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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump on May 8 congratulated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump on May 8 congratulated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery...
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VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- Anticipation and excitement were in the air in St. Peter's Square and the surrounding environs as thousands of faithful and...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As the Catholic Church and its cardinals prepare for May's conclave, a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that U.S. Catholics...
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ROME (OSV News) -- Three days ahead of the start of the conclave, the cardinals took the morning off from the general congregation meetings and, in some...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump posted an image that appeared to be created by artificial intelligence depicting himself as pope just days...
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(OSV News) -- Mission is at the heart of Caroline Stanfill's life. Among her many jobs, she's worked in special education; for religious sisters; within...
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(OSV News) -- Personal encouragement to consider whether Jesus Christ is calling them to priesthood, along with regular Eucharistic adoration, continue...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., suggested April 29 the budget blueprint President Donald Trump calls "one big, beautiful bill"...
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(OSV News) -- As the official days of mourning -- the Novemdiales -- have begun with the April 26 funeral of Pope Francis, 135 cardinal electors are engaging...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump on May 1 signed an executive order creating a religious liberty commission during an interfaith event marking...
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(OSV News) -- The New York Assembly April 29 passed a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state, despite strong opposition from the state's...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on April 30 heard oral argument in a case concerning the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City's effort to establish...
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(OSV News) -- Pilgrims of all ages from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia are making what their archbishop called "an absolute pivot," as they find themselves...
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(OSV News) -- For decades, Dominican Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella immersed herself in the ministry of teaching, not retiring until she was 84. Now,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Catholic immigration advocates welcomed an order from the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily barring the Trump administration from...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court April 22 heard a case concerning a request from an interfaith group of Maryland parents to allow them to...
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(OSV News) -- Days into Pope Francis' papacy in 2013, Massimo Faggioli remembers thinking that the new pope was "going to be the biggest story in the Catholic...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Francis' approach to key issues including his concern for the environment, immigration and abortion did not fit neatly into...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump plan to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, he said April 21. He also directed...
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- Faithful are recalling Pope Francis' 2015 apostolic journey to the U.S. as a moving encounter, with an impact still felt a decade...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, "will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church and of society,"...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump, officials in his administration and other U.S. political leaders issued statements expressing condolences...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump, officials in his administration and other U.S. political leaders issued statements expressing condolences...
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(OSV News) -- America's tumultuous immigration system is again impacting nonordained religious workers from other countries -- including Catholic religious...
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(OSV News) -- At the April 19 Easter Vigil at parishes across America, the church will welcome many new Catholics. Perhaps that doesn't sound extraordinary....
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(OSV News) -- Legislation that would require clergy to report child abuse or neglect in Washington state was recently approved by the Legislature and has...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As legislators in multiple states seek to advance so-called "medical aid in dying" laws, a Catholic ethicist warned the practice...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Thousands of Catholics across the country will unite in prayer for pregnant and parenting moms in need during an April 19-27 novena...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (OSV News) -- Deacon Nicholas Monnin remembers the first time he sang in front of an audience. He was a student at the Cathedral School...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A federal judge on April 11 declined to block the Trump administration from carrying out Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions...
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(OSV News) -- Two years ago, Maximilian Glamuzina first learned about Blessed Carlo Acutis during a school Mass, when his pastor preached about the teenager's...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, Catholic Relief Services,...
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CHICAGO (OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Chicago filed a countersuit March 24 against seven alleged victims of clergy child sex abuse who either have pending...
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(OSV News) -- In a world where material success often takes center stage, what does true success mean for women today? How can they navigate the delicate...
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(OSV News) -- In a world economy rocked by the whiplash of American trade tariffs that has spared few countries, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Brian Burch, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, defended the Trump administration's cuts to...
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (OSV News) -- Pope Francis has named a new bishop of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop Bruce Alan Lewandowski, C.S.R.,...
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