SYDNEY (OSV News) — Australian volunteers working in East Timor say excitement is growing ahead of Pope Francis’ visit there in September, when more than half of the mostly Catholic …
August 2024
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan can be credited with a certain degree of originality in the crafting of his thriller “Trap.” And, though the film as …
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Vance confirms Trump would veto a national abortion ban passed by Congress
by Kate Scanlonby Kate ScanlonWASHINGTON (OSV News) — Former President Donald Trump recently wrote on social media that his administration would be “great for reproductive rights,” a term often used by those who advocate …
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ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) — Florida’s first execution of 2024, scheduled for Aug. 29, has been deemed “hypocrisy” because the death warrant is for a victim of abuse suffered decades …
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By Cardinal Timothy Dolan You’ve seen those “bulletin bloopers.” I enjoy them. Here’s one: “The topic for next week’s sermon will be ‘What will hell be like? Come early and …
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PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — Catholic health care professionals have condemned the Aug. 15 kidnapping of 20 Catholic medical students in Nigeria. In an Aug. 23 press release, the Catholic Medical …
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CHICAGO (OSV News) — After the federal government declared a health emergency in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic churches in the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to provide …
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(OSV News) — Scott Surette, a devout Catholic and longtime owner of a home inspection firm, is on a mission to help renew the church. Yet for all his four …
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Educators say students’ developmental delays on rise, blame screen time, pandemic
by Tom Tracyby Tom TracyMIAMI (OSV News) — Two key educators associated with Head Start of Miami-Dade County in Southern Florida and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami worry about an uptick in …
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(OSV News) — The U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Hispanic Affairs conducted a survey of dioceses and archdioceses in the country’s 14 episcopal regions and released its results Aug. 21. The …