News & Commentary
Catholics offer support as Texas flood’s catastrophic death toll rises
OSV News
July 8, 2025
Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott declared Sunday, July 6 a day of prayer throughout the state, as the death toll from catastrophic flooding July 4 has now risen to at least 82 people as of July 7, including 28 children in ...
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Town officials vote to buy Pope Leo’s childhood home as ‘historical site’
OSV News
July 7, 2025
An Illinois town intends to purchase the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, hoping to turn the property and its surroundings into a historical site.
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Miami clergy raise concerns as Trump tours Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
OSV News
July 3, 2025
Most Americans agree on the need for good U.S. border security, but to hear politicians and civil authorities hurl insults and jokes at the expense of migrants as Florida opened its new "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center in the Florida ...
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Senate passes Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’; measure heads to House
OSV News
July 2, 2025
Senate Republicans on July 1 passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would enact key provisions of President Donald Trump's legislative agenda on taxes and immigration, without any Democratic support and losing three members of their ...
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Idaho Catholics unite in prayer for firefighters killed in sniper ambush
OSV News
July 1, 2025
An Idaho pastor told OSV News his parish turned to prayer and Eucharistic adoration, following a deliberate and deadly attack on first responders.
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Slain Minnesota lawmaker, husband remembered for lives lived ‘with purpose, meaning’
OSV News
June 30, 2025
Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were shot dead in their home June 14, were remembered at their funeral Mass June 28 for living their lives "with purpose and meaning."
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Judge blocks, for now, Planned Parenthood defunding provision backed by bishops