The human longing for love is not a sign of weakness but demonstrates that no one is completely self-sufficient and that salvation comes from letting oneself be loved and assiste ...

Attacks on the Catholic Church in Nicaragua have fallen in 2025, but a report on church persecution in the Central American county attributes the decline to few priests and religious rep ...

Pope Leo XIV turns 70 on Sept. 14, and OSV News is celebrating by gathering a host of prayers into a very special ...

It's been more than seven years since Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt became a household name virtually overnight. Then -- five months shy of turning 99 -- Sister Jean captured the hearts o ...

Pope Leo XIV publicly called on the leaders of Sudan's warring factions to negotiate an end to the violence and to ensure aid can reach desperate civilians. A day after sending ...

Q: Does the church ever use the word "divorce," or in every case is it always an "annulment?" Didn't Jesus allow for a spouse, in the case of a cheating spouse, to be granted a divorce, even calling ...

Lk 14:25-33 A sabbath dinner, Jesus is at the home of a Pharisee. Jesus heals a man, a scandalous miracle on the sabbath. He jus ...

St. Paul certainly could not boast about his conversion. He didn't read his way into the Church. He wasn't compelled by the witness of charity. He was knocked off his proverbial horse on the w ...

The start of every new semester is packed with activities that always manage to take me by surprise, even though they happen every term. These are the days to fine-tune my syllabus, adjust to a new cl ...

Law enforcement officials arrested an Alabama man after he allegedly made criminal threats against an Orange County, California, church, and a cache of ammunition and body armor was foun ...

Twelve years after ending two terms as prior general of the Augustinian order, Pope Leo XIV encouraged his confreres in the order to pray to the Holy Spirit for the gifts of listening, b ...

Indeed, "during the leisure hours of vacation occasions for reading are plentiful," mused Pope Pius XII in a discourse on the ...