Gov. Mike DeWine announced June 16 his opposition to capital punishment, as Catholic opponents of the practice urged him to end the practice in the state before he leaves office.
During his time in the U.S. House and Senate, DeWine...
The faithful of course expect to find heaven in their parish -- but what about when Mass is over?
Trinity House Community, a Catholic ministry founded and managed by husband-and-wife team Soren and Ever Johnson, can help with that, promising...
HUNTINGTON, Ind. -- OSV News Editor-in-Chief Gretchen R. Crowe has been named publisher at Our Sunday Visitor Inc. (OSV) and will oversee the company's book, catechetical, news and parish resources, beginning June 22.
She will assume this position while continuing...
In the pleats, cuffs and hems of the habits of the Sisters of Charity of New York, theater professor Darrin Pufall Purdy found a type of calling of his own.
While attempting to reconstruct habits worn by nuns for the...
Ahead of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual observance of Religious Freedom Week, OSV News spoke with Emily Schumacher-Novak, associate director of education and outreach for the USCCB's Secretariat of Justice and Peace.
Schumacher-Novak explained that this year's observance...
Hearing the story of Water is Life Kenya did not motivate Tyler Kulp to simply raise some money for the organization. The associate superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Wilmington will head to the African country next month...
ROME -- Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the influential Italian churchman who shaped Catholic life in Italy for nearly two decades as both vicar of Rome and president of the Italian bishops' conference, died June 16 in Rome. He was 95.
Cardinal...
VATICAN CITY -- Reflecting on his weeklong trip to Spain, Pope Leo XIV said one of his clearest impressions came from the Canary Islands, where migration revealed both the challenges facing Europe and what he described as a Christian...
Pope Leo XIV said that although he is considering a final appeal to the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, the choice to splinter from the Catholic Church falls on them.
Speaking to journalists outside his residence in Castel Gandolfo...
A Catholic expert on artificial intelligence is commending recent calls by AI research firm Anthropic to rein in the technology amid a significant acceleration in its growth.
Anthropic -- which recently joined Pope Leo XIV in unveiling his new encyclical...