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News Briefs: July 13, 2025

USCCB President: One Big Beautiful Bill Will Cause ‘Greatest Harm’ to Poor WASHINGTON, D.C. (USCCB) – Reacting to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by the U.S. […]

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A Windy City Celebration

Pope tells Crowd in Chicago, ‘God Can Work in Our Lives’ BySimone Orendain CHICAGO (OSV News) – Under a bright sun, around an altar set up at centerfield, more than […]

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News Briefs: June 29, 2025

Three Years After Dobbs Decision, States Still Navigating Abortion Policy Changes WASHINGTON, D.C. (OSV News) – Three years after a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its prior […]

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Bishop Rhoades Cheers Ruling on Wisconsin Catholic Charities

As chairman of the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Religious Liberty, Bishop Rhoades cheered a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that affirmed the work being […]

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News Briefs: June 15, 2025

Pope on Pentecost: God’s Love Breaks Down Walls, Opens Borders VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In a world marked by wars and where people are disconnected and numb with indifference, Pope […]

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Alasdair MacIntyre, ND Professor, Catholic Philosopher, Dies at 96

(OSV News) – In the Flannery O’Connor short story “Good Country People,” a mother ruefully wishes her offspring had chosen another career path than philosophy because “You could not say, ‘My […]

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News Briefs: June 1, 2025

Justices Deadlocked on Oklahoma Catholic Charter School Case WASHINGTON, D.C. (OSV News) – An evenly-divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, May 22, sidestepped a major ruling in a case regarding what […]

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Perspective

An American Pope?

By Marcel LeJeune “While we live, we will never see an American Pope!” I was wrong and am happy to admit it. Let me jump right into the deep end […]

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Perspective

Forcing Clergy to Break the Seal of Confession Harms Victims

By Cecilia Cicone The seal of the confessional is one of the first things Catholic children learn as they are preparing for their first confession. At first, it comes as […]

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News Briefs: May 25, 2025

Lisieux Celebrates 100 Years Since the Canonization of ‘The Little Flower’ PARIS (OSV News) – Catholics in Normandy have commemorated the 100th anniversary of the canonization of St. Thérèse of […]

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Trump Names Bishop Rhoades, Others to Religious Liberty Advisory Board

WASHINGTON D.C. (OSV News) – Bishop Rhoades was one of three U.S. Catholic bishops who were among religious leaders President Donald Trump appointed to an advisory board of his recently established Religious […]

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News Briefs: May 18, 2025

Pope Leo to Inaugurate His Papacy on May 18 VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Leo XIV will officially inaugurate his papacy with Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, May […]