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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.

Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio, Southern Sudan, delivers the homily during Mass at Old Mission Santa Barbara in California Oct. 13, 2019. Since the May 19, 2024, disappearance of Father Luke Yugue, who ministers in the diocese, and his driver Michael Gbeko, government authorities have not given concrete information about the condition of the men, according to Bishop Kussala. (OSV News photo/Octavio Duran)

South Sudan bishop urges government to find missing priest, driver dead or alive

OSV News May 23, 2024

As a South Sudanese bishop planned a memorial Mass for a priest and driver who went missing in late April, he demanded the authorities find the men dead or alive.

Kansas City Chiefs' Harrison Butker celebrates winning Super Bowl LVII with his children in Glendale, Ariz., Feb. 12, 2023. In a May 11 commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., Butker told graduates, "There is nothing good about playing God with having children -- whether that be your ideal number or the perfect time to conceive. No matter how you spin it, there is nothing natural about Catholic birth control." (OSV News photo/Caitlin O'Hara, Reuters)

Catholic women push back at Butker graduation speech

OSV News May 22, 2024

Several Catholic professional women, as well as an order of women religious, have challenged a controversial graduation speech by NFL player Harrison Butker.

During a prayer service and candlelit procession at Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Baltimore April 8, 2024, Manuel Alonso wears a custom shirt with the flags of national origin for the six crewmen who perished in the March 26 collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. (OSV News photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)

Mass remembers workers killed in bridge collapse, sailors, seafarers

OSV News May 21, 2024

The annual "Mass for the Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Mariners and People of the Sea" celebrated at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington honored the memory of six Hispanic workers who lost their lives in the ...

Mexican migrant workers pick blueberries during a harvest at a farm in Lake Wales, Florida, U.S., March 31, 2020. (OSV News photo/Marco Bello, Reuters)

Fatal bus crash in Florida a reminder of how farmworkers are largely forgotten

OSV News May 20, 2024

Victims of a fatal bus accident that claimed the lives of eight migrant farmworkers were remembered at a prayer vigil.

A general view shows the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris March 30, 2024, with a new spire topped by the rooster and the cross, as restoration works continued following a devastating fire in 2019. (OSV News photo/Gonzalo Fuentes, Reuters)

As cross and tower bells return to Notre Dame, firefighters’ chaplain recalls battle to save icon

OSV News May 17, 2024

The cross over Notre Dame's choir and the eight bronze bells in the north tower can now be reinstalled in their rightful place in the iconic Paris cathedral.

This is an updated map showing the four routes of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to the National Eucharistic Congress in 2024. The pilgrimage launches from four points in the U.S. May 18-19 and converges eight weeks later in Indianapolis for the July 17-21 congress. (OSV News illustration/courtesy National Eucharistic Congress)

Eucharistic Pilgrimage kicks off May 18-19 with Masses, processions at iconic US sites

OSV News May 16, 2024

In 1776, Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, dedicated a small mission church in San Francisco to St. Francis Assisi. On May 18, the mission of San Francisco de Asis, also known as Mission Dolores, will host an ...