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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Los Angeles called on "all Catholics and people of goodwill to stand against bigotry and hate in any form"...
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (OSV News) -- In a 27-19 vote late May 23, the South Carolina Senate passed a six-week ban on most abortions, sending the measure to Republican...
Read More(OSV News) -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a May 23 report revealing decades of abuse by Catholic clergy against almost 2,000 children.The...
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(OSV News) -- When pop punk band Simple Plan sing their platinum-selling hit tune "I'm Just a Kid," adult listeners might be forgiven for thinking the...
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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Los Angeles called on "all Catholics and people of goodwill to stand against bigotry and hate in any form"...
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(OSV News) -- One of the leading figures in the Catholic Church's effort to protect children from sexual abuse, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, is...
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LINCOLN, Neb. (OSV News) -- Nebraska lawmakers passed a measure May 19 prohibiting abortion at 12 weeks gestation and banning gender-altering surgeries...
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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- After criticism from Catholic groups and local fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers removed a self-described "leading-edge order of...
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(OSV News) -- Two U.S. and two Japanese bishops have issued a joint letter to leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations, calling on them to take "concrete...
Read More(OSV News) -- The South Carolina House of Representatives approved on May 17 a ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, paving the way for a...
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(OSV News) -- The Diocese of Oakland, California, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to address more than 330 lawsuits from survivors of alleged clerical...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Parents in the U.S. are more likely to prioritize passing on their religious views to their children rather than their political...
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(OSV News) -- A research library at an Ohio university houses what it calls "the largest dedicated collection of materials on Mary in the world" -- and...
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HOUSTON (OSV News) -- Entering a cavelike entrance, visitors at the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston confront a life-size statue lying in...
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(OSV News) -- "There are no unwanted children," an anonymous inspiring quote declares, "just unfound families." If that's so, the almost 400,000 children...
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(OSV News) -- Former President Donald Trump took questions from New Hampshire Republican and undeclared voters at St. Anselm College during a CNN town...
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(OSV News) -- Missouri lawmakers passed a bill May 10 banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Some Catholic governors are embracing the use of capital punishment as part of their political platforms despite the Catholic...
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(OSV News) -- Amid an increasingly complex health care landscape, Catholic nurses provide enduring care to both body and soul, experts told OSV News.Every...
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(OSV News) -- Cybersecurity at Catholic parishes is less robust than it could be, but several free and low-cost resources -- along with a healthy dose...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet has launched an international movement to revitalize the collaboration between ordained priests...
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(OSV News) -- When Mattel announced the release of a Barbie doll portrayed with Down syndrome April 25, the global toymaker explained the addition to its...
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(OSV News) -- Iowa is poised to enact legislation that loosens its child labor protections, a trend in some Republican-led states that has prompted concern...
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STOWE, Vt. (OSV News) -- One hundred and eighty years ago Ira Dutton was born in Stowe on farmland upon which now stands Blessed Sacrament Church. "No...
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(OSV News) -- Dallas Bishop Edward J. Burns addressed the faithful of the diocese "with a heavy heart" late May 6 after at least eight people, including...
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HUNTINGTON, Ind. (OSV News) -- Our Sunday Visitor, one of the largest Catholic resource providers in the world, announced May 5 an incident regarding data...
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(OSV News) -- A Catholic hospital in Oklahoma said the federal government has backed off after presenting it with a choice to either extinguish a candle...
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(OSV News) -- A possible Eucharistic miracle in Connecticut is now under investigation by the Vatican.Archbishop Leonard P. Blair told a Hartford television...
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(OSV News) -- A Catholic hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said the federal government has presented it with a choice to either extinguish a candle in its chapel's...
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(OSV News) -- North Carolina legislators appear poised to pass a ban on abortions after 12 weeks despite objections from the state's governor. The Care...
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(OSV News) -- A Catholic response to those experiencing gender dysphoria "must both affirm God-given sex and recognize the struggle of the person in front...
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(OSV News) -- Just over 10 years ago, Sister Margaret Nacke -- a Sister of St. Joseph of Concordia, Kansas -- was living in Belleville, a Kansas town known...
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In recent years -- especially since 2016 -- several U.S. states have made moves to legalize the practice of physician-assisted suicide. To date, nine states...
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(OSV News) -- Abortion bans failed in Nebraska and South Carolina, two Republican-led states, in the final week of April following a successful effort...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, and Coadjutor Bishop Richard...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops' pro-life committee chairman said he is "grateful" a proposed constitutional amendment -- one that could have expanded abortion...
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (OSV News) -- A floating monument to Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, made its maiden voyage to Manhattan April...
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(OSV News) -- Lawmakers in the Kansas Legislature voted April 26 to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a "born-alive infants protection act." The...
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