VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- After a jubilee year not seen for centuries -- with one pope opening the Holy Door and another closing it -- Pope Leo XIV ended the Jubilee Year of Hope at St. Peter's Basilica...
Thousands of youth and young adults across the nation were assured of God's love -- and encouraged to respond to his call in their lives -- during an annual gathering spanning three cities, with Pope Leo XIV delivering a...
As the new year begins and the Jubilee Year comes to a close, Pope Leo XIV will hit the ground running with an extraordinary consistory taking place in Rome this week.
The Vatican confirmed in a Dec. 20 statement that...
VATICAN CITY -- The powerful and violent cannot control, suppress or commodify God's grace, friendship and will to usher in a new dawn, Pope Leo XIV said.
"Around us, a distorted economy tries to profit from everything. We see how...
Pope Leo XIV presided over the rite of the closing of the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica Jan. 6, 2026, officially ending the Jubilee of Hope which began Christmas Eve 2024. He also presided over Mass for the...
WILMINGTON – Salesianum took control with wins in four consecutive weight classes and went on to a 47-26 win over Caesar Rodney in a prime-time wrestling match on Jan. 4 at Father Birkenheuer Gymnasium.
The visiting Riders won the first...
As deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made his first appearance Jan. 5 in a New York courtroom on narco-terrorism charges after the Trump administration carried out what President Donald Trump called on social media "a large scale strike against...
Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans has issued a formal apology to abuse survivors in that archdiocese, following last month's court approval of a $230 million-dollar settlement in the five-year-long bankruptcy case.
"With this letter, I express on behalf...
A small fire at the gym expansion construction site on the campus of Saint Mark’s High School early Dec. 31 may be connected to work being done at the site, according to school President Patrick Tiernan, who said fire...
GRECCIO, Italy (OSV News) -- Eight centuries ago St. Francis of Assisi came to this hillside village to show the world that God chose to be born among the poor, staging the first Nativity scene in a cave outside...