May. 16 2024
MARIA WIERING, OSV NEWS
(OSV News) -- In 1776, Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan missionary, dedicated a small mission church in San Francisco to St. Francis Assisi....
May. 16 2024
CAROLINE DE SURY, OSV NEWS
PARIS (OSV News) -- The cross over Notre Dame's choir and the eight bronze bells in the north tower can now be reinstalled in their rightful place in the...
May. 16 2024
DAVE HRBACEK, OSV NEWS
COONS RAPIDS, Minn. (OSV News) -- No mom would ever want to spend Mother's Day like this: in a hospital room with a 7-year-old son paralyzed from the waist...
May. 16 2024
CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis, who was ordained to the priesthood 54 years ago, encouraged senior priests in the Diocese of Rome to be "witnesses of memory,"...
May. 16 2024
CAROL GLATZ, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While it is easy for people to love what is good and beautiful or to be generous and heroic for an ideal, Pope Francis said Christian...
May. 16 2024
JEAN PARIETTI, OSV NEWS
SEATTLE (OSV News) -- Apparitions, images of the Blessed Mother inspire devotions in our cultural communities. Honoring the Virgin Mary and seeking her...