News & Commentary
Union vows more strikes until California hotel workers get living wages
OSV News
July 7, 2023
Hotel workers in Southern California walked off the job for three days around the Independence Day holiday asking for higher wages, affordable family health care, a retirement pension, and manageable workloads.
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Bishop: Suffering from war, hunger ‘beyond human imagination’ in Ethiopia
OSV News
July 6, 2023
Stopping food aid in Ethiopia from the United States and United Nations caused severe hunger that has killed hundreds of people in the northern Tigray region in recent weeks, and one local bishop said the situation is "beyond human imagination."
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Upcoming Tekakwitha Conference to feature healing, renewal
OSV News
July 5, 2023
Honoring Indigenous Catholics' spirituality and traditions, the Tekakwitha Conference July 19-23 is expected to draw hundreds of attendees from North America and beyond.
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Happy Interdependence Day!
Kyle Kramer
July 4, 2023
I love the Fourth of July as much as the next patriot, and I revel in destroying my hearing with loud fireworks and my cholesterol numbers with plenty of high-fat picnic fare.
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Franciscan friar sentenced to nearly a year behind bars for abortion clinic protests
OSV News
July 3, 2023
(OSV News) — Father Fidelis Moscinski, a member of the Franciscan Fathers of the Renewal, received his longest jail sentence so far — a federal conviction of six months — on June 27 for obstructing a Planned Parenthood clinic in ...
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High court strikes down affirmative action admission policies backed by Catholic universities
OSV News
June 30, 2023
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Supreme Court ruled June 29 that institutions of higher education can no longer take race into consideration for admission, a landmark decision overturning previous precedent supported by many Catholic universities and colleges. Within higher education, ...
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At memorial, Charlie Kirk’s wife says she forgives alleged shooter