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 […]
Elizabeth Scalia “Bad times, hard times, … We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times” (Sermon 30, St Augustine). In my youth I knew a mother who played cruel “jokes” on babies. With a little one seated on her lap, she would temptingly show a biscuit or a candy, and — […]
Haitian-born Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old honors student at at Wright State University in Greene County, Ohio, died in an apparent suicide Aug. 31, 2026. He is pictured in an undated photo posted on Instagram. His father said that “everything changed” once his son was fitted with an ankle monitor by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement […]
In this courtroom sketch, states’ attorneys Nicklas A. Akers and Megan O’Neill of California speak with U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers and Meta’s lawyer Paul Schmidt in Oakland, Calif., Aug. 26, 2026. Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under […]