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Indiana Youth Reflect on ‘Life-Changing’ Experience in Lisbon
By Paulina Guzik, OSV News LISBON, Portugal (OSV News) – Selia Nunez celebrated her 16th birthday two weeks ago, and now she is in Lisbon, enjoying her first World Youth […]
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National
Pope Prays for WYD: The Church is Not a ‘Club’ for the Elderly
By Justin McClellan VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic Church is not a “club” for the elderly; it needs the participation of young people to keep it alive and ensure […]
National
‘Never, Never Lose Faith,’ Says Man Whose Miraculous Cure as Child Led to St. Kateri Tekakwitha’s Canonization
By Katie Yoder OSV News – Jake Finkbonner first decided to become a medical doctor when he was in middle school. “I’d love to help people the same way that […]
National
News Briefs: August 6, 2023
U.S. Official Calls State of Religious Freedom in Nigeria ‘Abysmal,’ Says Country in ‘Slow -Motion Genocide’ WASHINGTON, D.C. (OSV News) – The chairman of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, […]
National
The ‘life-changing’ experience of World Youth Day
BY MARIA WIERING AND PAULINA GUZIK OSV News — In 1997, then-19-year-old Jessica Smith sang on the papal stage at World Youth Day (WYD) in Paris as pilgrims made their […]
National
News Briefs: July 23, 2023
Pence Pushes Back on False Claims about Ukraine’s Religious Freedom at GOP Forum DES MOINES, Iowa (OSV News) – Former Vice President Mike Pence had a tense exchange with former […]
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Our World Has Lost the Catholic Understanding of Human Anthropology
By Theresa Farnan, Ph.D. In a growing national divide, 16 states have recently passed laws limiting or banning “gender transition” procedures, while three states — and counting — have declared themselves “trans […]
National
Call to get involved from the ICC
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We as Catholics have a duty to bring morality into the public forum. The Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC) works to bring morality into the […]
Vatican
Pope appoints hundreds to attend Synod of Bishops on Synodality
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has appointed more than 450 participants, including dozens of religious men and women and laypeople from around the world, to attend the first general […]
National
News Briefs: July 9, 2023
Franciscan Friar Sentenced to Nearly a Year Behind Bars for Abortion Clinic Protests NEW YORK (OSV News) — Father Fidelis Moscinski, a member of the Franciscan Fathers of the Renewal, […]
National
Indiana Supreme Court Declares Law Restricting Abortion Constitutional
INDIANAPOLIS (OSV News) — Indiana’s 2022 law protecting most unborn lives from abortion, which has been under a preliminary injunction since Sept. 22 last year, was declared constitutional by the […]
National
News Briefs: June 25, 2023
U.S. Bishops Advance Pastoral Initiatives to Strengthen Church Amid Discussions on Eucharist, Priesthood, Synodality ORLANDO, Florida (OSV News) — Meeting in Orlando for their spring assembly, the U.S. bishops moved […]