The wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is seen in the background as migrants from South and Central America look to surrender to immigration officials after crossing into the United States from Mexico in Ruby, Ariz., June 24, 2024. (OSV News photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)

In 2024, state laws of interest to Catholics: abortion, IVF, immigration

OSV News December 16, 2024

State laws of interest to Catholics spanned policy areas from abortion to IVF to immigration in 2024.

A file photo shows a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe as it is unloaded from a truck after a procession to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, where Mass was celebrated.

California bishops back migrants fearing mass deportation in Guadalupe message

OSV News December 13, 2024

(OSV News) — As President-elect Donald Trump threatens to enact “the largest deportation” in U.S. history, California’s Catholic bishops have issued a message of support for migrants,

Migrant farmworkers attend an outdoor Mass Sept. 26, 2019, in Hatch, N.M., during a pastoral encounter by U.S. bishops with migrants at the border.

No sanctuary? Trump reportedly plans to reverse policy, permit ICE arrests at churches

OSV News December 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump plans to rescind a long-standing policy preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from making

Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, arrives for an extradition hearing at Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Dec. 10, 2024.

Family of suspected CEO killer ‘shocked and devastated,’ known for strong support of Jesuit education

OSV News December 11, 2024

(OSV News) — The suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson hails from a prominent Maryland family whose matriarch was a strong supporter of Jesuit

The execution chamber in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.,

US bishops join pope, other groups urging Biden to commute 40 death sentences

OSV News December 10, 2024

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. bishops’ conference was among the groups that urged President Joe Biden on Dec. 9 to commute exiting federal death

Clergy arrive for the inaugural Mass, with the consecration of the main altar, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, five-and-a-half years after a fire ravaged the Gothic masterpiece, as part of ceremonies to mark the cathedral's reopening after its restoration, in Paris, Dec. 8, 2024.

With inaugural Mass, Notre Dame reveals ‘the Lord does not abandon his own’

OSV News December 9, 2024

PARIS (OSV News) — Chilling rain and the “City of Lights” completely locked down due to high profile guests did not stop the crowds from

Displaced Syrians who fled from the Aleppo countryside ride on a vehicle with their belongings in Tabqa, Syria, Dec. 3, 2024. (OSV News photo/Orhan Qereman, Reuters)

Christians in Aleppo feel an uneasy calm amid rebel takeover of Syrian city

OSV News December 6, 2024

An uneasy calm hangs over Aleppo, Christian leaders report, following the recent lightning takeover of Syria’s second-largest city by Islamist rebels driving out forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad.