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(OSV News) -- Beginning March 27, the fifth season of the hit series "The Chosen," which focuses on the life of Jesus and his closest disciples, will hit...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To help people who cannot travel to Rome but want to pray at the tomb of St. Peter and cross the threshold of the Holy Door, St....
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church must respond to cultural challenges facing marriage and family life with unity and compassion, Pope Francis said,...
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Pope Francis recognized a miracle attributed to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati's intercession on Monday, paving the way for his canonization as a saint...
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In today's complex society, it takes effort to ensure that your hard-earned money, once invested and out in the financial ether, doesn't fund the...
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(OSV NEWS) -- A tour of a relic of St. Jude conducted by Father Carlos Martins, a priest of the Companions of the Cross religious community known for hosting...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Using what the Vatican called an "equipollent" or equivalent beatification, Pope Francis recognized as "blessed" a 15th-century Spanish...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Doubling down on the centrality of synodality in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that it is now up to local churches to accept...
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OXFORD, England (OSV News) -- Churches and faith groups across the United Kingdom have condemned a bill to allow physician-assisted suicide and stepped...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis' schedule of liturgies in December and January has expanded. The pope, who...
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(OSV News) -- The longest-serving president of Georgetown University will step down after 23 years for health reasons. John J. DeGioia said in a Nov....
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(OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of New York has announced staff cuts and a major revamp of its pastoral offices, as it sheds its longtime headquarters building...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The annual Prayer Vigil for Life will take place Jan. 23-24, 2025, the U.S. bishops' conference announced Nov. 22. The event...
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(OSV News) -- Amid controversy over religious-themed tattoos sported by President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary Pete Hegseth, a U.S....
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A touring relic will give the faithful in Washington and seven states a rare opportunity to venerate St. Thomas Aquinas, one of...
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INDIANAPOLIS (OSV News) -- Mary with the Christ Child has long been an iconic Christmas image for cultures and peoples around the world. Starting more...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, as the sole administrator...
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- In the wake of recent high-profile cases of financial mismanagement at parishes, experts said transparency, accountability and...
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- News that canonization dates have been set for Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, who have become popular patrons for teens...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said the international community should investigate whether Israel's military actions in Gaza constitute genocide. "According...
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(OSV News) -- Before joining other pro-life advocates at the March for Life in Washington, Shannon Allen spent an evening with thousands of other teens....
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(OSV News) -- Vice President-elect JD Vance's wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, once told him that she believed his 2019 conversion to Catholicism "was good...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis, who will celebrate his 88th birthday in December, has approved simplified liturgical rites for the death of a pontiff. His...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis announced that he will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will...
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PARIS (OSV News) -- Miraculously missed by burning beams falling from the roof on April 15, 2019, and waiting for five years to make it back to Notre Dame...
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(OSV News) -- The ruling Sandinista regime expelled the president of the Nicaraguan bishops' conference, further decimating the country's Catholic leadership...
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- After back-to-back natural disasters in recent weeks, the Cuban people "are suffering immense hardships and … need our...
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RICHMOND, Va. (OSV News) -- Virginia's Catholic bishops decried a move by a Virginia House of Delegates' committee Nov. 13 to advance proposed constitutional...
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BOSTON -- "Do you know him?" Archbishop Richard Henning asked Bishop Cristiano Barbosa as they observed the room at the 140th anniversary gala for St....
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DORCHESTER -- Robert Credle likes to say that before Roxbury was ghettoized, and before it was gentrified, he was there. The Credles were the third Black...
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BOSTON -- Archbishop Richard Henning celebrated his first Catholic Appeal Mass of Appreciation at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Nov. 18. The annual...
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A priest of the archdiocese since his Feb. 10, 1965, ordination at Holy Cross Cathedral by Richard Cardinal Cushing, Father Richard J. Shmaruk died in...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Considered purely from an artistic viewpoint, the lavish musical "Wicked" (Universal) represents a confluence of the best both...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Why not make a Christmas-themed action flick starring Dwayne Johnson as Kris Kringle's chief bodyguard? The answer to that question...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Lady of letters Gertrude Stein once famously observed of Oakland, California, the city in which she was raised, "There is no...
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As we reflect on the 95-year legacy crafted not on easy roads but on paths that required courage, resilience, and compassion, the Carmelite Sisters have...
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[Ed. -- The Sisters of Jesus Crucified and the Sorrowful Mother celebrated their centennial at their Brockton convent on Sept. 15, 2024. Cardinal O'Malley...
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As we look around our world, our neighborhood, and the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, it's clear the Spirit is calling us to a newness...
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The Sisters of St. Anne, joined by residents of Alliance at Marie Esther Health Center, Marlborough, planned and celebrated the Sept. 1 Day of Prayer for...
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(OSV News) -- Green nuns. Green sisters. Even "eco-nuns." Throughout America -- and indeed, the world -- thousands of religious sisters are daily witnessing...
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80 Years Sister Kathryn Donovan, CSJ, Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston Sister Rita Welch, CSJ, Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston Sister Ann Marie McAndrews,...
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(OSV News) -- A cardinal in Singapore has called for religious and racial unity after a priest was stabbed in the face during Mass, an incident that has...
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DUBLIN (OSV News) -- From Sydney to Santiago, Chile, Catholics across the globe are coming together this November to stand in solidarity with those who...
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(OSV News) -- For Emily Stimpson Chapman, an adoptive mother of three, adoption reflects God's relationship with humanity. "God calls us as children by...
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BRAINTREE -- After two arson attacks targeted Catholic churches in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island four days apart, the Archdiocese of Boston...
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READVILLE -- Matt O'Neil has often heard that God gives his hardest battles to his toughest soldiers. He wasn't sure he was strong enough for this. In...
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WALTHAM -- "JESUS is like a computer," explains a series of posters in the computer lab of Our Lady's Academy in Waltham. "He ENTERs your life, SCANs...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – An artistic and scientific giant gets the Ken Burns treatment in the documentary "Leonardo da Vinci." The results are predictably...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – In recent years, auteur Jordan Peele has used the horror genre to explore race relations as well as other weighty subjects....
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Gentle and family-oriented, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (Lionsgate) offers top-flight holiday entertainment for a wide...
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The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, is preventing priests from entering hospitals in Nicaragua to...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops wrapped up the second day of public sessions for their annual fall assembly in Baltimore with a focus on three...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrapped up its fall plenary assembly's final public session Nov. 13, in which the bishops...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- On the first day of the public session of the U.S. bishops' annual fall meeting in Baltimore, the importance of the church's mission...
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LONDON (OSV News) -- Leading British Catholics have urged their church to avoid involvement in the resignation of the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury,...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Efforts to slow climate change and mitigate its impact, particularly on the poor, are being thwarted by selfishness, the Vatican...
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LONDON, England (OSV News) -- Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, resigned Nov. 12 due to failures in dealing with...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- The public session of the fall plenary assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened Nov. 12 with remarks from Archbishop...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- As the U.S. bishops began their fall general assembly Nov. 11, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio urged his brother bishops to beg for...
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(OSV News) -- In vitro fertilization is a topic that received significant national attention during the past election season as candidates made it a policy...
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(OSV News) -- The Diocese of Oakland, California, filed a formal Chapter 11 reorganization plan Nov. 8 in an effort to settle some 345 claims of sexual...
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(OSV News) -- A small group of priests serve one of the largest archdioceses in the United States. But their parish could be as far away as a military...
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AMSTERDAM (OSV News) -- The Dutch bishops' conference and Amsterdam's St. Nicholas Parish reacted with horror to the violence against Israeli soccer supporters...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appointed a new preacher of the papal household: a 53-year-old Italian Capuchin priest who studied computer science...
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(OSV News) -- As Catholics in the U.S. wrap up National Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 3-9, one of the world's largest Catholic fraternal organizations announced...
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Euthanasia is a growing area of concern for those who advocate for the dignity of human life in all its stages. In Canada, its widespread legalization...
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WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) -- On Warsaw's Narbutta Street, amid a carpet of autumn leaves, a neoclassical building stands between bare birches, fronted...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians should make a practice each night of identifying signs of hope, even small ones, that came their way during the day, Pope...
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BOSTON -- Continuing thousands of years of church tradition going back to the Apostles, Archbishop Richard G. Henning was installed as the 10th bishop...
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REVERE -- Her name was Teresita. At 5'1" and 100 pounds, the Salvadoran woman's small stature belied her powerful presence and tenacity. When...
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BOSTON -- When visiting and celebrating Mass at Regina Cleri for the first time as archbishop of Boston on Nov. 1, All Saints' Day, Archbishop Richard...
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LAWRENCE -- "Oh my gosh!" A pre-K student at Lawrence Catholic Academy exclaimed when Archbishop Richard Henning walked into her classroom. "He's so...
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Following is The Pilot transcription of Archbishop Richard G. Henning's Installation Mass homily delivered at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston's...
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A priest with deep roots in the Merrimack Valley who spent most of his priestly ministry in the archdiocese in chaplaincies at area hospitals and prisons...
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Ordained just over five years ago at Holy Cross Cathedral by Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, Father Corey Bassett-Tirrell died unexpectedly on Oct....
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The saints can sometimes seem like lofty, unrelatable figures. It’s rare to find contemporary examples of sanctity, and...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Designed to present a portion of the Gospel narrative to fans of mixed martial arts fighting and heavy metal music, the biblical...
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