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Bishop René Henry Gracida, who was shepherd of the Diocese of Corpus Christi for 14 years, died on the morning of May 1

An appeals court on May 1 temporarily blocked ‌a federal policy permitting mifepristone, sometimes called the abortion pill, to be dispensed through the mail.

Federal authorities announced that an unnamed juvenile will be prosecuted for “a rash of swatting calls” targeting several universities and institutions last August.

FRONT ROYAL, Va. (OSV News) — “The British are coming! The British are coming!” That has been the cry throughout Front Royal, a small town of 16,000 in Virginia’s Shenandoah …

(OSV News) — Maryland’s top court has ruled that state’s attorney general cannot disclose the names of Archdiocese of Baltimore clergy and staff appearing in a grand jury investigation of alleged …

(OSV News) — Many things are named in honor of popes, including shrines, schools and other structures. In Singapore, there’s even an orchid variety with a papal moniker: Dendrobium His Holiness …

Several U.S. and Japanese Catholic bishops seeking nuclear disarmament are expressing both urgency and wariness as the U.N. head admits “arms control is dying.”

President Donald Trump’s social media and verbal attacks on Pope Leo XIV could add to challenges facing Republican candidates in the midterm elections later this year, analysts told OSV News.  

The head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference denounced the violence at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attended by Trump.

The same week, President Donald Trump said in response to questions from journalists not to “rush” him on the Iran war, as controversy over his comments about Pope Leo XIV …