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  • Saint of the Day

Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez

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  • Minute Meditations

You Are the Beloved

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God, Change Me

Saints Peter and Paul
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Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches Explained 

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A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. (OSV News photo/Mohamed Zakaria, MSF handout via Reuters) Editors: THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT

With thousands trapped in Sudan, Catholic leaders amplify calls to end war

A person poses with a dose of Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine in this illustration photo taken in Schwenksville, Pa., Oct. 2, 2025. (OSV News photo/Hannah Beier, Reuters)

Despite policy changes, COVID-19 vaccines may hold promising new uses

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How Doctors of the Church Are Chosen

Lakota riders arrive at the government building where they will meet Brad Upton, descendant of the commander of the Wounded Knee massacre on the Cheyenne River reservation in Eagle Butte, S.D., Nov. 6, 2019. Bishop Scott E. Bullock of Rapid City, S.D., and the state's Jesuits, have condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to retain the Medal of Honor for the U.S. soldiers that massacred 300 Lakota people at Wounded Knee in 1890. (OSV News photo/Stephanie Keith, Reuters)

Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota

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Don Cheadle stars in a scene from the movie "Hotel Rwanda." The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents are strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo from United Artists) (Oct. 19, 2009) See MEDIA NOTEBOOK Oct. 19, 2009.

Hollywood and Holiness: How Film Can Be a Teacher

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I Walk the Line

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God Beyond Our Making: Atheism, Mysticism, and the Dark Night

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Living Hope 

Profiles & Vocations

Podcast

Ronald Rolheiser, OMI

A Spirituality of Aging and Letting Go
Episode 19

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, PhD

The Catholic Imagination
Episode 14

Rosemary Stets

Franciscanism 101
Episode 8

Susan Saint Sing

Embracing God in Aloneness

Voices

Peter Feuerherd

October 2025 Issue
Brent Suter: Baseball, Faith, and the Environment 

Susan Hines-Brigger

October 2025 Issue
Medicine of Mercy

Daniel Imwalle

September 2025 Cover
Sister Norma Pimentel’s Mission 

Eunice Park

July/August 2025 Issue
On the Road Paved by St. Francis 

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Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez

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You Are the Beloved

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God, Change Me

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Saints Peter and Paul

Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches Explained 

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