News & Commentary
Quadruple amputee has set high goals for college, future
OSV News
June 24, 2021
When asked how many surgeries he has had since contracting a deadly bacterial infection more than a decade ago, 21-year-old Franklin Mejias Castellano must pause and think for a moment.
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Nun calls protection of voting rights a moral issue at Georgetown forum
OSV News
June 23, 2021
Protection of voting rights is a moral issue, according to a Black sister who was on a panel discussion during a June 21 online forum on voting rights.
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UN investigators call on church to do more to stop abuse
OSV News
June 22, 2021
While acknowledging Vatican-mandated reforms in the handling of clerical sexual abuse, four U.N. special rapporteurs urged the Vatican to make it mandatory that church officials everywhere report abuse allegations to civil authorities.
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With immigration, bishops urge attitude of welcome
OSV News
June 21, 2021
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, encouraged prelates meeting via Zoom for the U.S. bishops' virtual spring assembly to find ways to welcome what may be a growing number of immigrants to their dioceses.
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Supreme Court upholds health care law’s individual mandate
OSV News
June 18, 2021
In a 7-2 decision June 17, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying the states that sued over the law did not have the legal right to do so.
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In virtual summer assembly, USCCB’s Archbishop Gomez calls for unity
OSV News
June 17, 2021
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops urged unity in an address June 16, the first day of the prelates' three-day spring plenary assembly, held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Planned Parenthood report: increase in abortion, decrease in health services