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Vatican

New Vatican document 'Venite ad Me' tackles crisis in passing on the faith

The 25,000-word text from the doctrine office says cultural change, weaker family life and digital technology are straining the transmission of Catholicism across generations.

Courtney Mares|Oct 22, 2026|4 Min Read

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Vatican

Pope Leo to young Catholics: World Youth Day is a pilgrimage, not a trip

Junno Arocho Esteves|Oct 22, 2026|2 Min Read

Archbishop Gomez prays before tilma fragment in LA Cathedral.

LA Catholics

Archbishop Gomez pens pastoral letter ahead of 500th Guadalupe anniversary

Pablo Kay|Oct 22, 2026|5 Min Read

Newly consecrated Society of St. Pius X Bishop Michael Goldade, an American, is seen kissing the ring of Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta during an SSPX liturgical celebration July 1, 2026, in Écône, Switzerland. The two bishops, along with with Bishop Bernard Fellay of SSPX and three other newly consecrated bishops were excommunicated by the Vatican July 2, as the consecration lacked the mandate of the pope and was decreed to be schismatic. (OSV News photo/CPP)

Vatican

Society of St. Pius X files Vatican appeal against schism decree

Walter Sanchez Silva|Jul 13, 2026|3 Min Read

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., attends a news briefing in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 18, 2024, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine. Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, died July 11 after a "brief and sudden illness," his office said. A day later the District of Columbia's medical examiner said his unexpected death was caused by a heart issue. He was 71. (OSV News photo/Gleb Garanich/, Reuters)

Nation

Pro-life groups hail Lindsey Graham as steadfast champion for the unborn

EWTN News|Jul 13, 2026|3 Min Read

A statue of the risen Christ is pictured on the University of Detroit Mercy's McNichols campus in this undated photo. Starting in 2028, the Society of Jesus in the United States and Canada will combine its five novitiate programs in North America into two, with one of the new novitiates to be located at the University of Detroit Mercy's Lansing-Reilly Hall, the Jesuits' current residence on the campus. The other novitiate will be based in Culver City, California. (OSV News photo/Valaurian Waller, Detroit Catholic)

Nation

Jesuits to consolidate five novitiates into two sites starting in 2028

Dan Meloy|Jul 13, 2026|5 Min Read

Pope Leo greets faithful after the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Liberta in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Italy, July 12, 2026. (OSV News photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)

Vatican

Pope Leo draws crowds to Castel Gandolfo for first summer Angelus

Paulina Guzik|Jul 12, 2026|5 Min Read

A file photo shows staff and volunteers organize food in the basement of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York's community center in the South Bronx. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Nation

US bishops push Senate to bolster SNAP, rural aid in farm bill draft

Tyler Arnold|Jul 10, 2026|4 Min Read

Ann Widdecombe at Nightingale House, London, 2009. (Brian Minkoff/London Pixels via Wikimedia Commons)

World

Murder probe launched into death of British Catholic politician Ann Widdecombe

Daniel Payne|Jul 10, 2026|3 Min Read

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump receives the report from his Religious Liberty Commission in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington June 26, 2026. Ahead of a July 15 Senate hearing to confirm Blanche as head of the DOJ, a national pro-life group asked Blanche to side with Louisiana in its challenge to a federal policy permitting mifepristone, sometimes called the abortion pill, to be dispensed through the mail. (OSV News photo/Ken Cedeno, Reuters)

Life & Family

Pro-life group urges Blanche to back states' mifepristone challenge

Kate Scanlon|Jul 9, 2026|4 Min Read

Members of the Keith and Valori Radonis family are pictured in front of St Dominic Academy in Portland, Maine, in an undated photo. A federal judge ruled Aug. 8, 2024, that Catholic schools can be excluded from Maine's tuition grant program. On June 13, 2023, the Radonis family and St. Dominic School filed a federal lawsuit suit challenging the exclusion of faith-based schools from a state tuition assistance program. (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Portland, Maine)

Nation

Court: Publicly funded Maine religious schools must follow gender, sexuality rules

Daniel Payne|Jul 9, 2026|3 Min Read

The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, is pictured Nov. 4, 2019. In Québec, Bill 21, officially known as "An Act Respecting the Laicity of the State," prohibits public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols at work. Passed by the Québec National Assembly June 16, 2019, it faced a challenge on religious liberty grounds before the Supreme Court in a four-day hearing in March 2026. A ruling is not expected until later in the year or early 2027. (OSV News photo/Chris Helgren, Reuters)

World

Bill 21 showdown: Canada's Supreme Court weighs religious symbols ban

Kimberley Heatherington|Jul 9, 2026|7 Min Read

Father Melvin Díaz Aponte, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, and Carmen Alicia Rodríguez Echevarría, principal of the parish school, are pictured in an undated photo.They received the Catholic Extension Society's 2025-2026 Lumen Christi Award. For the 2026-2027 award, Chicago-based Catholic Extension has received 46 nominees from dioceses all over the U.S. (OSV News photo/Benny Bautista, Catholic Extension Society)

California

Prison chaplain, reservation deacon among California's Lumen Christi nominees

OSV News|Jul 9, 2026|3 Min Read

Life & Family

Report: America nearing 'demographic dead end' as birth rates sink

EWTN News|Jul 9, 2026|3 Min Read

Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala is seated in the cathedra, or bishop's chair, during his installation as the 10th bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., July 2, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Wheeling. Archbishop Gabriele G. Caccia, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., left, Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, right, and clergy look on, applauding. (OSV News photo/Colleen Rowan, The Catholic Spirit)

Nation

Three US bishop installations in Washington Archdiocese, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

Daniel Payne|Jul 8, 2026|3 Min Read