October 2024

(OSV News) — Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, issued binding diocesan policies Sept. 12 on the “formation of young people in Catholic Christian anthropology and pastoral …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old Ukrainian bishop who heads his church’s eparchy …

Discussions of family size have increased in political and religious discourse as U.S. birth rates hit historic lows. Catherine Pakaluk, an economist and associate professor at The Catholic University of …

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — The celebration of the Jewish New Year this Oct. 2-4 took place just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and just …

(OSV News) — Oct. 7 marks the grim one-year anniversary of the latest war in the Middle East, the date when the Hamas Palestinian terrorist organization attacked Israel out of …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — President Joe Biden expanded restrictions on asylum that immigration officials cite as behind a dramatic decrease in illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. Bishop Mark J. …

CHARLOTTE (OSV News) — Late Sept. 27 night, as the first photos and cries for help emerged after Tropical Storm Helene ripped through the North Carolina mountains, Father John Putnam …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas advocated for a pragmatic and orderly approach to immigration policy in a Sept. 30 conference on migration co-hosted …

This week an OSV News contingent traveled to Rome for the “Synod on Synodality” that started Oct. 2 (here are seven things to know about the second and final session …

(OSV News) — As the Jewish community celebrates Rosh Hashanah amid the Israel-Hamas war and rising antisemitism around the world, two New York prelates have released a message of support. …