National
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. […]
National
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 […]
National
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 […]
National
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 […]
National
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 […]
National
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 […]
National
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
National
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 […]
Vatican
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 […]
National
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 […]