WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 took up a case regarding whether state and local bans on semiautomatic rifles, sometimes called assault weapons, violate the Second Amendment.
The case concerns a state ban on the AR-15 and...
Hours before a June 26 border Mass celebrated by Catholic bishops in Nogales, Arizona, OSV News spoke with Dominican Father Brendan Curran of the Province of St. Albert the Great, regional promoter of justice and peace for the Dominicans...
A woman religious in McAllen, Texas, told OSV News the "power of prayer" was key to the release of a religious sister detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as she walked to Sunday Mass -- but foreign-born religious...
Despite a personal appeal from Pope Leo XIV, the Society of St. Pius X went ahead July 1 with the unauthorized consecration of four new bishops at its seminary in Écône, Switzerland, with Mass broadcasted live and thousands of...
DOVER — There's a saying in sports that the best-officiated games are the ones where no one even notices the guys and gals in the striped shirts. The very nature of the job involves disappointing half the players, coaches...
Updated with comments from Moira Sheridan, president of Delaware Right to Life.
A proposed amendment to the Delaware state constitution that would codify a right to abortion did not receive a vote in the state House of Representatives on June...
DENTON – For Rami Qumsieh, the Holy Land is more than a sacred plot of real estate in the Middle East. Although he now lives in south Florida, it’s been home to him and other Palestinian Catholics since Jesus...
Scripture readings for July 5, 2026, Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Zec 9:9-10 Ps 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 Rom 8:9, 11-13 Mt 11:25-30
In an age when it seems everyone wants to have more, be more, say more, achieve more, we're...
NOGALES, Ariz. -- Five Catholic bishops from the United States-Mexico border region led a day of pastoral accompaniment in Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico, June 26 as the United States approaches its 250th birthday as a nation.
"We are here...
VATICAN CITY-- Pope Leo XIV has named Sister Alessandra Smerilli prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced June 30, making her the latest woman elevated to lead a major Vatican office under the new...