OSV News) – Catholic clergy are calling for prayer and peace following U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran Feb. 28 that killed ...

As reports emerge regarding the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urgently called upon the United States, ...

The student-led march had been in the works for a few weeks, conceived originally as a protest, following the Jan. 8 appointment of Susan Ostermann, associate professor in Notre Dame’s Keough School ...

The U.S. bishops and a Catholic immigration advocacy group were among those who offered their support to a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

In a gesture to Pope Paul III, who published the papal bull “ Subliminus Deus ” prohibiting the enslavement of indigenous peoples, Michelangelo depicted in “The Last Judgement” a Black man and a white ...

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given March 1, 2026, at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers ...

Pope Leo spoke roughly 12 hours after the U.S. and Israel revealed that Iran’s supreme leader, 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali ...

As the first Lenten retreat of his pontificate drew to a close, Pope Leo XIV thanked Norwegian Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim for “a profound, spiritual experience” after which, the pope said, he ...

Iran has retaliated with several counterstrikes, targeting Israel and several U.S.-interest locations across a number of ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) – The spiritual leader of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis preached on the importance ...

Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on public display for the first extended public viewing in history, drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims ...

A lawsuit, CLINIC v. Rubio, was filed Feb. 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging ...