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Emerging Age-Verification Laws Will Make the Internet Safer

A new Utah law, SB 287, which went into effect on Wednesday, May 3, began to restrict minors’ access to pornographic websites. The law requires websites that distribute “pornography and other […]

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OSV Launches ‘Comprehensive Investigation’ After ‘Suspicious Activity’ Found on Network

HUNTINGTON, Indiana (OSV News) — Our Sunday Visitor, one of the largest Catholic resource providers in the world, announced on May 5 an incident regarding data security within the company […]

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How to Make Our Catholic Parishes Vibrant Once Again

A recent Pew Research Center study caught the eye of many Catholics, despite the fact that the information the study conveyed wasn’t really news. Latinos are disaffiliating from the Catholic […]

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Why Censoring Classic Books is Not the Way Forward

“I  don’t believe in that,” widely censored author Judy Blume scoffed in a recent interview with Variety magazine, responding to news that Puffin Books would revise Roald Dahl’s works. Dahl […]

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What to Make of the Great Synodal Debate

The Catholic Church today can, in an important sense, be described as a Church in upheaval. A significant part of that reality arises from the fact that the Church does […]

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One year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

From the first moments of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Church in the United States united in praying for a swift, peaceful resolution to the […]

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Africa Is Not the Future, It Is Today

By the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board  Often European and American Catholics cite the Church in Africa as the future of the Church. The World Christian Database projects that, by […]

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The global Impact of a German Pope

By Paulina Guzik (OSV News) — Very few figures within the contemporary Church have influenced it as deeply and for as long as Pope Benedict XVI, who died on Dec. […]

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Live in the Spirit of Bob Cratchit this Christmas

Charles Dickens writes in the preface to his famous story “A Christmas Carol”: “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall […]

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John the Baptist, Advent Prophet of Hope

Five major pro-life ballot measures saw defeat on Election Day. Months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, leaving cities destroyed and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead. Americans […]

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The Rise in Enrollment at Catholic Schools Should Not Be Ignored

Finding silver linings within the destabilizing and tumultuous years of the COVID-19 pandemic is not always easy. But the major shifts that took place in public life as a result […]

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Archie Battersbee’s Story Highlights the Risks Of Legal Euthanasia

Archie Battersbee’s life tragically ended in a London hospital on Saturday, Aug. 6, when the 12-year-old was removed from the critical life support his family legally fought to continue. Archie’s […]