(OSV News) — Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas …
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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, will preside over the April 26 funeral Mass for Pope Francis. Bishops, cardinals and priests from around the world will …
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(OSV News) — Here are excerpts of statements from several bishops in the U.S. about the April 21 death of Pope Francis, his 12-year pontificate and his legacy of reaching …
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Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) joins the church and the world in mourning the passing of Pope Francis, the 265th successor of St. Peter.
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Until the very last moments of his papacy, the “pope of tenderness” was his other name — like when he visited the Roman prison on Holy Thursday, blowing a kiss …
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Donations to the annual Catholic Home Missions Appeal will help support more than 70 “home mission dioceses” in the U.S., as well as its current and former territories, the U.S. …
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Gaza Strip’s only Catholic parish marks Holy Week amid Israeli bombardment of the enclave.
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St. Gianna “is a powerful patron for pregnant and parenting mothers,” says the text for the first day of the novena.
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Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, and named Bishop William Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, as his successor.
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New Jersey oratory rector said exhibit of 500-plus relics is a chance to ask for saints’ intercession but also “to feel inspired by their lives.”
