PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — Vigilance, honesty, emotional intelligence and faith all play critical roles in healing from the long-term trauma of violent attacks, two Catholic psychologists told OSV News. The Sept. 10 targeted killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an … Continue reading →

ROME (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV returned to his Augustinian confreres to encourage their new leader and to offer some final thoughts as they prepared to conclude their general chapter discussions about vocations, formation and education. The pope also congratulated … Continue reading →

Soaring housing prices are quietly but powerfully discouraging young people from getting married, starting families or having more children. If you can’t afford a home, it’s easy to doubt whether you can offer your children a stable, secure life. That … Continue reading →

(OSV News) — On Sept. 12, The Catholic University of America, the national university founded by the U.S. bishops, announced that Taylor Black, director of AI & Venture Ecosystems in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, has … Continue reading →

MIAMI (OSV News) — Dressed in the customary yellow colors of the event and with umbrellas in hand, elementary school student Aniela Alejandra Garcia and her mother, Yeily Garcia, didn’t let the weather stop them from approaching the statue of the … Continue reading →

ERBIL, Iraq (OSV News) — Christians in northern Iraq have marked a powerful milestone of faith and survival. From Sept. 9-13, believers from the Chaldean, Assyrian, Syriac Catholic and Syriac Orthodox churches joined together in Erbil for the Festival of the … Continue reading →

ROME (CNS) — Humanity has the potential to overcome the violence and hatred that is increasingly dividing people, Pope Leo XIV said in an excerpt from his first interview as pope. “I think it’s very important to start a deeper … Continue reading →

ROME (CNS) — In situations where “hatred seemed to have permeated every aspect of life,” modern Christian martyrs showed that love is stronger than death, Pope Leo XIV said at an ecumenical prayer service. The prayer service Sept. 14, the … Continue reading →

(OSV News) — This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s Sept. 14, 2025 Angelus message given in St. Peter’s Square on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Sunday! Today the Church celebrates … Continue reading →

(OSV News) — If St. Elizabeth Ann Seton‘s life was written as a Hollywood screenplay, a script doctor might say it was simply too tragic for audiences to believe — let alone that the heroine would repeatedly persevere. The death of … Continue reading →