ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (OSV News) — OSV News swept the category for one-shot national news writing at the 2026 Catholic Media Awards ceremony, taking home 13 awards overall. The wire service won honorable mention in the category of Best Newspaper, National/Wire Service.
OSV News Photo Editor Bob Roller also received an honorable mention in the Photographer of the Year category.
The awards were presented by the Catholic Media Association on the final night of the 2026 Catholic Media Conference, held June 16-19 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The awards recognized excellence in journalism, photography and other media created in 2025.
OSV News launched Dec. 31, 2022, as a Catholic news and information service from OSV, a Catholic publishing company headquartered in Huntington, Indiana, and founded in 1912 by Archbishop John Francis Noll to serve the Church’s mission by providing professional Catholic news and evangelizing content amid a hostile political and social environment.
As a partner in evangelization, OSV News allows dioceses and other organizations to connect and boost engagement with the faithful through the sharing of timely, trustworthy and accurate news and features stories and commentary that communicate the truth of what is happening in the Catholic Church and around the world.
OSV Books, the publishing division of OSV News’ parent company Our Sunday Visitor Inc., also won awards for 18 books published in 2025.
Here is OSV News’ award-winning coverage:
Best Newspaper — National/ Wire Service
Honorable Mention — OSV News
Photographer of the Year
Honorable Mention — Bob Roller
Best News Writing One Shot — National Event
First Place — Simone Orendain
A Drowned Toddler Was Near Death. Then His Parents Began the Blessed McGivney Novena
Best News Writing One Shot — National Event
Second Place — Kimberley Heatherington
Field of Crosses: Immigrant Artist’s Memorial to DC Air Disaster Victims, a Call to Love
Best News Writing One Shot — National Event
Third Place — Gina Christian
Hundreds Protest with El Paso Bishop: ‘Stop the Deportations’
Best News Writing on a Local Event — National Newspaper Or Wire Service
First Place — Maria Wiering and Gina Christian
Minneapolis Catholic school shooting
Best News Writing Series — National Event
Second Place — Lauretta Brown and Gina Christian
Best News Writing One Shot — International Event
Honorable Mention — Jonathan Luxmoore
Jailed Catholic Priests ‘Used as Hostages’ in Belarus
Best News Writing One Shot — International Event
Honorable Mention — Maria Wiering
Americans Going to Carlo Acutis’ Canonization Inspired by Relatable Teen’s Love for Eucharist
Best Reporting Of Social Justice Issues — Care For God’s Creation
Second Place — Gina Christian and Kate Scanlon
Trump Administration Environmental Moves Continue to Worry Catholic Advocates
Best Reporting Of Social Justice Issues — Solidarity
Second Place — Simone Orendain
Jail Ministry, Little Noticed but in Demand, ‘Helps People Hear the Voice of Christ’
Best Multiple Picture Package — News
Third Place — Bob Roller
Best Photograph — Immigration/Migration
Second Place — Bob Roller
El Paso march against mass deportations
OSV Books awards:
Pilgrimages/Catholic Travel
First Place — Marion Amberg
“Incredible Catholic America: Smallest, Tallest, Oldest, Oddest”
Pope Francis
First Place — OSV
“Remembering Pope Francis”
Children’s Devotions and Prayer
First Place — OSV Kids; Adalee Hude, Illustrator
“The Magnificat (I Can Pray)”
Children’s Devotions and Prayer
Third Place — Colleen Pressprich
“OSV Kids Rosary”
Adult Devotions and Prayer
First Place — Shawn Chapman
“Meeting The One Who Loves You: Saint Teresa Of Ávila’s Way Of Prayer”
Adult Devotions and Prayer
Second Place — Father Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP
“Given for You: Eucharistic Stations of the Cross
Adult Devotions and Prayer
Honorable Mention — Thomas J. Kronholz
“Make Our Hearts Like Yours: Daily Mediations on the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Liturgy or Worship
Honorable Mention — Mike Aquilina
“The Mass Of The Early Christians,” Revised and Expanded, Third Edition
Pope Leo XIV
Honorable Mention — Jes Colina
“Pope Leo XIV”
Newly Canonized Saints or Those In The Process
First Place — Carlo Acutis and Giorgio Maria Carbone
“Carlo’s Simple Wisdom: Words Of Hope From A Young Saint”
Biography
First Place — Father Rupert Allen, Cong. Orat.
“I Wait In The Night: The Death Row Journal Of Jacques Fesch”
Faith and Science
Honorable Mention — Father James Kurzynski
“Behold the Heavens: Discovering God Through the Night Sky”
Children’s Board Books and Picture Books
Honorable Mention — Alex Derose
“My Catholic 123”
Preschool Reading
First Place — Lindsay Schlegel
“God’s Little Flowers”
Preschool Reading
Second Place — Gracie Jagla
“If A Saint Had A Song”
Preschool Reading
Third Place — Gracie Jagla
“If The Pope Had A Puppy”
Children’s Independent Reading
Honorable Mention — Colleen Pressprich
“OSV Kids Discover”
First-Time Author: Children’s Book
First Place — Hunter Leonard
“When God Speaks”
