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Gina Christian is the National Reporter for OSV News.

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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

Pope Leo XIV greets Silviu Vexler, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, during a ceremony honoring Blessed Iuliu Hossu in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican June 2, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

New Vatican document reaffirms 'Nostra Aetate,' urges interfaith dialogue

Gina Christian|Sep 17, 2026|5 Min Read

(OSV News photo/Dado Ruvic, Reuters)

US bishops form task force to guard human dignity amid AI's rapid rise

Gina Christian|Sep 16, 2026|4 Min Read

Chad Pecknold, associate professor of systematic theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, is pictured in a file photo. Pecknold, a prominent Catholic theologian, has taken a leave of absence for a position at the Department of Homeland Security, the agency confirmed Sept. 11, 2026. He has been named principal director of cultural outreach for DHS's Office for Partnership and Engagement. (OSV News photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)

CUA professor Chad Pecknold accepts DHS cultural outreach job

Gina Christian|Sep 14, 2026|4 Min Read

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stand guard, as ICE and federal agents secure the entrance to the Delaney Hall detention center while demonstrators gathered outside in Newark, New Jersey, May 29, 2026. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has provided a dispensation to Catholics who fear being targeted by immigration enforcement going to and from Sunday Mass regardless of their legal status. (OSV News photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters)

Indianapolis archbishop waives Mass obligation for those fearing ICE detention

Gina Christian|Sep 9, 2026|4 Min Read

Haitian-born Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old honors student at at Wright State University in Greene County, Ohio, died in an apparent suicide Aug. 31, 2026. He is pictured in an undated photo posted on Instagram. His father said that "everything changed" once his son was fitted with an ankle monitor by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement when deportation protections, known as TPS, ended for Haitians in June. (OSV News photo/@Pierre_d_bel_7/Instagram)

Archbishop Wenski laments student suicide as ICE policy triggers ‘death of despair’

Gina Christian|Sep 3, 2026|5 Min Read

New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, and Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Ky., speaks during a break at a Nov. 15, 2023, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. "Let us foster an economy that values the God given dignity of each person," said Archbishop Fabre, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in a statement released ahead of Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2026. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Archbishop Fabre: Labor Day highlights AI's impact on workers' dignity

Gina Christian|Sep 1, 2026|4 Min Read

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