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Father Melvin Díaz Aponte, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, and Carmen Alicia Rodríguez Echevarría, principal of the parish school, are pictured in an undated photo.They received the Catholic Extension Society's 2025-2026 Lumen Christi Award. For the 2026-2027 award, Chicago-based Catholic Extension has received 46 nominees from dioceses all over the U.S. (OSV News photo/Benny Bautista, Catholic Extension Society)

Prison chaplain, reservation deacon among California's Lumen Christi nominees

OSV News|Jul 9, 2026|3 Min Read

In this June 29, 2023, image, Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia inspect a memorial near Irpin, Ukraine, made of cars shelled by Russian troops as Ukrainian civilians attempted to flee the area in 2022. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)

World

Pastoral letter ties American independence to Ukraine's ongoing sacrifice

OSV News|Jul 8, 2026|4 Min Read

A man holding a Polish national flag with coat of arms lights a candle at the site of a mass burial ceremony of Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II in the former Polish village of Puznyky, in Ukraine's Ternopil region Sept. 6, 2025. In 2024, Ukraine granted Poland access to the sites in the western part of the country, once part of Poland, to carry out joint search and exhumation of the remains of Polish victims. (OSV News/Anastasiia Smolienko, Reuters)

World

Polish, Ukrainian cardinals urge 'disarmament of language' amid WWII history tensions

OSV News|Jul 1, 2026|6 Min Read

A young Karol Wojtyla -- the future pope, St. John Paul II -- is seen at right in an undated screenshot from the documentary "I Like to Watch the Sunrise." At left is his father, Karol Wojtyla Sr., an army officer who after the death of his wife dedicated his life to his two sons, Karol and Edmund. (OSV News photo/courtesy Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow)

Faith

The father behind St. Pope John Paul II

OSV News|Jun 18, 2026|6 Min Read

A woman holds the hand of her mother who is dying from cancer during her final hours at a palliative care hospital in Winnipeg, Canada, July 24, 2010. (OSV News photo/Shaun Best, Reuters)

Canadian bishops denounce 'world's largest euthanasia program' on 10th anniversary

OSV News|Jun 16, 2026|4 Min Read

A picture depicting the new martyrs is seen at the Sanctuary of St. John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, on June 6, 2026, during the beatification Mass for nine Polish Salesian priests killed in German Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The beatification ceremony highlighted not only the Salesians' martyrdom but also their lives as educators, pastors and mentors to young people. (OSV News photo/courtesy Malgorzata Latawiec)

World

Nine Polish Salesians killed in Nazi death camps are beatified in Kraków

OSV News|Jun 16, 2026|6 Min Read

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Faith

The Sacred Heart and parenthood: Love that walks outside us

OSV News|Jun 15, 2026|3 Min Read

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, concelebrates Mass as bishops consecrate the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the Basilica of Mary Queen of the Universe in Orlando, Fla., June 11, 2026, during their spring plenary assembly. On the same day, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a statement praising the U.S. bishops for consecrating U.S. to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

President Trump praises bishops' consecration of the US to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

OSV News|Jun 12, 2026|3 Min Read

A clergyman swings a censer near a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as U.S. Catholic bishops consecrate the country to the Sacred Heart at the Basilica of Mary Queen of the Universe in Orlando, Fla., June 11, 2026, during their spring plenary assembly. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

USCCB spring public meeting wraps with charter vote, consecration to Sacred Heart

OSV News|Jun 11, 2026|7 Min Read

People are pictured in a file photo lining up to register to receive food during a distribution through the Catholic Relief Services Safety Net Program in Goro Gutu, Ethiopia. The U.S. Department of State announced June 5, 2026, that a $240 million grant in humanitarian and disaster response assistance -- the first of a series of such grants -- will be made to CRS, the overseas relief and development arm of the U.S. Catholic Church. (OSV News photo/David Snyder, Catholic Relief Services)

US State Department awards CRS a disaster response assistance grant

OSV News|Jun 8, 2026|3 Min Read

An Adidas advertisement featuring Lionel Messi for the FIFA World Cup 2026 is displayed at the E-Central Los Angeles hotel May 28, 2026, ahead of June 11-July 19 soccer matches. Mandatory Credit: (OSV News photo/Kirby Lee-Imagn Images via Reuters)

US dioceses see World Cup as opportunity for pastoral outreach, global encounter

OSV News|Jun 1, 2026|5 Min Read

Boston Archbishop Richard G. Henning delivers the commencement address May 17, 2026, at his alma mater, St. John's University, at the Vincentian school's campus in the the Jamaica section of the New York borough of Queens. Archbishop Henning, who received an honorary doctorate of sacred theology at the ceremony, earned a bachelor's degree from St. John's in 1986 and a master's degree from the school in 1988. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Grads hear faith-filled words of encouragement, challenges to take into world beyond campus

OSV News|May 27, 2026|8 Min Read

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