December 2024

(OSV News) — A Benedictine abbot, former college professor and secondary education teacher is now among the students at his abbey’s Catholic high school, proving that — as he told OSV …

(OSV News) — Police in Madison, Wisconsin, said they are investigating a mass shooting at that city’s Abundant Life Christian School Dec. 16 that left at least two killed and …

PARIS (OSV News) — Firefighters and police officers formed a human chain to rescue the crown of thorns from the inferno at Notre Dame on April 15, 2019. On Dec. …

CHICAGO (OSV News) — In the nine days before Christmas, the predominantly Catholic Philippines begins its traditional novena of daily dawn Masses in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary prior …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Immigrants who arrive in a new country and face obstacles and difficulty should find in the Catholic Church a welcoming home and ready assistance, Pope Francis …

“Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious”Ross Douthat Zondervan Books (HarperCollins Christian Publishing Inc) (2025)240 pages, $29.99 In October, New York Times pundit and author Ross Douthat penned an opinion column …

(OSV News) — With several high-profile cases involving financial mismanagement by priests emerging in recent years, two researchers have found some surprising reasons behind clerical embezzlement — and, they told …

Sometimes during Advent as a child, I tried to imagine how Mary felt in the time leading up to Christ’s birth. How she may have gently prepared for the new …

(OSV News) — The Catholic University of America in Washington recently launched a new program that seeks to foster dialogue between academia, religion and the tech industry through hosting events, …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A scholar who has written about the moral implications of atomic weapons and now is writing a book on the historic legacy of faith of Catholics …