OSV News

By Archbishop Paul D. Etienne, OSV News Since Pope Francis called for a worldwide Synod on Synodality nearly two years ago, there have been many...

Perhaps the strongest message to emerge from Villanova University's April 18 Second Annual  -- "Unitas in Action: Fighting Poverty and Living Sustainably" -- is...

FRONT ROYAL, Va. -- In March 2021, artist and alumna Mandy Hain was perched, brush in hand, on a cramped crane platform more than...

By Megan Ulrich, OSV My parish recently held a "town hall” event so parishioners could get a pulse on our church and have a chance...

UNITED NATIONS -- In Somalia, 8.3 million people are in urgent need of assistance due to widespread drought that has displaced 1.4 million people,...

JERUSALEM-- When the raging ocean finally spit young Regine Canetti out, lifting her up a huge wave onto the thorny coast of the Turkish...

Their births were separated by almost a century, but Venerable Father Augustus Tolton (1854-1897) and Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman (1937-1990) both endured...

BRAINTREE, Mass. -- On the 10th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley reflected on the impact the event had on...

A shelter-in-place order was issued April 13 at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington following a possible threat of an active shooter,...

The biblical author of Proverbs advises, "Drink water from your own cistern; flowing water from your own well." But in the centuries before Jesus...