WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, said in a recent column that President Joe Biden made “a mockery of our Catholic faith” by making the …
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Did you hear about the Father Justin AI rolled out by Catholic Answers this week? This sort of stuff is right up my alley as digital editor, but disappointingly I …
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(OSV News) — parishioner was stabbed outside a historic San Francisco church April 21, where the city’s Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was administering the sacrament of confirmation. The San Francisco …
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Five years ago, on April 15, flames engulfed Notre Dame Cathedral. It had long been on my bucket list of places to visit. I remember watching online videos of the …
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (OSV News) — Church leaders have expressed concern that some passages in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church could be deemed offensive under Scotland’s new …
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s death sentence is the first under Biden administration
by Kate Scanlonby Kate Scanlon(OSV News) — A federal death sentence for the man convicted of a 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue marks the first such penalty sought for and won by …
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(OSV News) — The chairman of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, has described religious freedom conditions in Nigeria as “abysmal.” Speaking July 18 at a House …
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JERUSALEM (OSV News) — A local Israeli reporter went undercover as a priest and was spat at several times while walking the streets of Jerusalem, Haaretz, the Israeli daily, reported. …