Pope Leo XIV turned 70 on Sept. 14, and more than 2 million prayers and works from 72 countries around the world were offered for him for the occasion through an OSV News-organized initiative, making up one very special “spiritual … Continue reading →

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Clerical sexual abuse continues to be “a real crisis,” one that the Catholic Church still must learn to deal with, particularly in improving the way it helps survivors while also ensuring the rights of the accused … Continue reading →

PARIS (OSV News) — French Christians are reeling after the brutal murder of Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old disabled Iraqi Chaldean Catholic, stabbed in the throat outside his Lyon apartment. Sarnaya, confined to a wheelchair, was livestreaming on TikTok about his … Continue reading →

(OSV News) — Human rights campaigners have accused the Belarus government of using imprisoned Catholic priests as “hostages,” as a Polish Carmelite became the latest detained for alleged espionage. “The state sees Poland and the Catholic Church as enemies. … … Continue reading →

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him. “If there’s anybody who should not be represented by an … Continue reading →

 WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states that is aimed at assisting students who are both visually and hearing-impaired, sometimes referred to as deafblind. The cut comes amid the Trump administration’s … Continue reading →

(OSV News) — As the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton marked the 50th anniversary of the 1975 canonization of its namesake on Sept. 14, the Emmitsburg, Maryland, campus hosted what was dubbed “A Day of Joy” as part of … Continue reading →

(OSV News) — “Wherever you think you see religion still serving prejudice and hatred, you are not seeing true religion,” but rather “the manipulation of religious values ​​to serve a kingdom of Man, and not the Kingdom of God,” said the … Continue reading →

(OSV News) — We are a society in crisis. There is no other way to describe the fact that, in the past month, three young men, aged 16 to 23, have either killed or intended to kill in very public … Continue reading →

When Pope Leo XIII penned “Rerum Novarum” in 1891, the world was caught in the gears of the Industrial Revolution. The smoke of factories darkened Europe’s skies, and the dignity of workers was too often trampled under the march of … Continue reading →