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"Don't call me a saint," admonished Dorothy Day, journalist, activist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. "I don't want to be dismissed so...

By Justin McLellan, CNS VATICAN CITY  -- Through five pontificates, popes have instructed the faithful at their weekly general audiences, condemned war, called for peace...

By Jim Davis, OSV News MIAMI — Betty Gonzalez was shivering in a jacket and two sweaters one cold night in Coral Gables. She'd lost...

WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Ronald W. Gainer of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who is 75, and has appointed Auxiliary Bishop...

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...