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Archbishop Richard G. Henning

Catholic Schools Week

Michael Pakaluk

What is enlightenment? -- among angels and us

Maureen Crowley Heil

Let There be Peace on Earth

Father Robert M. O'Grady

Praying during the Holy Year

Eileen McLaughlin

Happy New Year!

Scott Hahn

The anointing

Forming the Future: Brother Timothy Paul's 50 years of dedication to St. John's Prep

Cheverus profiles: Alden and Kelly Thatcher of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross

What does the church teach about immigration and deportation?

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'Jesus was her everything': The 'Fastest Nun in the West' moves closer to canonization

ANALYSIS: Migrants in US programs highly vulnerable to mass deportation push

SEEK25 conferences in US, Germany energize young Catholics to share hope in Jesus

Washington's new archbishop seeks to 'know and understand this magnificent community of faith'

Families are 'not alone' in sorrow over deaths, injuries suffered in NOLA terror attack, Biden says

Biden cancels final foreign trip, including papal audience, amid California wildfires

What does the church teach about immigration and deportation?

Jan. 10 2025

The Catechism of the Catholic Church instructs, "The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search...

'Jesus was her everything': The 'Fastest Nun in the West' moves closer to canonization

Jan. 10 2025
ZOEY MARAIST, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- A religious sister who befriended Billy the Kid, calmed a lynch mob and testified against human trafficking is one step closer to canonization....

ANALYSIS: Migrants in US programs highly vulnerable to mass deportation push

Jan. 10 2025
KIMBERLEY HEATHERINGTON, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Since President-elect Donald Trump's Nov. 5 victory, most Americans expect him to tackle the issue of immigration within the first 100 days...

SEEK25 conferences in US, Germany energize young Catholics to share hope in Jesus

Jan. 10 2025
LINDA PETERSEN, LAURETTA BROWN, OSV NEWS

SALT LAKE CITY (OSV News) -- The excitement in the air was palpable as more than 17,000 Catholics descended on the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt...

Washington's new archbishop seeks to 'know and understand this magnificent community of faith'

Jan. 10 2025
RICHARD SZCZEPANOWSKI, OSV NEWS

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Hours after Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego was announced Jan. 6 as the new archbishop of Washington, the prelate praised...

Families are 'not alone' in sorrow over deaths, injuries suffered in NOLA terror attack, Biden says

Jan. 10 2025
PETER FINNEY, OSV NEWS

NEW ORLEANS (OSV News) -- Saying he carried with him the sorrow of the nation for a "horrific act of terrorism" on New Year's Day that claimed the lives...

Forming the Future: Brother Timothy Paul's 50 years of dedication to St. John's Prep

Jan. 10 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

DANVERS -- Xaverian Brother Timothy Paul, the ninth-grade biology teacher at St. John's Prep in Danvers, has the remarkable ability to say words like...

Cheverus profiles: Alden and Kelly Thatcher of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross

Jan. 10 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- Knowing the layout of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross has served Kelly Thatcher well. At the height of the clergy abuse scandal, the cathedral's...

Archbishop Henning opens Jubilee Year in archdiocese

Jan. 3 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BRAINTREE -- Archbishop Richard Henning formally initiated the Jubilee Year of 2025 in the Archdiocese of Boston with an opening Mass celebrated in the...

Jubilee pilgrimage churches

Jan. 3 2025

In addition to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (bostoncathedral.com), Archbishop Richard G. Henning has announced the following churches as Jubilee Churches...

Archbishop marks first Christmas in Boston with Masses, service

Jan. 3 2025
GREGORY L. TRACY PILOT STAFF

During his first Christmas in Boston, Archbishop Richard G. Henning visited programs helping those in need and celebrated Mass with local parishioners...

Forming the Future: The middle school mentorship program at St. Patrick School, Stoneham

Jan. 3 2025
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

STONEHAM -- "Middle school is pretty challenging," says Courtney Finocchiaro, the art teacher at St. Patrick School in Stoneham. She should know. As a...

Crece en la esperanza, compártela con los demás, dice un cardenal al abrir una Puerta Santa

Jan. 9 2025
POR CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROMA (CNS) -- Durante el Año Santo 2025, los católicos están llamados no solo a crecer en la virtud de la esperanza, sino también a...

Incendios en Los Ángeles: Un incendio en Pacific Palisades destruye la iglesia del Corpus Christi y causa daños a una escuela

Jan. 9 2025
POR PABLO KAY, OSV NEWS

LOS ÁNGELES (OSV News) -- Una iglesia en Pacific Palisades parece haber sido destruida y más de 60 escuelas católicas fueron cerradas debido...

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