Trump order against youth gender transition hailed by US bishops’ family life head
byBy Kate Scanlon, OSV News WASHINGTON — In a move welcomed by the US bishops’ chair on family life, President Donald Trump Jan. 28…
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Pope sends condolences to families, US for midair collision near DC
byBy Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis offered his condolences to the families of victims and to the entire nation…
Lunar New Year coinciding with Jubilee Year seen as time for ‘change, renewal’
byBy OSV News WASHINGTON — Coinciding with the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year, the Lunar New Year “can be a time of change and renewal”…
At audience, pope talks about St. Joseph, comments on world events
byBy Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — St. Joseph is the perfect model of listening to the Lord and quietly putting his…
Canon, civil law collide on seal of confession, says expert
byBy Gina Christian, OSV News Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the…
Guiding souls: Jubilee volunteers lead pilgrims across Holy Door
byBy Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service ROME — Before the millions of pilgrims expected to come to Rome during the Holy Year 2025 cross…
Catholics in social ministry told to build bridges with God’s help ‘organizing hope’
byBy Kimberley Heatherington, OSV News WASHINGTON — The theme of bridge-building in community outreach and organizing spanned several presentations at the 2025 Catholic Social…
Amid horrors of Holocaust, Polish Franciscan mother superior saved hundreds of Jewish children
byBy Alina Petrowa-Wasilewicz, OSV News WARSAW, Poland — “I will not send away any Jewish child,” assured Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw…
Bishops across Europe remember Holocaust victims, urge world to fight rising antisemitism
byBy Jonathan Luxmoore, OSV News Church leaders across Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with calls to…
Catholic communication must engage with the world, pope says
byBy Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Church communications cannot exist in an “enclosure” in which Catholics merely talk among themselves and…