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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.

Pope’s health improving; he keeps some appointments

OSV News November 27, 2023

Pope Francis is breathing easier after undergoing intravenous antibiotic treatment for pulmonary inflammation, the director of the Vatican press office said.

Michael Voris, founder of Church Militant, leads the praying of the rosary in Baltimore Nov. 16, 2021, during the organization's rally near the hotel where the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was holding its fall general assembly Nov. 15-18. (CNS photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)

Church Militant says founder asked to resign for breach of morality clause

OSV News November 24, 2023

Church Militant/St. Michael's Media said Nov. 21 its founder and former CEO Michael Voris "has been asked to resign for breaching the Church Militant morality clause," and that his resignation was accepted by the board.

Avoiding Conflict on Thanksgiving

Marge Steinhage Fenelon November 23, 2023

For those who have difficult family situations, Thanksgiving can be a dreaded event that means dashed hopes, conflict, and sadness. But it needn't be that way.

People hold Spanish flag flies as they take part in a in Madrid's Cibeles Square Nov. 18, 2023, after Spain's socialists reached a deal with the Catalan separatist Junts party for government support, which includes amnesties for people involved with Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid. (OSV News photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)

Spanish cardinal urges calm as protests mount over separatist amnesty

OSV News November 22, 2023

The president of the Spanish bishops' conference has appealed for calm following mass protests against the planned release of jailed Catalan separatists under a deal with the new socialist-led government.

Sister Norma Pimentel, a Missionary of Jesus, poses Nov. 11, 2023, at the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, which helps migrants released by Border Patrol reach their final destinations in the United States. The center, a project of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Brownsville Diocese, has served more than 1,500 migrants daily (OSV News/David Agren)

‘We Have To Defend Life,’ Says Sister Norma, Who Ministers at Border

OSV News November 21, 2023

In many ways, Sister Norma, a Missionary of Jesus, has become the face of the Catholic response to migrants in the Rio Grande Valley, where she leads Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Brownsville.

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Catholic Church ‘never despairs’ of souls lost to suicide, say pastoral leaders

OSV News November 20, 2023

When his 29-year-old daughter Katie died in 2016, Deacon Edward Shoener shared a heartrending truth in the obituary: she had taken her life amid a long-running struggle with depression.