — On March 17, as millions mark St. Patrick’s Day, a Catholic school in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland is celebrating one of its most famous alumni. Oscar-winning actress Jessie Buckley, a former student of the Ursuline...
Mar 25, 2026 | US & World
By Richard Szczepanowski Catholic Standard , OSV News WASHINGTON (OSV News) — St. John Paul II “changed the Church and the world, and you can encounter that here” at the national shrine in Washington named for the Polish pope, said Grattan Brown, the...
Mar 25, 2026 | US & World
By OSV News COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (OSV News) — Several U.S. dioceses and archdioceses are reporting an uptick in adults preparing to join the Catholic Church at Easter, with some dioceses saying they are seeing “record” numbers. That tracks with 2023 and...
Mar 24, 2026 | US & World
By Courtney Mares OSV News (OSV News) — Bells rang out over the hilltop town of Assisi on the night of March 22 as Franciscan friars closed the monthlong public veneration of the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, which drew more than 370,000 pilgrims from around...
Mar 11, 2026 | Local, US & World
By Scott Noto OSV News (OSV News) — On March 19 each year Catholics celebrate the solemnity of St. Joseph, protector of the family and patron of the universal Church and of workers. The importance of this day in Catholic tradition extends throughout the world,...
Feb 24, 2026 | US & World
By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News (OSV News) — Mexican bishops called on the faithful to follow safety protocols as violence broke out in several states following the military’s killing of a powerful cartel boss. In a message published by the Mexican...
Feb 6, 2026 | US & World
By Sarah Mac Donald / Global Sisters Report OSV News (OSV News) — Twenty years ago, Sister Helene Hayes addressed a group of sisters in Ireland about the worldwide problem of human trafficking. The American Good Shepherd sister showed the sisters a video about...
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...
