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Gina Christian is the National Reporter for OSV News.

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Then-Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, left, alongside then-Msgr. J. Gregory Kelly, right, after he was appointed a new auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Dallas in 2015. It was announced Dec. 20, 2024, that Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Kelly as bishop of Tyler, Texas. (OSV News file photo/Ron Heflin, The Texas Catholic)

Bishop J. Gregory Kelly named to Texas diocese after Bishop Strickland's removal

Gina Christian|Dec 20, 2024|3 Min Read

Msgr. Lawrence A. Hecker is seen in this undated booking photo provided by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office in New Orleans. Msgr. Hecker, who according to the Archdiocese of New Orleans has not had priestly faculties since 2002, pleaded guilty to first-degree rape, aggravated kidnapping and other charges in a case involving an unnamed teen victim from 1975-1976. He was sentenced to life in prison Dec. 18, 2024. (OSV News photo/Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office)

New Orleans priest gets life in prison for 1970s rape of Catholic student

Gina Christian|Dec 20, 2024|5 Min Read

A file photo shows spring flowers blooming outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The U.S. bishops designated the basilica as a special pilgrimage site for the 2025 Jubilee Year. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception named a Jubilee Year site

Gina Christian|Dec 19, 2024|3 Min Read

A file photo shows a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe as it is unloaded from a truck after a procession to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico. (OSV News/David Maung)

California bishops write letter of support for migrants amid mass deportation fears

Gina Christian and Kate Scanlon|Dec 12, 2024|4 Min Read

Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, poses for a booking photograph at the State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pa., Dec. 9, 2024. (OSV News/Pennsylvania Department of Corrections handout via Reuters)

Man suspected in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing came from prominent Catholic family

Gina Christian|Dec 10, 2024|3 Min Read

A drone view shows the Ummayad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar Assad, Dec. 8, 2024. (OSV News/Mahmoud Hassano, Reuters)

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With Assad's fall, Syria's papal nuncio prays for nation's reconciliation, new prosperity

Gina Christian|Dec 9, 2024|5 Min Read

A woman accompanied by a child holding a Hezbollah flag gives a victory sign from a car at the entrance of Beirut's southern suburbs Nov. 27, 2024, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect. A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah appeared to be holding as residents returned toward southern Lebanon, despite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese military that they stay away from certain areas. (OSV News photo/Thaier Al-Sudani, Reuters)

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Lebanese bishop in US sees 'profound hope' in Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

Gina Christian|Nov 27, 2024|3 Min Read

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors presents its pilot report on safeguarding at a Vatican news conference Oct. 29, 2024. From the left are: Sri Lankan Good Shepherd Sister Niluka Perera, a social worker and coordinator of Catholic Care for Children; Teresa Kettelkamp, adjunct secretary of the commission; Colombian Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, commission secretary; Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, commission president; Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, a Dutch lawyer; and Juan Carlos Cruz, a commission members and abuse survivor. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Survivor advocates call for universal 'zero tolerance' of clerical abuse

Gina Christian|Nov 18, 2024|3 Min Read

Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland, Calif., gives the homily at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Jan. 31, 2020. The Diocese of Oakland filed a plan for reorganization in bankruptcy court Nov. 8, 2024, to create and fund a trust for clerical sexual abuse survivors and allow the diocese to continue to operate financially. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Paul Haring)

Oakland Diocese files Chapter 11 plan to give more than $160 million to settle abuse claims

Gina Christian|Nov 11, 2024|4 Min Read

Vestments are seen in this undated photo. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn, CNS)

20 years of abuse settlements for US Catholic dioceses exceeds $5 billion total

Gina Christian|Nov 8, 2024|4 Min Read

A man casts his ballot at a polling station in Omaha, Neb., during the U.S. presidential election, on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024. Voters in Nebraska, Colorado, and Kentucky rejected school choice initiatives at the ballot box in the general election. (OSV News photo/Scott Morgan, Reuters)

Catholics lament voter rejection of school choice initiatives in 3 states

Gina Christian|Nov 6, 2024|3 Min Read

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks during a news conference at a Nov. 14, 2023, session of the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore. Archbishop Broglio issued a USCCB statement Nov. 6, 2024, calling for prayer and unity following the results of the presidential election. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

US bishops' conference president calls for prayer, unity following the 2024 election

Gina Christian|Nov 6, 2024|2 Min Read

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