August 2023

UPDATE 9/5/2023: The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints clarified Sept. 5 that in including the Ulmas’ seventh child in the family’s Sept. 10 beatification, it had considered the child …

(OSV News) — The recently released cinema biopic “Oppenheimer” dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb which then led to the dropping of …

By Olivia Poust (OSV News) — Deep in the Caucasus — at the crossroads of Asia and Europe — lies the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave surrounded by …

LISBON, Portugal (OSV News) — If one was to line up some rockstar saints loved by the youth, certainly the founder of World Youth Day, St. John Paul II, and …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Biden administration has drawn criticism for its inclusion of abortion in a proposed rule for a bipartisan law guaranteeing protections for pregnant workers that had …

“A lie can travel around the globe in the time it takes the truth to get its boots on.” That line, or variations of it, has been attributed to Mark …

LISBON, Portugal (OSV News) — World Youth Day is known as an event that can and does change lives, but when a teenager said she has regained her sight during …

(OSV News) — As Russia attacks Ukraine’s grain exports — which feed millions in several nations — a U.S. bishop is calling on global leaders to ensure food security. “Russia’s …

By Steven Schwankert NEW YORK (OSV News) — About 1,500 family members and well-wishers joined bishops, priests, religious brothers and dozens of sisters from the Sisters of Life as seven …

LISBON, Portugal (OSV News) — When Pope Francis announced that the South Korean capital city of Seoul would host World Youth Day 2027, Rosemary Shin realized she might make a …