Abortion -- an act performed with the sole or primary intent of ending human life in the womb -- is never medically necessary, according to medical doctors and Catholic experts on the is ...

Massimo Mennelli, from the parish of St. Joseph the Artisan in San Severo, Italy, holds a doll representing Blessed Carlo Acutis created by his wife, Fiorella Sacco, and other volunteers at their ...

As Israeli military operations in Gaza continued, Pope Leo XIV met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican. The meeting Sept. 4 came just a week after Pope Leo appeal ...

Q: As a divorced, over-50 Catholic man with an annulment, I met a Catholic woman my age with the same history of divorce and annulment. After dating for a while we began to talk about marriage and wen ...

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, visited Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis Sept. 3 and laid flowers at the temporary memorial where two children were killed an ...

Lk 14:25-33 A sabbath dinner, Jesus is at the home of a Pharisee. Jesus heals a man, a scandalous miracle on the sabbath. He ...

Blessing her forehead and both hands with holy water from Lourdes, France, as she lay unconscious in a hospital bed in Minneapolis, Auxiliary Bishop Michael J. Izen of St. Pa ...

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" -- the Trump administration's signature legislation -- creates a new federal tax credit for individuals who make donations to 501(c)(3) public charities providing ...

The human longing for love is not a sign of weakness but demonstrates that no one is completely self-sufficient and that salvation comes from letting oneself be loved and assiste ...

Pope Leo XIV turns 70 on Sept. 14, and OSV News is celebrating by gathering a host of prayers into a very special ...

It's been more than seven years since Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt became a household name virtually overnight. Then -- five months shy of turning 99 -- Sister Jean captured the hearts o ...

Attacks on the Catholic Church in Nicaragua have fallen in 2025, but a report on church persecution in the Central American county attributes the decline to few priests and religious rep ...