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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- During a Jan. 29 plenary session at the 2023 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller...
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(OSV News) -- Massachusetts lawmakers walked back Feb. 2 a proposal to reduce sentence time for incarcerated individuals who donate their organs or bone...
Read More(OSV News) -- Before he died in 2015, media often asked Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago about his legacy. It was a question he had answered along...
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(OSV News) -- The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English...
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(OSV News) -- Joy, gratitude and a longing to be formed in the faith are among the takeaways from the latest stage in the North American phase of the world...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is "a modest but important step" to make the long-standing policy of preventing federal...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops affirmed its "united position" in opposition to taxpayer funding for abortion procedures,...
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ST. PAUL (OSV News) -- Gov. Tim Walz on Jan. 31 signed into law a bill passed by Minnesota lawmakers that places a right to abortion for any reason and...
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(OSV NEWS) -- With the national March for Life in the nation's capital marking the Roe v. Wade anniversary behind them, pro-life advocates are gearing...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In October 2022, the New England Journal of Medicine reported a statistic both shocking and grim: "Homicide is the leading cause...
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- A Catholic pro-life activist has been found not guilty of charges that he violated a federal law protecting access to abortion...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Efforts to help women and children thrive, across all stages of human life, need to be interpersonal and in collaboration with...
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) -- The Vatican decree elevating the Miraculous Medal Shrine in Philadelphia to the status of minor basilica brings "great joy"...
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DETROIT (OSV News) -- Father John McKenzie first noticed Andrew Jones III in the halls of the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak,...
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(OSV News) -- As Theodore McCarrick faces criminal charges for allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy, the disgraced former cardinal's legal defense...
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(OSV News) -- Embattled former priest and pro-life activist Frank Pavone is facing accusations of sexual misconduct that took place prior to his laicization...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The nation with the best Catholic Mass attendance in the world could be Nigeria according to a new study published by the Center...
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(OSV News) -- A new law passed swiftly by the Iowa Legislature on Jan. 24 gives more families the opportunity to choose between sending their children...
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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- Some 3,000 people packed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels here on the evening of Jan. 21 to pray for children lost to...
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MIAMI (OSV News) -- Divine intervention may be the only explanation for how two college teammates graduated, ventured off on different career paths miles...
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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- Local Chinese Catholics celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year at Chinatown's Catholic parish also prayed for the victims...
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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (OSV News) -- Less than 48 hours after 11 people were killed and nine more injured at a dance hall Jan. 21 in Monterey Park, California,...
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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (OSV News) -- During a visit to Florida's St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York encouraged South...
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(OSV News) -- "A faithful worshiper, he often prayed in the synagogues with his brother, Andrew. It was not at all uncommon to hear Simon praise Andrew's...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pro-life leaders explored new avenues to humanize politics post-Roe at the 24th annual Cardinal O'Connor Conference on Life on...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Tens of thousands of pro-life advocates descended upon the nation's capital for the 50th March for Life Jan. 20 -- the first national...
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(OSV News) -- Driving to Washington for a morning rally ahead of the 2023 March for Life, Pete and Tricia DeMaio did something unusual for a family road...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- With the Supreme Court this past June overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that asserted that abortion was a constitutional...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The pro-life movement has "much to celebrate" because Roe v. Wade "is no more," said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The pro-life movement should work to change hearts and minds on the issue of abortion by demonstrating "radical solidarity" with...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court revealed Jan. 19 that after a monthslong investigation by its marshal, it has yet to identify who leaked the draft...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Efforts to build a consistent culture of life in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade should seek to address what Pope Francis...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- While the nation's legal landscape regarding abortion has changed after the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's...
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(OSV News) -- Psalm 19 reveals that, day in and day out, "the heavens declare the glory of God." But every now and then -- or sometimes every 50,000 years...
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(OSV News) -- New guidance and policies on ministering to people experiencing gender dysphoria released Jan. 16 by the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, call...
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(OSV News) -- Michelle Duppong's family members get a lot of prayer requests, especially for healing from grave illnesses and dire prognoses, that ask...
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BUSHWICK, N.Y. (OSV News) -- An auxiliary bishop who fled his native Nicaragua after facing down death threats for criticizing the country’s totalitarian...
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(OSV News) -- Matt Olson is on a new path and it's one he never expected. The 26-year-old native of Isanti, Minnesota, said he's not letting a life-altering...
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(OSV News) -- When Adriana Vasquez was working in marriage ministry for the Archdiocese of New York two decades ago, she helped enrich the theology expressed...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Catholics "must act" for racial justice, starting with personal conversion, to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle and...
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(OSV News) -- The terrorism trial of Sayfullo Saipov, who is accused of fatally striking eight people with a truck in New York City in 2017, began Jan....
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. House of Representatives Jan. 11 passed two pro-life measures, however neither has a clear path through the U.S. Senate...
Read MoreMISHAWAKA, Ind. (OSV News) -- Almost everyone familiar with the life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knows the value that the civil rights leader...
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A federal judge has ruled against a Catholic-founded hospital in Maryland, contending that it discriminated in refusing to perform a hysterectomy on a...
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