(OSV News) – The Vatican press office confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has no plans to visit the United States this year. “The pope will not be going to the United States in 2026,” Vatican spokesman Matteo ...

Celebrating the shared gifts of faith between Catholics in Africa and the United States, a Mass for Solidarity with the ...

In addition to providing key funding for vocations, seminary education and clergy and religious support; the annual appeal also supports Catholic education and catechesis; chaplains for campus ...

(OSV News) – Amid severe cuts in U.S. foreign aid, Catholic bishops an ocean apart are advocating for deeper bonds between ...

But we are stricken by serious social and cultural sickness as well, which manifests itself in many ways and has led to ...

(OSV News) – Nearly four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, intensified Russian ...

Spicer reiterated the bishops’ call for “humane, community-based alternatives” to family detention following the recent release of a 5-year-old from Minnesota from a Texas family detention facility ...

The profile urged the faithful to get to know the 58-year-old man appointed by Pope Leo XIV to lead 2.5 million Catholics as the new shepherd of the Archdiocese of New York, succeeding Cardinal ...

NEW YORK (OSV News) – A day before his installation as the 11th archbishop of New York, Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks gathered with the press in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a place known as “America's ...

NEW YORK (OSV News) – The world “always has and always will need a missionary Church,” said Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks in his ...

Born March 4, 1954, O’Hara attended Catholic schools in Toronto through eighth grade before enrolling in a public high school. “They put on musicals,” she remembered. “I went to see ‘The Music Man’ ...

USCIRF, an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that monitors religious freedom around the globe, pointed to a rise in authoritarianism around the globe as a key threat to the ...