Covid-19

Most U.S. adults say COVID-19 did more to drive the country apart than bring it together. For a church willing to learn, COVID holds many potential lessons.

(OSV News) — Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels — although just under one quarter of the nation’s Catholics are in …

CHICAGO (OSV News) — After the federal government declared a health emergency in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic, Catholic churches in the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to provide …

(OSV News) — Jason Shanks, president of the OSV Institute for Catholic Innovation, has been named the next CEO of the National Eucharistic Congress, Inc., the organization implementing key components …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Catholic bishops have reiterated the moral permissibility of the COVID vaccines available in the United States for Catholics as booster shots become available ahead …

As we enter the month of September, I find it apropos the Ulma family and their unborn child will be beatified Sept. 10. We’ve had a number of stories about …

How is it that OSV News has been in operation for six months, and yet it feels like it started yesterday? Time flies when you’re having fun, I guess! Looking …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Supreme Court June 30 rejected President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or significantly reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans. …

(OSV News) — Dr. Paul Carson remembers when COVID-19 first commanded his attention: In late February 2020, the virus swept through a Washington state nursing home, ultimately killing dozens of …

(Leer in Español) WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A pandemic-era program that provided extra payments to Americans who qualify for food stamps ended March 1, causing concern for some Catholic advocates …