News & Commentary
Pro-life leader says executive order is effort ‘to appease abortion lobby’
OSV News
July 11, 2022
A national pro-life leader said President Joe Biden's July 8 executive order on abortion "confirmed the White House is working to appease the abortion lobby to the detriment of women and their unborn children."
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Survivor of monastery shooting says answer to violence is ‘love’
OSV News
July 8, 2022
“God forgive me, I hope he’s in heaven,” Benedictine Father Kenneth Reichert said about the man who entered Conception Abbey 20 years ago, pointed a semi-automatic MAK-90 rifle at him and fired twice.
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Ojibwe artist’s beadwork selected for display to Holy See
OSV News
July 7, 2022
With a needle and thread and painstaking attention, Jessica Gokey "paints" images of flora and fauna, two tiny beads at a time.
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After shooting, cardinal urges unity to ‘build path to safety and peace’
OSV News
July 6, 2022
Saying he watched "in horror" news reports in the aftermath of a mass shooting during a suburban Fourth of July parade, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for the victims.
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First in-person LGBTQ ministry conference builds ‘community’
OSV News
July 5, 2022
More than 200 people from all over the United States and Canada, as well as from the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and Uganda, gathered June 24-25 in New York City for the first in-person Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference.
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Pope couldn’t go to Congo, but Congolese in Rome pray with him
OSV News
July 4, 2022
Despite disappointment that Pope Francis was not in Congo July 3, some 2,000 people—most of them Congolese—joined the pope for Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, singing, swaying and ululating.
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Pope to visit Assisi, Matera in September
Pope Francis will make back-to-back pastoral visits to the Italian cities of Assisi and Matera at the end of September, the Vatican announced.