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Peter Jesserer Smith is the National News & Features Editor for OSV News.

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Boxes of mifepristone under the label Mifeprex are seen April 9, 2024, at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Ill. The U.S. Catholic bishops are getting ready a nationwide call to prayer and action -- which will last from the campaign's official launch Aug. 18 through the end of October, Respect Life Month -- to mobilize Catholics to address the rising abortion rate. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, via Reuters)

US bishops launch nationwide campaign against rising abortion pill use

Peter Jesserer Smith|Aug 5, 2026|4 Min Read

Deacon Brian Wehrle, center, participates in a procession at the conclusion of a special Mass celebrated according to the Divine Worship: The Missal at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City Jan. 11, 2026, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. The missal, approved by Pope Francis in 2015, provides the form of Mass used in the personal ordinariates established under Pope Benedict XVI to provide a permanent home for the Anglican patrimony in the Catholic Church and reflects that liturgical tradition. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

World

Vatican affirms permanent place of 'Anglican heritage' in the Catholic Church

Peter Jesserer Smith|Mar 26, 2026|6 Min Read

Pro-life advocates take part in he 53rd annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 23, 2026. (OSV News photo/Aaron Schwartz, Reuters)

March for Life rallies thousands to build culture of life as political cracks emerge

Peter Jesserer Smith|Jan 23, 2026|8 Min Read

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Jan. 23, 2025. Trump signed an executive order Feb. 19, to develop policy recommendations to expand access to and affordability of in vitro fertilization. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)

Trump's IVF order fuels mass destruction of human embryos, not birth rate

Kimberley Heatherington and Peter Jesserer Smith|Feb 19, 2025|8 Min Read

Gomez

National congress sends forth Catholics to ignite new Pentecost as Eucharistic missionaries

Peter Jesserer Smith|Jul 22, 2024|8 Min Read

USCCB

USCCB confirms layoffs, reorganization of Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development

Gina Christian and Peter Jesserer Smith|Jun 26, 2024|6 Min Read

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop-designate David Waller as the next ordinary -- and the first bishop -- of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a kind of diocese for Catholics of the Anglican tradition in the U.K. His April 29, 2024, appointment follows the Holy Father's acceptance of the resignation submitted by Msgr. Keith Newton, the retiring priest-ordinary and former Anglican bishop, who led the ordinariate since its inception in 2011. (OSV News photo/courtesy Bishops' Conference of England and Wales)

World

Pope Francis appoints first Catholic bishop with Anglican heritage for UK ordinariate

Jonathan Luxmoore and Peter Jesserer Smith|Apr 30, 2024|7 Min Read

March for Life

Amid cold and snow, national March for Life pledges solidarity with moms and children

Peter Jesserer Smith|Jan 20, 2024|7 Min Read

Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond, Va., applauds during a Nov. 14, 2023, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (OSV News/Bob Roller)

First day of US bishops conference: Synodality and a disagreement on the US church

Peter Jesserer Smith|Nov 15, 2023|7 Min Read

USCCB

U.S. bishops advance pastoral initiatives to strengthen church amid discussions on Eucharist, priesthood, synodality

Peter Jesserer Smith and Kate Scanlon|Jun 17, 2023|6 Min Read

Benedict

U.S. bishops call Catholics to unite in mourning the death of retired pope

Julie Asher and Peter Jesserer Smith|Jan 2, 2023|8 Min Read

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