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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, take part in their first and only debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City Oct. 1, 2024.

Vance and Walz debate abortion, immigration, gun policy and democracy

OSV News October 2, 2024

At the first and only debate Oct. 1 between Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, the vice presidential nominees of their respective parties, the candidates sparred with each other on topics including abortion, immigration, gun policy relating to preventing school shootings, and democracy, with each one all the while seeking to defend his own running mate while critiquing his opponent’s.

A drone view Sept. 29, 2024, shows a damaged area in Asheville, N.C., following the passing of Tropical Storm Helene.

Relief efforts underway in western North Carolina; flooding caused by Helene devastates region

OSV News October 1, 2024

Relief efforts are under way to help communities across western North Carolina reeling from the impacts of Tropical Storm Helene.

Mount Angel Abbey's mountain climbing monks are pictured after summing Oregon's South Sister Mountain July 18, 2024. Pictured are Brother Gabriel Brands, Brother Ambrose Stewart, Brother Brandon Contreras and Father Michael Shrum. (OSV News photo/courtesy Brother Ambrose Stewart)

Mountain-climbing monks enjoy views, brews, Mass on Pacific Northwest peaks

OSV News September 27, 2024

In a summer of firsts, mountain-climbing Benedictine monks of Mount Angel Abbey took to the heights — their locally brewed beer tucked in backpacks — ascending renowned peaks in the Pacific Northwest during the season’s brief window of opportunity.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio pose for a photo Sept. 22, 2024, during 38th "International Meeting for Peace" in Paris. (OSV News photo/Thibault Camus, pool via Reuters)

Stop the wars while there is still time, pope tells Sant’Egidio peace summit in Paris

OSV News September 26, 2024

For three days, Paris welcomed several thousand participants from around the globe who took part in the 38th “International Meeting for Peace.”

A suicide prevention sign is seen on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in 2008. Catholic ministry leaders shared with OSV News pastoral strategies for preventing suicide, as the nation observes Suicide Prevention Month in September. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

‘We need to talk about suicide,’ says Catholic mental health expert

OSV News September 25, 2024

As National Suicide Prevention Month draws to a close, a Catholic mental health expert told OSV News that open, ongoing conversations about suicide are crucial.

Abbé Pierre, a well-known activist for the poor and the homeless who died in 2007 at the age of 94, is pictured in this Oct. 3, 2002, file photo. French Catholics were shocked to learn July 17, 2024 of the "sexual assault or sexual harassment" allegations against the famed priest. (OSV News photo/Philippe Wojazer, Reuters)

French bishops urge Vatican to help investigate Abbé Pierre

OSV News September 24, 2024

As the Emmaus Community for the poor investigates accusations of sexual abuse against its once-iconic, now disgraced, founder Abbé Pierre, the case made international headlines as Pope Francis commented on it while on his return voyage to Rome from Asia last week.

An asylum-seeking migrant family from Haiti cross the Rio Bravo to turn themselves in to U.S Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 22, 2022. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Ohio bishops demand respect for migrants’ ‘infinite dignity’ amid false claims, threats

OSV News September 23, 2024

Ohio’s bishops are urging Catholics and all people of good will to “turn to God and ask for eyes to see the infinite dignity of every person” amid false claims surrounding Haitian immigrants in that state’s town of Springfield, which have prompted bomb threats and hoaxes.

OSV News

Vance and Walz debate abortion, immigration, gun policy and democracy

Relief efforts underway in western North Carolina; flooding caused by Helene devastates region

Mountain-climbing monks enjoy views, brews, Mass on Pacific Northwest peaks

Stop the wars while there is still time, pope tells Sant’Egidio peace summit in Paris

‘We need to talk about suicide,’ says Catholic mental health expert

French bishops urge Vatican to help investigate Abbé Pierre

Ohio bishops demand respect for migrants’ ‘infinite dignity’ amid false claims, threats

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