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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Your voice is urgently needed. Over the past month, more than 11,000 postcards were presented to our state legislators expressing our opposition to physician-assisted suicide. Despite this effort, the Delaware House of Representatives passed...
Prolific author and Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton converted from "high" Anglicanism to Catholicism as an adult. Author of more than 100 books, he was integral in the conversion of his atheist friend C.S. Lewis of "The Lion, With and...
The pastor of a parish in Seneca, Kansas, was shot in his rectory and later died of his injuries at a local hospital April 3. In a message shared on social media, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in...
Q: Recently my cousin got engaged and is in the planning process of her wedding. She is a baptized Catholic and has received both first Communion and confirmation. Over time my cousin slowly fell away from the Faith. The...
NEWARK — Bailey Maloney had quite the day for the Ursuline softball team on April 3. The senior pitcher threw a no-hitter with 14 strikeouts, and at the plate she had multiple hits and runs batted in as the...
By Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, OSV News The season of Lent prepares us to renew our baptismal promises, which we will do on Easter Sunday. A good Lent should help us recommit ourselves to that seeking for holiness, which should...
Looking around at the evil and suffering we encounter on our screens, in our communities, in our families and even staring back at us in the mirror, it can be difficult to believe that Christ came 2,000 years ago...
OXFORD, England -- The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has urged renewed opposition to a draft law on assisted suicide, amid signs the measure could now fail in the face of mounting criticism. "As Catholics, we...
Two women religious were murdered March 31 by armed gangs in the city of Mirebalais, Haiti, as long-standing violence continues to further destabilize that nation. Sister Evanette Onezaire and Sister Jeanne Voltaire of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of...
CHICAGO -- The Archdiocese of Chicago filed a countersuit March 24 against seven alleged victims of clergy child sex abuse who either have pending settlements or have already received settlements in the millions of dollars. The lawsuit, provided to OSV...