News & Commentary
Supreme Court upholds gun ban for domestic abusers
OSV News
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court June 21 upheld a federal ban on the possession of firearms by domestic abusers, rejecting an argument that the ban violated the Second Amendment.
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New book examines fall of Roe and role Catholics played in effort
OSV News
June 21, 2024
In the nearly 50 years separating Roe v. Wade from the Supreme Court's June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision that reversed the court's previous abortion precedent, abortion opponents argued against the Roe ruling many of them saw ...
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Deceased Spanish Jesuit accused of abusing ‘hundreds’ of Indigenous girls
OSV News
June 20, 2024
A Spanish Jesuit has been discovered to have documented his abuse of hundreds of Indigenous girls while serving as a missionary in rural Bolivia.
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Surgeon general’s social media warning ‘one of many steps’ say experts
OSV News
June 19, 2024
A call by the U.S. surgeon general for health warning labels on social media marks "one of many steps that need to be taken" to reduce the digital environment's risks to kids and youth.
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Carlo Acutis Youth Camp officials overjoyed about namesake’s canonization
OSV News
June 18, 2024
Its mission is to lead young people to a deep relationship with Jesus Christ through his church. And the Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp does just that each summer for young Catholics in West Virginia.
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US bishops discuss poverty, pastoral frameworks, proposals at spring meeting
OSV News
June 17, 2024
Gathered in Louisville for their spring plenary assembly, the U.S. bishops' June 12-14 meeting saw a mix of important matters discussed, starting with how the bishops would continue to address the scourge of poverty in the U.S. and ending with ...
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Pope donates ambulance, opens rehabilitation center in Ukraine
Pope Francis blessed an ambulance filled with medicine and first-aid equipment that will travel some 1,800 miles from the Vatican to support those wounded in Ukraine.