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(OSV News) -- Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed two bills into law March 22 that impact minors who identify as transgender, with one of the bills banning some...
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(OSV News) -- A lecture series on "reproductive justice" at the University of Notre Dame is advancing "activist propaganda" rather than "conducting a neutral...
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(OSV News) -- There is no shortage these days of proposed state and federal government legislation directed at both safety and liability in a digital environment...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A U.S. House hearing March 22 examined what it called Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's anti-Catholic persecution and called...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Amid society's push for medical intervention to resolve gender "discordance," there is a strong need for "charitable, substantive...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- A still-pending ruling by a federal judge in Texas could pull an abortion drug from the market across the United States. A lawsuit...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Surgical, chemical or other interventions that aim "to exchange" a person's "sex characteristics" for those of the opposite sex...
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (OSV News) -- Mercy Sister Rosemary Connelly, former executive director of Misericordia and lifelong advocate for individuals with developmental...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Joe Biden announced March 14 he would sign an executive order aiming to increase the number of background checks on...
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(OSV News) -- Claire Guernsey was eager to share her deeply held faith with the restless audience of Irish schoolkids. The students, however, didn't share...
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ARBUTUS, Md. (OSV News) -- The canonization cause of Mother Mary Lange, founder of the world's first sustained women's religious community for Black women,...
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. (OSV News) -- The Diocese of Santa Rosa filed for bankruptcy March 13, days after its bishop finally concluded the decision was necessary...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- U.S. Catholics should urge their lawmakers to continue to help the people of Ukraine fend off Russia's invasion of their country,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Francis has brought a fresh perspective to established Catholic teaching, panelists said March 13 at an event hosted by Georgetown...
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(OSV News) -- A new study cites trusted relationships with parish priests as a deciding factor in cultivating vocations and reducing the priest-to-parishioner...
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (OSV News) -- As he congratulated Pope Francis on his 10th anniversary as spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, Supreme Knight Patrick...
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UNITED NATIONS (OSV News) -- Nicaragua's assaults on Catholic and other educational institutions, its stripping political opponents of citizenship, and...
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BOSTON (OSV News) -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley of Boston said March 7 he is grateful for Pope Francis' "faith and confidence in my assistance" as a member...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (OSV News) -- "Are you OK denying God? One of his disciples did and that will be forever part of his testimony. Is that what you want in...
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WILMINGTON, Del. (OSV News) -- The Delaware General Assembly is taking aim at a basic tenet of the Catholic Church and wants to break the seal of confession...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- With his fingers almost seeming to melt into the organ keys as he performed one of Bach's most famous Passion chorales, Cameron...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Tom Lyman, director of Family Rosary, hopes that especially during Lent -- which calls Catholics to commit more time to the Lord...
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(OSV News) -- The Diocese of Albany, New York, has placed a hold on parish celebrations of Mass with the 1962 Roman Missal, the older usage of the Roman...
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(OSV News) -- West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey defended a state law restricting abortion in most circumstances from a legal challenge brought...
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(OSV News) -- Among Catholics, the sacrament of matrimony is in freefall. Over 50 years between 1969 and 2019, Catholic marriages declined 69% even as...
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (OSV News) -- The dark clouds of a weather system of historic proportions added to the heaviness already felt by the thousands at the 2023...
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(OSV News) -- This Lent, Jonathan Roumie has a full plate at work -- and an empty one at home, he told OSV News, thanks to some "heavy fasting" he plans...
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DEDHAM, Mass. (OSV NEWS) -- Prosecutors are challenging the medical report claiming former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial...
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