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Bishop Alberto Rojas of San Bernardino, Calif., the main celebrant, distributes Communion to a detainee during a Mass on the grounds of the ICE Processing Center near Adelanto, Calif., Dec. 10, 2025. Attendees said the Mass, which took place in the Mojave Desert, was deeply emotional for both the bishops and the roughly 300 detainees present.

California bishops celebrate ‘very powerful’ Mass for detainees in ICE facility

OSV News December 19, 2025

A group of seven California bishops celebrated Mass at the ICE Processing Center outside the town of Adelanto in the Mojave Desert on December 10, providing communion to the roughly 300 detainees present.

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo.

Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Viganò, found guilty of schism

OSV News July 8, 2024

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former nuncio to the United States, has been excommunicated after being found guilty of schism, the Vatican said.

A man leaves an empty church in Bonn, Germany, June 12, 2020. The Catholic Church in Germany continues to shrink, according to a new report released June 27, 2024, by the German bishops' conference. The latest statistics show that more than 400,000 people left the country's Catholic Church last year. (OSV News photo/Harald Oppitz, Reuters)

Report: Germany’s Catholic Church shrinks; over 400,000 left in 2023

OSV News July 5, 2024

The Catholic Church in Germany continues to shrink, a new study has found. More than 400,000 people in the European country left the church in 2023.

Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House, attends a march in downtown El Paso, Texas, Jan. 7, 2023, to demand an end to the immigration policy called "Title 42" and to support the rights of migrants coming to the border. A state judge ruled July 2, 2024, that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to shut down Annunciation House, a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants, violated the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act. (OSV News photo/Paul Ratje, Reuters)

Judge: Shutting down Catholic ministry to migrants violates religious freedom

OSV News July 4, 2024

A state judge July 2 denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to shut down Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants.

Children are pictured in an undated photo enjoying an outdoor session at the Montessori school managed by Sister Pupika Perera, of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, at Nuwereliya, Sri Lanka. (OSV News photo/Thomas Scaria, Global Sisters Report)

Women religious empower, educate tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka

OSV News July 3, 2024

Behind every cup of world-famous Ceylon tea, there is a story of exploitation and bonded labor, said Apostolic Carmel Sister Maria Amali, whose congregation has worked among Sri Lanka's tea plantation workers for almost 100 years.

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington is seen June 17, 2024. The Supreme Court on June 27, 2024, dismissed a case concerning emergency abortions in Idaho, sending the case back to lower courts without resolving the central question about conflicting state and federal laws. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)

SCOTUS rules presidents have immunity in core constitutional acts, not unofficial acts

OSV News July 2, 2024

Presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution as it relates to core constitutional acts of their office, presumptive immunity for official acts, but none for unofficial acts, a divided Supreme Court ruled July 1.