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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa greets parishioners in the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City July 20, 2025. He entered the Gaza Strip July 18 together with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, offering his support, closeness and prayers following the Israeli army's July 17 attack on the parish. He is accompanied by Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest who was injured during the attack, which killed three Christians sheltering in the parish. (OSV News/courtesy Holy Family Parish)

Patriarch’s visit ‘a miracle,’ while parishioners in Gaza feel desperation

OSV News July 23, 2025

Parishioners of Gaza's Holy Family Church are feeling "horror" and almost a sense of "desperation" after an Israeli tank shell struck the church.

Writer and actor Patrick Sandford rehearses "Groomed" with saxophone player Marcus Benoit before their performance Oct. 20, 2024, at Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. The play addresses child sexual abuse.

Albany Diocese hosts US premiere of ‘Groomed,’ written and performed by abuse survivor

OSV News November 1, 2024

An award-winning, one-man play that made its U.S. public premiere in the Diocese of Albany was a breakthrough event, but not for reasons one might associate with a night at the theater.

Ohio archdiocese ends partnership with Girl Scouts over its view of human sexuality

OSV News October 30, 2024

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has announced it will discontinue its partnership with the Girl Scouts of the USA due to the organization's "impoverished worldview regarding gender and sexuality," which conflicts with Catholic teaching.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization's section for new evangelization and the chief organizer of the Holy Year 2025, presents the official mascot of the Jubilee Year during a news conference at the Vatican Oct. 28, 2024.

Pope to open Holy Door at Rome prison at beginning of Jubilee 2025

OSV News October 29, 2024

Two days after opening the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica to inaugurate the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis will travel to a Rome prison to open a Holy Door as a "tangible sign of the message of hope" for ...

Pope Francis delivers his homily during the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on synodality in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 27, 2024.

Synod gave life to new way of being church, members say

OSV News October 28, 2024

Members of the Synod of Bishops experienced a new way of being church and are committing to sharing it, said the two cardinals who guided its work.

A migrant identifying himself as Luis tries to book an appointment for entering the U.S. using the CBP One smartphone app, while resting in Mapastepec, Mexico. Frustrated with the lack of appointments available via the app, Luis and hundreds of other migrants in Mexico's southern Chiapas state formed a caravan to the U.S. in early October. (OSV News photo/David Agren)

Mexican lay couple help migrants amid rising dangers, difficulties

OSV News October 25, 2024

Daniel Hernández Rabanales got the call two days in advance: A caravan was forming and he needed to be ready.

Pope Francis expels more Sodalitium members

OSV News October 24, 2024

Pope Francis has expelled two more members and upheld the expulsion of one member of the controversial lay movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae due to allegations of sexual abuse, abuse of power and financial malfeasance.