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What does the bishop of Silicon Valley have to say about Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” on artificial intelligence?

“An estimated 7.9 million people were already in need of assistance” from “years of economic crisis, food insecurity and weakened public services.”

A provision of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year expired July 4.

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — Participants in the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage carry on the “great legacy of faith” that has crucially shaped the U.S., now marking its 250th anniversary, said …

While much progress has been made, Bishop Gruss said the stain of abuse remains a “sad and tragic period in the life and history of the Church Church.”

The Supreme Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex.

On the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. bishops and pro-life leaders pointed to abortion pills as among …

Juneteenth “challenges us as individuals, as a society, and as the church, to renew our commitment to human dignity, racial justice, reconciliation, and peace.”

Religious Freedom Week 2026 — beginning June 22, the feast of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, and ending June 29 — “is more timely than ever,” said one …

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.