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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In sharing the U.S. bishops' Lenten message this year, their pro-life chairman used it "to speak to all who carry the unbearable...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance. In...
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NAPLES, Fla. (OSV News) -- Organ donor registry programs typically offered during state driver’s license renewals might seem like a straight-forward...
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(OSV News) -- Catholics across the world are embarking on pilgrimages to commemorate the Jubilee Year of Hope. Many will travel to Rome to visit the four...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops' migration chair called recent comments by Vice President JD Vance about the church's work with migrants "a tremendous...
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(OSV News) -- As part of swift and sweeping changes to immigration policy, the Trump administration is aiming to end or severely curtail two forms of immigration...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- More than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups filed a lawsuit Feb. 11 in federal court to challenge a Trump administration policy...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Richard F. Reidy, vicar general and moderator of the curia of the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts,...
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(OSV News) -- Catholic Relief Services and Caritas agencies throughout the world are warning that the Trump administration's freezing of the U.S. Aid for...
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(OSV News) -- The leader of the nation's Catholic bishops has commended Pope Francis' move to extend to the universal Catholic Church the feast of a beloved...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 11 thanked Pope Francis for his support for the U.S. bishops' work...
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(OSV News) -- Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey announced he has engaged a law firm to investigate whether the current president of Seton...
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NAPLES, Fla. (OSV News) -- A large urban setting with ample family-friendly attractions will likely host the next National Eucharistic Congress in 2029,...
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(OSV News) -- In the past four years, the TV show "The Chosen" has taken the Catholic world by storm, as thousands eagerly await the debut of the fifth...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The 11th National Eucharistic Congress will be held in 2029, building "on the grace" received in Indianapolis at the 10th congress,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued layoff notices to about a third of the staff in its Migration and Refugee Services...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Trump administration Feb. 7 changed the government's position in a Supreme Court case concerning a Tennessee state law banning...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Amid ongoing uncertainty about the future of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the former head of Catholic Relief...
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(OSV News) -- Ahead of national and international celebrations of matrimony, Bishop Robert E. Barron said that marriage is "a source of hope for all generations." Bishop...
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(OSV News) -- Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels -- although just under one quarter of the...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump said in remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 6 that he would create a task force, led by Attorney...
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(OSV News) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 5 barring biological males from competing in women's sports. "Under the Trump administration,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Claims that the U.S. bishops' conference profits from its partnership with the government to assist refugee populations that qualify...
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(OSV News) -- Skiers at Mount Shasta Ski Park in Northern California have a new protector. No, it is not a revamped ski patrol or new lifts; rather, it...
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(OSV News) -- Budgets, it has been said, are moral documents. By examining what they include and exclude -- fund and don't fund -- the apparent priorities...
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(OSV News) -- Those who embrace consecrated life "bring the hope of the Gospel to the world in both visible and hidden ways," said Bishop Earl A. Boyea...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has confirmed the national shrine status of Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville, New York. The...
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(OSV News) -- U.S. Catholic bishops -- joined by Pope Francis -- are calling for prayer after a deadly aviation crash in the nation's capital claimed dozens...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In a move welcomed by the US bishops' chair on family life, President Donald Trump Jan. 28 signed an executive order stating his...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump Jan. 28 signed an executive order stating his administration would seek to prohibit certain types of medical...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Within the first week of President Donald Trump's return to the White House, he used executive authority to block taxpayer funds...
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(OSV News) -- Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church's primary...
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(OSV News) -- Vice President JD Vance questioned the motives of the U.S. bishops' criticism of President Donald Trump's new immigration policies in a Jan....
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump on Jan. 24 used executive authority to block taxpayer funds from paying for elective abortion procedures...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump pledged to "stand proudly for families and for life" in a video message for the 52nd annual March...
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(OSV News) -- "Let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America," Vice President JD Vance told a cheering crowd at the 52nd National...
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(OSV News) -- The pro-life chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops lauded U.S. House passage of a bill Jan. 23 that would require life-saving...
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FAIRFAX, Va. (OSV News) -- When Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, some Catholics wondered aloud: In the wake of such a resounding victory -- tenaciously...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In a basilica "adorned with beautiful mosaic art," the "most impressive" mosaic was "the gathering of people from so many different...
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(OSV News) -- Several Catholic leaders are speaking out against the Trump administration's reversal of a longstanding policy limiting where immigration...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- On the eve of the national March for Life rally in Washington, President Donald Trump announced Jan. 23 he was issuing pardons...
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(CAN) -- President Donald Trump has signed an executive order billed as "defending women from gender ideology extremism," one that the White House says...
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(OSV News) -- The Catholic University of America in Washington will look into consolidating some academic departments, as part of a recently announced...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- When Una Johnson arrived in the fall of 2023 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from her home in Washington state,...
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(OSV News) -- In vitro fertilization, which is contrary to Catholic teaching, poses threats "to human dignity and human rights" in ways both "very obvious"...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined...
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HILLCREST HEIGHTS, Md. (OSV News) -- On a morning when winter weather threatened the region, Catholics from across the Archdiocese of Washington gathered...
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The New York Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a Nassau County law prohibiting men from competing in female sports at a county-run facility is constitutional. State...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The 52nd annual March for Life will take place Jan. 24 in Washington. The theme of the 2025 event is "Life: Why We March." A...
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(OSV News) -- The State Department has canceled all refugee travel to the U.S., following a Jan. 20 executive order by newly inaugurated President Donald...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the federal death penalty Jan. 20, among the first actions of his second term,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on issues including migration, the environment and the death penalty are "deeply...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump signed executive orders Jan. 20 that direct the U.S. government to only recognize two sexes, male and female,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Trump administration said Jan. 21 it would rescind a long-standing policy preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents...
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(OSV News) -- The somber mood spoke volumes. Displaying a despondent countenance before a throng of national media, University of Notre Dame football...
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(OSV News) -- As Catholics prayed across the country for President Donald Trump as he was sworn in as the nation's 47th president Jan. 20, Cardinal Timothy...
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