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(OSV News) — An appeals court in southern Italy confirmed that a former priest used manipulative tactics to sexually abuse several minors, and that members of the diocese, including the …

Lent is about changing the trajectory of our lives. We try to nudge our life toward God; toward love, kindness and generosity. In Scripture, we repeatedly see tax collectors and …

Norman C. Francis, who began his 47-year tenure as president of Xavier University of Louisiana on the day Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 and became a …

Catholics in France to hold a nationwide prayer and fasting initiative Feb. 20 to “ask the Lord to enlighten consciences on the gravity of the challenges posed” by an assisted …

Catholic leaders were among those who praised the legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and prominent civil rights leader, who died Feb. 17. He was 84.

Since 1991, the USCCB has held an annual Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, with funds supporting the Catholic Church in the former Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union and …

ROME (OSV News) — Four hundred years after its consecration, St. Peter’s Basilica is getting a 21st-century upgrade, with the Vatican unveiling plans for AI-powered translation services, expanded pilgrim access and …

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.

An authentic Christian community knows how to sincerely and joyfully welcome everyone: Catholics, non-Catholics and people of no faith at all, Pope Leo XIV said.

(OSV News) — Several gunmen abducted 32 people in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, including a catechist and his pregnant wife, in an attack that has increased fears of Christians in the country …