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(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV encouraged sisters to foster vocations to religious life in the United States in a video message sent Aug. 12. Addressing participants in the Leadership …

The AG’s letter “reflects a misunderstanding of Americans’ fundamental right to religious freedom and is a glaring and dangerous government overreach.”

Before Florida held two executions July 28, its Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to reflect on the Church’s death penalty opposition.

In 2001, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated the first-ever canonical law addressing the sexual abuse of minors, “Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela.”

If both executions take place as scheduled, it will be the first time since 1964 that Florida will have executed two inmates on the same day.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (OSV News) — Is it possible a singular moment could quantify the emotions elicited during an episcopal ordination? For those who witnessed the ordination of Bishop Emilio Biosca …

“I think we have to have integrity that who we are is who we claim to be,” Father Schmitz said at the Fort Lauderdale stop on his “Parables” tour.

The plenary was animated by the bishops’ consecration of the U.S. to the Sacred Heart of Jesus during a June 11 Mass at an Orlando Marian basilica shrine.

MARYS RIVER, Ga. (OSV News) — Under clear blue skies and with a warm wind blowing, Jesus in the Eucharist spent part of Memorial Day on the water traveling from …

Written by R. Jared Staudt, PhD (OSV News) — How many hours, how much money and effort pour into the illusive preservation of our fleeting youth? Legend has it that …