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Cardinal Ferrão, the president of India’s bishops’ conference and archbishop of Goa and Daman, talked about a parish’s success with pastoral family visits and phone-free family evenings.

The Oct. 7-14 closed-door meeting of bishops, convened by Pope Leo, is focused on marriage and family.

More than a dozen U.S. bishops met with members of Congress Sept. 16 to urge them to enact effective safety guardrails on AI and to protect children online.

“Doctors, legal professionals, disability groups, other faith communities and those of no faith … stood up for the dignity and sanctity of every life.”

Bishop Citora Afonso’s violent death by “an assassin was a harsh blow to the heart of the Catholic Church in Mozambique and continues to cause us grief.”

“Love the people that the Lord has entrusted to you” and boldly bring the Good News of salvation to everyone, Pope Leo XIV told new bishops.

“For all the emphasis on individual freedom, people today frequently feel less free to be their genuine selves or follow their highest ideals,” the pope said.

“The inhumanity and massiveness of these border fortifications reminded me of the Berlin Wall,” a German archbishop said after visiting the U.S.-Mexico border.

(OSV News) — Messages of solidarity from bishops’ conferences across Latin America poured in as rescue workers race against time to save victims still trapped beneath the rubble in multiple …

BRAINTREE, Mass. (OSV News) — The “elimination of any legal restraint on late-term abortion” is “a radical measure which is gravely immoral,” the Catholic bishops of Massachusetts said. The bishops made …