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Thousands of young Poles make their way through the streets of Czestochowa, Poland, July 19, 2025, singing and praying as they approached the Jasna Góra Marian shrine. This year's annual pilgrimage and camp marked the 25th anniversary of the Foundation "Dzielo Nowego Tysiaclecia" (Work of the New Millennium), a vibrant "living memorial" to St. John Paul II, supporting talented youth from underprivileged backgrounds. (OSV News photo/courtesy Sara Janikowska, Work of the New Millennium)

Poland’s memorial to St. John Paul II marks 25 years of transforming lives

OSV News July 25, 2025

Thousands of young Poles made their way through the streets of Częstochowa July 19, singing and praying as they approached the Jasna Góra Marian shrine.

Biden calls for sweeping changes to high court, including term limits and enforceable ethics code

OSV News July 30, 2024

President Joe Biden July 29 called for legislation and a constitutional amendment that would result in massive changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including term limits for justices and an enforceable ethics code.

Melted chairs are shown outside the burned Maligne Lodge July 26, 2024, after wildfires encroached into Jasper, Alberta, in the overnight hours of July 24 and 25. Archbishop Richard W. Smith of Edmonton, Alberta, conveyed his "sorrow, solidarity and support to the people of Jasper and the parish community of Our Lady of Lourdes" in a July 25 statement.

Archbishop prays for residents, tourists in Canadian Rockies town devastated by wildfires

OSV News July 29, 2024

Edmonton Archbishop Richard W. Smith's heart is with the people of Jasper, Alberta, and tourists forced to evacuate from the wildfire devastating the small alpine town and the neighboring famous Jasper National Park in the overnight hours of July 24 ...

Migrant children taking part in a caravan toward Mexico's northern border rest at a school in Los Corazones, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Jan. 8, 2024. The U.S. Justice Department has found that the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children had systemic sexual abuse and harassment of children in its care. (OSV News photo/Jacob Garcia, Reuters)

Advocates ‘troubled’ by alleged abuse of migrant kids in US-funded shelters

OSV News July 26, 2024

Catholic immigration and anti-trafficking advocates are expressing grave concern over alleged systemic sexual abuse of unaccompanied migrant children by staff of a private contractor for the U.S. government.

Comedian Bob Newhart cracks up Carmen Nanko and Father Robert Friday with a joke about the rain falling on the graduation ceremony May 21,1997 at The Catholic University of America. (OSV News photo/Catholic University of America, CNS archive)

Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart

OSV News July 25, 2024

About the same time Chicago-area native George Robert Newhart was inching his way from an accounting job toward a career in comedy, his older sister Joan was professing her final vows as a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli, Gaza City's Holy Family Parish priest, is seen with a parish child in Gaza City during the May 16-19, 2024, visit of the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Father Romanelli returned to his parish community after he was stranded in Jerusalem after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel ad subsequent Israel-Hamas war that has left the northern Gaza Strip in ruins. He (OSV News photo/courtesy Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)

Gaza parish preps for school year; students haven’t reported since October

OSV News July 24, 2024

Since his return to Gaza City's Holy Family Parish in May, Father Gabriel Romanelli has been working to organize educational and pastoral activities for the parish youth.