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Can I receive Communion even if I didn't attend the whole Mass?

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What was 9/11 for?

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Msgr. Roger Landry takes leave from Pontifical Missions Societies amid misconduct investigation

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As Pope Leo marks birthday, more positive views of US Catholics may be on horizon, says scholar

Sep. 14 2026
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(OSV News) -- As the first U.S.-born pope marked his birthday, a Catholic scholar told OSV News he sees a potential shift toward more positive views of...

'Remarkable victory': Life advocates welcome defeat of assisted suicide bill in England and Wales

Sep. 14 2026
SIMON CALDWELL, OSV NEWS

LIVERPOOL, England (OSV News) -- The Catholic Church in England and Wales has welcomed the defeat of a bill to legalize assisted suicide. The Terminally...

2 decades after Regensburg, Church leaders say Pope Benedict's speech was misinterpreted but prophetic

Sep. 14 2026
JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Of all the discourses he delivered in his nearly eight-year pontificate -- with the exception of his 2013 resignation -- Pope Benedict XVI's...

Judge shields more Catholic health providers as Illinois assisted suicide law takes effect

Sep. 14 2026
KATE SCANLON, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- A federal judge on Sept. 11 temporarily blocked Illinois from enforcing the state's physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians...

Bishop Barron's new film explores beauty of France's gothic cathedrals ahead of pope's visit

Sep. 14 2026
KATIE YODER, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- A new documentary from Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, promises to take viewers on a journey through the gothic cathedrals...

Msgr. Roger Landry takes leave from Pontifical Missions Societies amid misconduct investigation

Sep. 11 2026
GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Msgr. Roger J. Landry has taken a temporary leave from his position as director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA, following allegations...

Boston Catholics recall grief, hope, unity after 9/11 attacks

Sep. 11 2026
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BRAINTREE -- Colleen Donohoe will never forget the smell. "I can't explain it," she said. "Still chokes me up. It was the smell of death, the smell...

New school year marks milestone anniversary at St. Peter School, Cambridge

Sep. 11 2026
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

CAMBRIDGE -- As classes began at Catholic schools around Labor Day, the school community at St. Peter School in Cambridge had something extra special to...

Planning Office, St. Francis House dedicate affordable development in downtown Boston

Sep. 11 2026
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BOSTON -- Sept. 8 was Brianna's first time speaking in front of a crowd of more than 100 people. She was so nervous, but she persisted. It was her...

New Bedford pastor urges prayers for man who attacked him

Sep. 9 2026
GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- A Massachusetts priest is urging prayers for a man who attacked him during a parish Holy Hour. Father Christopher Peschel, pastor of Our...

Cathedral talk explores history, future of parish music

Sep. 4 2026
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- Richard Clark was three days old when Pope St. Paul VI promulgated the Novus Ordo Mass in 1969. "How old is the Novus Ordo?" joked Clark, director...

Salem parish to mark 200 years of Catholicism on North Shore

Sep. 4 2026
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BRAINTREE -- The very existence of someone like Father John Thayer was a scandal in New England in the early days of the U.S. Father Thayer, a former...

Cómo el arzobispo Sheen encarnó las siete virtudes

Sep. 14 2026
POR MICHAEL R. HEINLEIN, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Con su beatificación nuevamente en marcha, el arzobispo Fulton J. Sheen será recordado en la Iglesia por razones que van mucho...

El arzobispo de Indianápolis concede una dispensa de la obligación de asistir a Misa ante el temor a ser detenidos por ICE

Sep. 11 2026
POR GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV NEWS

SV News) -- El arzobispo Charles C. Thompson, de Indianápolis, ha concedido una dispensa temporal de la Misa dominical y de los días de precepto...

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