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(OSV News) — At first glance, the official photo of Venerable Augusto Ramírez Monasterio — known simply as “Fray Augusto” — shows a smiling Franciscan friar standing in a small …

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Feb. 1 to those gathered in St. Peter’s Squarer, reflecting on Jesus Christ’s Beatitudes.

WHITESVILLE, Ky. (OSV News) — As a musician, Sister Catherine Marie Schuhmann likens the expressions of the female Passionist vocation to “a symphony orchestra — all these different instruments, all …

The British prime minister began his official visit to China on Jan. 28, amid calls to press on human rights issues with China’s President Xi Jinping, including the case of …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A federal appeals court ruled late Jan. 28 that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended legal protections for hundreds of thousands of people from …

ROME (CNS) — Asked about the deadly shootings by U.S. federal agents in Minneapolis, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said the violence unfolding there is “unacceptable.”   “The …

(OSV News) — A change is coming in 2026 for the pope’s top man in America. Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, turns 80 Jan. 30, and …

While it might seem unusual — perhaps even whimsical — a man who didn’t earn a college degree now has his name attached to a network of over 70 Catholic …

(OSV News) — Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne bid his farewell to the German Synodal Way and said he won’t participate in the upcoming sixth assembly, starting Jan. 29. …

PLYMOUTH, Minn. (OSV News) — No one would likely have predicted Dominican Sister Amelia Hueller’s future path when she was a girl in Stillwater — least of all the sister …