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Pope Leo XIV greets visitors ahead of the Angelus prayer in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope condemns Israel’s attack, calls for end to ‘barbarity’

Catholic News Service July 22, 2025

The "barbarity of war" and forced displacement of people have to end, and civilians and places of worship have to be protected, Pope Leo XIV implored.

A bird flies over the statue of the Risen Christ on top of the facade of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during Pope Francis' weekly general audience Nov. 13, 2024. The motto of a U.S. youth ministry called the Dead Theologians Society is "mortuum mundo, vivum in Christo" ("dead to the world, alive in Christ,"), which echoes St. Paul's call in Romans 6:11 to be completely transformed in accord with Christ's death and resurrection. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Dead Theologians Society brings new life to youth ministry

OSV News November 18, 2024

A youth ministry founded by a former rock drummer is sounding the call to grow closer to Christ by imitating the lives of the saints, and by praying for the souls in purgatory.

the Virgin of Paris or the Virgin of the Pillar, is Notre Dame Cathedral's most emblematic object.

Our Lady’s statue will be the first one to return to her Notre Dame Cathedral

OSV News November 15, 2024

In what is seen by the church of Paris as a triumphant return, the famous statue of the Virgin of the Pillar will be restored to her place in Notre Dame Cathedral Nov. 15.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, addresses the COP29 Leaders Climate Action Summit Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Selfishness is blocking progress on climate change, cardinal says

OSV News November 14, 2024

Efforts to slow climate change and mitigate its impact, particularly on the poor, are being thwarted by selfishness, the Vatican secretary of state told world leaders at the COP29 climate conference.

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks during a news conference at a Nov. 12, 2024, session of the fall general assembly of the USCCB in Baltimore. Also pictured are Bishops Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, and Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va.

Bishops stress standing for dignity of human life following presidential election

OSV News November 13, 2024

The Catholic Church "always insists on the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death, and we continue to insist on that," Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services ...

Federal judge strikes down Biden program shielding undocumented spouses from deportation

OSV News November 12, 2024

A federal judge in Texas on Nov. 7 struck down a Biden administration program to protect from deportation and provide a path to U.S. citizenship for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants living in the country who are married to ...

20 years of abuse settlements for US Catholic dioceses exceeds $5 billion total

OSV News November 11, 2024

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles' $880 million abuse claims settlement, announced Oct. 16, brings the total payouts of U.S. Catholic dioceses for abuse claims since 2004 to more than $5 billion -- and possibly more than $6 billion -- OSV News has ...