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More states move to copy ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ amid reports of inhumane...
A Central American nonprofit center in Florida reports one of its client family members -- despite having an active asylum claim and no criminal...
Bishops meet in Colombia to discuss future of church’s Pan-Amazon region
More than 90 bishops from different parts of the Pan-Amazon region gathered in Bogotá, Colombia, Aug. 17-20 to take a fundamental step in the...
US bishops’ president calls for special collection for Catholic aid groups...
The president of the U.S. bishops' conference called for a special collection to bolster the Catholic Church's response to a deepening humanitarian catastrophe in...
Catholic sisters and guests gather in downtown Atlanta for the annual...
ATLANTA -- From a message that "dread is not of God" to a "pilgrimage of hope," several hundred Catholic sisters and guests gathered in...
Feast of the Assumption celebrated for the first time since reopening...
PARIS -- For the first time since its reopening in December 2024, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris marked the feast of the Assumption with...
Pope Leo XIV has named Father Ralph O’Donnell as the new...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Leo XIV has named Father Ralph O'Donnell as the new bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, four months after then-Bishop W. Shawn...
Uruguayan bishops speak out against euthanasia bill: ‘We reiterate our support...
The Uruguay bishops' conference expressed sadness after the country's lower house of Congress approved a bill decriminalizing euthanasia.
"We reiterate our support for palliative care...
Our Sunday Visitor publications change; longstanding print periodicals will no longer...
Longtime Catholic publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc. (OSV), the parent company of OSV News, has announced it will sunset almost all of its periodical...
Pope Leo wants ceasefire in Ukraine to come out of meeting...
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) -- Arriving in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV told reporters he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir...
Retired New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes recalls horror of Katrina...
NEW ORLEANS -- In late 2005, just two months after Hurricane Katrina, the American Institute of Architects tabbed Boston-based urban planner David Dixon, to...