Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral is pictured in this file photo. The Archdiocese of Chicago said it has paid out more than $400 million to abuse survivors, with the announcement coming on the heels of an abuse settlement announcement by a St. Paul, Minnesota-based attorney who has settled Chicago clergy abuse cases for more than 25 […]
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Amgen Irish Open at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sept. 13, 2026. (OSV News photo/Kylie Cooper, Reuters) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump backed Irish unification during a meeting Sept. 12 with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin, a move that drew praise from a U.S. Irish […]
The Vatican announced Sept. 15, 2026, that Pope Leo XIV appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael A. Saporito of Newark, N.J., as the new bishop of Metuchen, N.J. Bishop Saporito, 64, pictured in an undated photo, succeeds Metuchen’s former Bishop James F. Checchio, whom Pope Leo named archbishop of New Orleans last year. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese […]
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, delivers the homily during a Sept. 11, 2026, Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada) WASHINGTON — While overwhelming sorrow at the […]
Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski speaks at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park, Md., on July 28, 2026, during a Mass of Solidarity with the Haitian community and those impacted by changes to U.S. immigration policy and Temporary Protected Status. Participation in elections is a key component of faithful citizenship for U.S. Catholics, […]
A Carmelite Sister comforts a resident Aug. 21, 2026, at St. Patrick’s Residence in Naperville, Ill. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and the Chicago Province of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and an Illinois pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, […]
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 […]
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington is pictured March 14, 2026. (OSV News photo/Will Dunham, Reuters) The U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 8 declined a case from a New York Catholic woman seeking to send her son to kindergarten without receiving the vaccines the state requires to attend public school. In its rejection of the […]
Bishop Robert P. Boxie III, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, poses for a photo in Rome, Sept. 7, 2026. He was one of the 147 bishops from five continents attending a course at the Vatican for bishops ordained in the past year. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan) By Josephine Peterson, Catholic News Service (ROME) CNS […]
A cross made of steel from one of the fallen towers of the World Trade Center is seen at sunrise Sept. 11, 2021, at New York’s Breezy Point 9/11 Memorial on the day marking the 20th anniversary of the 2001, attacks. U.S. Catholic bishops are offering Masses, prayers and reflections as the nation marks the […]