North America

(OSV News) — As Pope Francis continues to recover at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, Catholics in the pope’s Diocese of Rome and around the world joined in prayer for his health. …

 (OSV News) — A diverted trip, a grounded flight and an unexpected stay in Canada showed that “Jesus … is in charge, not us,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New …

(OSV News) — Pope Francis has named Father Alan E. Campeau, current pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Dryden, Ontario, and two other parishes, as the new bishop of Thunder Bay …

(OSV News) — In an eventful year for life issues — including abortion, assisted suicide, and immigration — advocates and opponents alike wrestled with outcomes, each other, governments, public opinion, and …

(OSV News) — About a dozen Jesuits from all over the world on a search and rescue mission in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert Dec. 20-22 came across eight areas that had remains …

(OSV News) — Pro-life and anti-euthanasia activists in Canada are decrying that government’s latest efforts to expand its assisted suicide policy by accepting “advance requests” — and a national survey on …

BUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — Mexico’s Catholic clergy have called for a truce on Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and on Christmas Day as criminal violence …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — President-elect Donald Trump will attend the upcoming reopening ceremony for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, he said Dec. 2. The trip will mark his first foreign …

REYNOSA, Mexico (OSV News) — Reynaldo Ceron received an unexpected surprise on Nov. 6, the day after the U.S. election. The migrant from El Salvador, who confessed experiencing preelection “anxiety,” …

MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — The Mexican bishops’ conference expressed deep concern over an initiative in the Mexico City assembly “which seeks to completely eliminate legal protection for life in …