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(OSV News) -- A U.S. archbishop has denounced the Biden administration's decision to resume deportations of Haitian migrants, given the rampant violence...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis met briefly with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems -- the U.S. digital communications conglomerate -- after Robbins...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Before converting to Catholicism, Michael Baggot took his questions about faith and the church to the first place many people go...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A review by the Department of Justice's watchdog found "no evidence" of religious bias in the creation of a leaked and since-retracted...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Candidates to the priesthood must integrate their spiritual, intellectual and community lives so they become pastors who can respond...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Peace can spread and grow from "small seeds" like including someone who is left out of an activity, showing concern for someone who...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Final regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will grant workers protections for time off and other job accommodations...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court on April 22 heard a case concerning the constitutionality of local laws that ban public camping and their impact...
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BRAINTREE -- Father Eric Cadin couldn't believe that nobody honked their horns. On the evening of April 13, he and over 500 others marched in a eucharistic...
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BRAINTREE -- "I just want to die." Dr. Karen O'Brien, co-director of the Palliative Care Inpatient Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, hears...
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NEEDHAM -- It's no secret that middle school is a time of great anxiety. Students' emotions are more intense than they have ever been, so it's...
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Appropriate on St. Patrick's Day weekend, the Mary Ann Brett Food Pantry held its annual fundraiser -- in fact, it was the 15th anniversary of the...
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This is the ninth article in a series profiling the 11 men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the...
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WENHAM -- Gordon College, a Christian college located in Wenham, recently hosted a Faith Leader workshop for New England pastors and ministry leaders....
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As I mentioned in my previous post, last week, we were in the midst of our annual pilgrimage and meeting of the Papal Foundation in Rome. This is the largest...
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A proud veteran of the United States Navy Chaplain Corps in which he served for almost three decades, Father John W. McElroy died in Palm Coast, Florida,...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – "We're in the Nazi killing business, and cousin, business is a-boomin'" blithely declares Brad Pitt's character, U.S. Army officer...
Read MoreNEW YORK (OSV News) – Moviegoers tempted by a title like "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" (Warner Bros.) are presumably not in search of Shakespearian...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics...
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(OSV News) -- A new AI priest, launched by a Catholic teaching apostolate to answer questions about the faith, has been "laicized" after sparking more...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) -- A portion of a new interview with Pope Francis will air tonight on the "CBS Evening News" at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, according to a release...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) -- Authorities in the city of León, Nicaragua, chose an unusual place for setting up a boxing ring and staging...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the marks of a righteous individual, the virtues of faith, hope...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In 2022, pro-life activist Lauren Handy told a reporter, "I feel like the die has been cast for me. I've accepted the reality...
Read MoreBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) -- An Argentine priest who works with the country's poorest and most vulnerable people is hopeful that Pope Francis...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group...
Read More(OSV News) -- As Haiti's capital spirals into lawlessness, a longtime U.S. missionary has been forced to evacuate -- while Haitian Catholics in the U.S....
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Jesus called himself the "good shepherd," he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important...
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ROME (CNS) -- The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more "auto-referential" and withdraw itself from the international...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The 2024 edition of the Vatican yearbook has inserted "Patriarch of the West" as one of the historical titles of the pope. In 2006,...
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Meghan Schrader is an instructor and mentor at the E4Texas (Texas Center for Disability Studies) program at the University of Texas at Austin and is on...
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BOSTON -- Shadi Lopez discovered her "calling" while studying in Catholic schools. The daughter of immigrants from El Salvador, Lopez graduated from East...
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QUINCY -- Gabe Bresnahan was 14 years old when he first saw a child being born. He was in the community of St. Rock, Haiti, where he and his father, Dr....
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Ryan, a Dame of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, was one of 151 people who received Cheverus Awards in 2023. The annual archdiocesan awards...
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This is the eighth article in a series profiling the 11 men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the...
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"I believe I am fortunate to call myself a student at Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School. The opportunities our school has afforded me are almost beyond...
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Last Friday, I was pleased to attend a luncheon at the Harvard Club celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ray Flynn's election as mayor of Boston. I...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1877 ballet "Swan Lake" had very negative implications for Soviet leaders since the broadcasting...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Toward the end of "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" (Columbia), the fifth film in a supernatural comedy franchise that dates back...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) -- The psychological and ethical complexities of front-line journalism are explored in depth in the dystopian drama "Civil War" (A24)....
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CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Ejercitar la virtud de la templanza no es una receta para una vida aburrida, dijo el Papa Francisco, sino que es el secreto...
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(OSV News) -- Como era habitual, el inmigrante salvadoreño Miguel Luna salió de su casa el lunes 25 de marzo de 2024 a las 6:30 p.m. para realizar...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture. At...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals continued their discussions about the role of women in the church, listening...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Supreme Court temporarily allowed Idaho April 15 to enforce a ban on certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As the White House responds to Iran's attack against Israel, Catholic experts said U.S. officials should seek to prevent further...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- En el marco de la Conferencia de Inmigración "Respondiendo a las Realidades Cambiantes en la Frontera de los Estados Unidos...
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CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (OSV News) -- Eliana Polo, una migrante venezolana, intentó llegar a la frontera con Estados Unidos a bordo de un tren de carga...
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CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Los cristianos deben compartir su fe en Jesús resucitado, dijo el Papa Francisco. También deben hablar de las buenas...
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(OSV News) -- Legislation in New York state would expand the state's criteria for a hate crime to include trespassing on houses of worship. The New York...
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NEWARK, N.J. (OSV News) -- After an early morning fire April 4 reportedly set by a resident damaged the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Lake Church in...
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- Catholic bioethicists are sounding the alarm about a critical lack of agreement on what constitutes brain death; and the implications...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican Secretariat of State sent a formal statement to the French Embassy to the Holy See reaffirming that Pope Francis had...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The morning after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel, Pope Francis pleaded with nations to avoid a further escalation...
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(OSV News) -- A new study of U.S. Catholics suggests that Mass attendance and political affiliation are associated with their views of Pope Francis and...
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(OSV News) -- A landmark report published April 10 in the United Kingdom said children had been "let down" by a lack of research on the use of puberty...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Today's "growing culture of indifference and individualism" must be countered with prayer and adoration, which inspires solidarity...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The wounds of Christ's passion and death and the stigmata given to some Christians over the centuries are reminders of "the pain...
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MEXICO CITY (OSV News) -- In an endless cycle of violence, the bishop of Orizaba, traveling with a group of priests, suffered an assault on a highway in...
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BRAINTREE -- For Father Bob Connors, the traffic was awful, but it was worth it. On April 8, Father Connors, episcopal vicar of the Archdiocese of Boston's...
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BOSTON -- For Justin Solis, being confirmed in the Catholic Church was "a journey of self-discovery" that began when he was working on a farm on Long Island. Solis,...
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BOSTON -- At first glance, St. John School, located in the heart of Boston's North End, looks like any other historic Catholic school. The school...
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FOXBOROUGH -- As millions of people were viewing the solar eclipse that stretched across the U.S. on April 8, Father Ed Riley thought of "the beauty of...
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This is the seventh article in a series profiling the 11 men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the...
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On Holy Thursday, I was visited by Jennifer Hooper, the incoming head of the Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. She will begin her new role...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Can an aristocratic lifestyle and a secret narcotics business mix? According to both his eponymous 2020 film and its current...
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(OSV News) -- On the first day of filming for "Irena's Vow" (Quiver), Sophie Nélisse had to witness a mass hanging. The Canadian actor, 24, has been...
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Rosemary's baby gets some competition in "The First Omen" (20th Century), director and co-writer Arkasha Stevenson's prequel...
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(OSV News) -- Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's office announced April 5 that among more than 100 pieces of legislation considered by the Republican governor,...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- A large congregation attended a prayer service and vigil April 8 at Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Church...
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