On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Iris ...

Pope Leo XIV processes into St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 3, 2025, to celebrate a memorial Mass for Pope Francis and all the cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

Rabbi Noam Marans of the American Jewish Committee, pictured in an undated photo, shared with OSV News Oct. 30, 2025. his thoughts on the 60th anniversary of "Nostra Aetate" -- and several practical ...

President Donald Trump said Oct. 31 he would place Nigeria on a religious freedom watch list in response to violence in that country perpetuated against predominantly Christia ...

A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second time in three weeks from bringing the Eucharist to those ...

The same day Pope Leo XIV proclaimed St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, he also named the British saint patron of the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome. In a doc ...

They are a trio of challenges and opportunities already stalking the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV: The persistence of poverty, the changing nature of work and the future uses of artificia ...

In a world filled with noise and constant motion, Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, Massachusetts, is extending a rare invitation ...

The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at ...

Jn 6:37-40 Forese had not been dead that long, not even five years. That's why Dante wondered how he'd made so much progress.

For the past 40 years, undocumented immigration has been fueled by a lack of legal avenues for immigrant workers to fill ...

When it comes to end of life directives, Catholics would do well to read about the current protocols surrounding organ donation and the recent bioethics discussion surrounding brain death. Father Anth ...