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 […]
Peter Kilpatrick, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington, left, joins students helping new students move into their residence halls Aug. 27, 2026. (OSV News photo/Patrick Ryan, courtesy Catholic University of America) The purpose of Catholic education is to help students grow deeper in their identity as children of God made in his […]
Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg, who is the special representative for refugee issues for the German Bishops’ Conference, looks through the U.S.-Mexico border fence Aug. 25, 2026, after returning from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. (OSV News photo/Daniela Elpers, courtesy German Bishops Conference) Touring the U.S.–Mexico border between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El […]
People pray during a Labor Day Mass on Sept. 6, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. The Mass organized by the Catholic Labor Network included parishioners, workers and representatives of organized labor. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard) As artificial intelligence accelerates changes in the workplace, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy […]
The offering placed before the altar on Sept. 11, 2001, was unlike any ever seen at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Manhattan’s Financial District: the lifeless body of 68-year-old Franciscan friar and New York City Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge. He was killed when the 110 stories of the World Trade Center’s south tower […]
I wonder where I’ve been all this time, as I didn’t know Archbishop Fulton Sheen until relatively recently. It wasn’t until I arrived in Chicago in 2019 that his name began to ring a bell. One evening, while browsing YouTube for material for my parish ministry, I came across a video from the 1950s in […]
A protester is seen in a file photo holding a placard during a demonstration against physician-assisted suicide. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, two orders of Catholic nuns and a pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3, 2026, over the state’s physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. The […]