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A man receives a blessing during a Mass Nov. 1, 2025, celebrated outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill. Leaders of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership said that with a judge's order May 15, 2026, some of their members are now allowed into the Broadview ICE facility to minister to detainees daily. (OSV News photo/Leah Millis, Reuters)

Daily pastoral visits resume at ICE facility near Chicago after judge's order

Simone Orendain|May 20, 2026|4 Min Read

Retired Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry sits next to a portrait of the first African American priest of the U.S., Father Augustus (Augustine) Tolton, during the announcement April 29, 2026, on the shrine to the priest planned for St. Boniface Church in Quincy, Ill. (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Springfield)

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National shrine planned to honor Venerable Augustus Tolton in western Illinois

Simone Orendain|May 5, 2026|5 Min Read

Peter Breen, executive vice president and head of litigation at the Chicago-based Thomas More Society speaks at the Illinois Capitol in Springfield, Ill., during the Illinois Pro-Life March on March 19, 2026. A federal appellate court in Chicago heard oral arguments April 10 in a case that challenges an Illinois conscientious objectors law that would compel physicians and pregnancy centers to refer patients who ask, to abortion providers. (OSV News photo/Simone Orendain)

Court hears lawsuit on Illinois law mandating pro-life doctors, centers give abortion referrals

Simone Orendain|Apr 15, 2026|3 Min Read

Michael Okinczyc-Cruz, executive director of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, talks to Claretian Father Paul Keller, left, and Jesuit Father David Inczauskis after the two priests completed a Holy Thursday visit to the Broadview ICE processing facility in Illinois to minister to 14 people without proper authorization to be in the U.S. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership)

Priests: ICE detainees see Chicago group's Easter Triduum visits as sign of 'humanity'

Simone Orendain|Apr 7, 2026|4 Min Read

This is a file photo of the exterior of the California State Capitol in Sacramento. In a March 30, 2026, order, U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez in San Diego awarded more than $4.5 million in attorney’s fees to the Thomas More Society as compensation for fighting California's gender secrecy policies that hide from parents how their children express gender identity in public school. (OSV News photo/Max Whittaker, Reuters)

Thomas More Society is awarded $4.5 million in attorney fees in California gender secrecy case

Simone Orendain|Apr 1, 2026|4 Min Read

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a news briefing at the White House in Washington March 25, 2026, near photos of Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman. Catholics in Chicago have expressed sympathy and sorrow over the loss of Gorman, who was shot and killed March 19 near the school campus, an act of violence that also inflamed the immigration debate. (OSV News photo/Kylie Cooper, Reuters)

Catholics express grief, warn of politicizing immigration issue in murder of Loyola student

Simone Orendain|Mar 30, 2026|6 Min Read

Kermit Gosnell is shown in a courtroom artist sketch during his sentencing at Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia May 15, 2013. Gosnell, the former Philadelphia abortionist convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal killings of three infants born alive during illegal late-term abortions at his notorious "house of horrors" clinic, died in prison March 1, 2026, at age 85. (OSV News photo/Reuters)

'House of horrors' abortionist dies in prison; pro-life advocates call for stronger protections

Simone Orendain|Mar 23, 2026|4 Min Read

Liam Conejo Ramos, right, and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and then taken to a detention center in Texas, sit on the stairs back at their home after a judge ordered their release, in Columbia Heights, Minn., in this picture obtained from social media Feb. 1, 2026. (OSV News photo/Joaquin Castro via BlueSky, via Reuters)

Catholic immigrant advocates call for humane approach as report finds child ICE detentions up 600%

Simone Orendain|Feb 5, 2026|6 Min Read

Jen Fulwiler, a standup comic, bestselling author and mother of six, is pictured in an undated publicity photo. Fulwiler recently announced that she had canceled her upcoming national tour after receiving the news that her teenage daughter has brain cancer. (OSV News photo/Tigerman Management)

Catholic stand-up comedian halts tour after daughter's cancer diagnosis

Simone Orendain|Oct 16, 2025|2 Min Read

A sex trafficking survivor speaks during a human trafficking conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington in this file photo. Catholics have lauded California Gov. Gavin Newsom's July 30 signing of a state law that makes it a felony to procure sex from a 16- or 17-year-old minor in California. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Catholics hail new California law to protect older teens from sex trafficking

Simone Orendain|Aug 11, 2025|4 Min Read

Demonstrators march following U.S attack on Iran's nuclear sites and against Iran-Israel conflict, at Times Square in New York City, U.S. June 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Caitlin Ochs, Reuters)

80 years after 'Trinity,' Catholic-hosted gathering calls to abolish nuclear weapons

Simone Orendain|Jul 14, 2025|6 Min Read

A Planned Parenthood facility in Washington is seen in this file photo. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Judge blocks, for now, Planned Parenthood defunding provision backed by bishops

Simone Orendain|Jul 8, 2025|4 Min Read

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