OSV News

BALTIMORE-- In recent years, a growing awareness of injustice and calls for reform have led to a racial reckoning, with businesses, corporations, nonprofit organizations...

When Mattel announced the release of a Barbie doll portrayed with Down syndrome April 25, the global toymaker explained the addition to its product...

By Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio A statement titled “The right not to have to migrate” was recently issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human...

NEW YORK — Sadness, relief and hope accompanied the April 13 decision by the Sisters of Charity of New York to embark on a...

By Sam Lucero CHAMPION, Wis.  -- A Marian shrine in rural northeast Wisconsin, the only shrine in the United States to be designated by the...

By Kyril Wolfe, OSV News I used to be spiritually allergic to Marian devotion. Even though I grew up saying the rosary with my family,...

By Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens OSV News I am always amazed that on the Road to Emmaus, as the two disciples journeyed from Jerusalem, they did...

NEW YORK -- Many are remembering how Harry Belafonte, who died April 25 in New York at age 96, was so inspired by the...

LOS ANGELES -- Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan was remembered as a generous soul who "got things done" for the city he loved...

WASHINGTON  -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, and Coadjutor Bishop Richard G. Henning of...