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Leaders of local Catholic Charities agencies from around the country traveled to Washington for a Nov. 18, 2025 summit organized by Catholic Charities USA, to share firsthand insights and experiences in serving those experiencing homelessness in their communities.

Catholic agencies strategize how to serve homeless amid major US policy change

OSV News November 21, 2025

The major change in federal policy on homelessness and its potential impact on the people Catholic Charities agencies serve was among the issues discussed at a summit of Catholic Charities' leaders and local politicians on Nov. 18.

Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, left, a former Vatican diplomat who served in Washington, talks to his lawyer during his sentencing in a Vatican court in this June 23, 2018, file photo.

Priest convicted of distributing, possessing child pornography said to still work at Vatican

OSV News July 17, 2025

Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a former Vatican diplomat who was convicted of distributing and possessing child pornography, continues to work at the Vatican Secretariat of State as one of several clerks, a report says.

Mexican migrant workers pick blueberries during a harvest at a farm in Lake Wales, Fla., March 31, 2020.

Poll: Record-high percentage of US adults say immigration a good thing for country

OSV News July 16, 2025

As the Trump administration implements its hardline immigration policies, a record-high share of U.S. adults said immigration generally benefits the country, a new Gallup Poll found.

A file photo shows a "BAN NUKES!" slogan which was made of candle lights in front of the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan.

80 years after ‘Trinity,’ Catholic-hosted gathering calls to abolish nuclear weapons

OSV News July 15, 2025

Representatives of various groups, including one that earned a Nobel Peace Prize, gathered at an interfaith event in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to call for nuclear disarmament worldwide.

Crime scene tape is seen in this illustration photo.

Kansas Catholic school building vandalized, defaced with swastikas

OSV News July 14, 2025

A Catholic school building in Kansas has been extensively vandalized, with the perpetrators defacing the property with swastikas.

Women attend Mass in Goma, Congo, July 8, 2025, following the June 15 Vatican beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi. Blessed Kositi, a 26-year-old layman from Congo, was a member of the Congolese branch of the Community of Sant'Egidio, which called him "a martyr of corruption." Kidnapped July 7, 2007, after refusing a bribe, his body was discovered two days later with evident signs of torture. Blessed Kositi's remains were transferred from a public cemetery to a cathedral in Congo's eastern city of Goma during a special Mass. (OSV News photo/Arlette Bashizi, Reuters)

Congolese Catholics honor their beatified martyr of ‘integrity and honesty’

OSV News July 11, 2025

Hundreds of Catholics in Congo gave thanks for the recent Rome beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a customs official who was killed and tortured for refusing a bribe.

Pope Leo XIV and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wave from the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, during their meeting July 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Ukraine religious leaders issue ‘desperate cry’ to world to end Russia’s war

OSV News July 10, 2025

Ukraine's religious leaders have issued a "desperate cry" to the global faith community in ending "the humanitarian and spiritual catastrophe" resulting from Russia's war on their nation.