In this file photo, before entering the conclave, cardinals concelebrate Mass for the election of the Roman pontiff in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 12, 2013. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Why ‘Conclave’ is captivating audiences as the season’s big indie hit

OSV News December 3, 2024

Secrecy and gossip. Intrigue and politicking. Unexpected twists and startling revelations.

The Living Presence of Love

Roch Niemier, OFM November 25, 2024

Francis’ biographers point out that when people met with him, or heard him preach, it was not simply a question of listening to words of peace and joy.

Migrants are detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Sunland Park, N.M., Oct. 24, 2024, after they crossed into the United States from Mexico. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Catholic groups advocate for immigrants amid new administration, Congress

OSV News November 22, 2024

Catholic organizations have reiterated their “solidarity with immigrants” and shared what the first 100 days of a second Trump administration may bring on immigration policy.

Indianapolis Archbishop Charles C. Thompson offers an opening prayer at a rally Nov. 17, 2024, on the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis to call on Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb to halt the execution of Joseph Corcoran scheduled for Dec. 18. It would be the first execution in the state in more than a decade. The rally was sponsored by the Indiana Abolition Coalition. Activists pushing President Joe Biden to commute existing federal death sentences during his final months in office hope that if he does that, his action could be "the beginning of the end" of the death penalty at the federal and state levels. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)

Report examines ‘persistent racial disparities’ in federal death penalty use

OSV News November 20, 2024

A new report by the Death Penalty Information Center examined what it called persistent racial disparities in federal death penalty prosecutions.

Comfort from the Cross

Susan Saint Sing, PhD November 17, 2024

We as moderns view the whole of Francis’ life—beginning, middle and end.

Elizabeth of Hungary: Beloved Sister in a Troubled World

Donna Foley, OFS November 16, 2024

May I tell you the story of a woman who was married at 14 and dead at 24? Does that sound like the making of

Embracing God in Aloneness

Susan Saint Sing, PhD November 12, 2024

Susan Saint Sing, OFS, PhD, is the author of God’s Love Song with Fr. Murray Bodo and Francis and the San Damiano Cross: Meditations on Spiritual Transformation. She

girl courageously leaping/stepping over a gap in the wall

Live the Gospel Life

Daniel P. Horan, Phd November 3, 2024

What would it look like to live in the now? The question itself might sound a little tired or clichéd, but the truth is that to live in the now is to live the freedom of the children of God.

Singular Holiness

Murray Bodo, OFM, and Susan Saint Sing October 31, 2024

Francis’s greatness, I think, comes from his ability to transfer, and transform, his internal conversations to the physical reality of the external world.