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Gina Christian is the National Reporter for OSV News.

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A still image taken from an undated drone video released Sept. 12, 2026, shows a destroyed building in Oleshky, the Kherson region of Russian-controlled Ukraine. (OSV News photo/34th Separate Marine Brigade "Borysfen" handout via Reuters)

From hospital, Pope Leo phones Putin to press for Ukraine ceasefire, aid

Gina Christian|Oct 16, 2026|3 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV smiles as he arrives at Rome's Gemelli Hospital Oct. 13, 2026, ahead of his surgery that afternoon to remove a lung nodule. (OSV News photo/Ciro De Luca, Reuters)

What Pope Leo’s lung nodule surgery involves, according to medical experts

Gina Christian and Junno Arocho Esteves|Oct 13, 2026|5 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass marking the start of the academic year at the Pontifical Universities in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Oct. 8, 2026. After the Angelus prayer on Oct. 11, he announced that he would undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Prayers pour in for Pope Leo XIV following lung surgery announcement

Gina Christian|Oct 11, 2026|4 Min Read

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Pope Leo XIV to undergo surgery to remove lung nodule weeks before South America trip

Junno Arocho Esteves and Gina Christian|Oct 11, 2026|3 Min Read

Amid assault scandal, Cornell Catholics offer prayer, pastoral care

Gina Christian|Oct 8, 2026|5 Min Read

U.S. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., poses for a photo at the Vatican Feb. 11, 2026. In a pastoral letter released Oct. 1, 2026, Archbishop Sample called for "mission renewal" across his archdiocese, urging personal holiness, a recommitted clergy, a focus on Catholic education and the efforts of lay faithful to foster a "culture of evangelization." (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Portland's Archbishop Sample calls for 'mission renewal' in pastoral letter

Gina Christian|Oct 6, 2026|6 Min Read

Father Francis J. "Father Rocky" Hoffman, Relevant Radio chairman and CEO and new president and rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, is pictured at the shrine in Champion, Wis., in this undated photo. (OSV News photo/Carlos Sierra, National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion)

Relevant Radio's 'Father Rocky' named rector of Wisconsin Marian shrine

Gina Christian|Oct 3, 2026|3 Min Read

A student works on an assignment on the first day of the 2026-27 academic year at St. Patrick School in Smithtown, N.Y., Sept. 3, 2026. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Catholic leaders praise proposed rules for Federal Scholarship Tax Credit

Gina Christian|Oct 2, 2026|3 Min Read

The official portrait of Blessed Fulton J. Sheen is revealed at his beatification Mass Sept. 24, 2026, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. (OSV News photo/Margaret Murray)

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen declared 'Blessed' at beatification Mass in St. Louis

Gina Christian|Sep 24, 2026|6 Min Read

The Engstrom family pauses for a photo in the exhibition hall at the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis Sept. 23, 2026. The healing of James Engstrom, who was born without a pulse on Sept. 16, 2010, and remained clinically dead for an hour before his heart began beating, led to a Church-approved miracle that helped advance the cause for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s beatification. (OSV News photo/Margaret Murray)

Faith

'A foretaste of heaven': Miracle baby's mom reflects ahead of Sheen beatification

Maria Wiering and Gina Christian|Sep 24, 2026|5 Min Read

A firefighter works at the site of one of the biggest Ukrainian poultry farms hit by a Russian air strike on Chornobaivka in Ukraine’s Kherson region in this handout picture released July 4, 2026. In the same region, thousands of Ukrainian civilians in the city of Oleshky are facing starvation amid a Russian blockade, the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations said in a Sept. 19 statement. (OSV News photo/Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kherson region, Handout via Reuters)

World

Ukrainian faith leaders plead for action as Russian blockade starves Oleshky

Gina Christian|Sep 22, 2026|3 Min Read

Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia el-Kassis, the Holy See's new permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, poses in an undated photo with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. At a conference sponsored by the U.N.'s Alliance of Civilizations Sept. 17, the archbishop said in an address, "Hate speech of any kind "contradicts the commandment to love one's neighbor, poisons public discourse, inflames division, and too often prepares the ground for violence and persecution. (OSV News photo/Eskinder Debebe, courtesy United Nations) A

Vatican envoy tells UN: Hate speech contradicts love of neighbor

Gina Christian|Sep 18, 2026|2 Min Read

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