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Pope Leo's 70th birthday is Sept. 14. Add a prayer to his spiritual bouquet!
Pope Leo's 70th birthday is Sept. 14. Add a prayer to his spiritual bouquet!

School shooting survivor embraces mission to help bring Jesus, healing to Annunciation youth

by Dave Hrbacek

MINNEAPOLIS (OSV News) — Ellie Mertens huddled under a pew at Annunciation church in Minneapolis on the morning of Aug. 27 as a barrage of bullets screamed past her, …

Add your prayers to this spiritual bouquet for Pope Leo XIV’s 70th
Where to watch the Carlo Acutis, Pier Giorgio Frassati canonizations
Pope inaugurates center, farm dedicated to zero-waste, inclusive economy
Holy See tells nations at UN to end threat of nuclear weapons, even as deterrence
Carlo and the call to evangelize in the digital age

U.S. Church

Washington Roundup: Ruling on wartime law and deportation; fiery Senate hearing on vaccines; and more

by Kate Scanlon

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A federal appeals court found President Donald Trump unlawfully invoked a wartime law to carry out deportations. The same week in Washington, a group of those who said they were victims of sex trafficking by …

Beloved Colombian-born pastor’s homilies ‘got to my heart,’ says parishioner at NJ priest’s funeral

Chicago parish’s ‘Carlo Fest’ celebrates first millennial saint’s upcoming canonization

Pope Leo XIV spiritual bouquet ideas for home, parish and school

Think you know the ‘nones’? Pew study shows nonreligious adults’ nuanced beliefs

Lawmakers grapple with potential public policy responses to church shooting during school Mass

‘Christ calls us to be Christ for one another,’ Mobile’s new shepherd tells faithful

World

Italian police foil attempted attack on Catholic festival; Turkish suspects arrested

by Junno Arocho Esteves

The annual festival, attended by thousands, honors the moving of the body of St. Rose of Viterbo, the city’s patron saint, to her final resting place.

Pope saddened by loss of life in streetcar derailment in Portugal that killed 17
As war nears two-year mark, Catholic leaders head to Holy Land
Decline in Nicaragua church attacks attributed to clergy, religious not allowed to report them
Ukrainian Catholic leaders condemn assassination of Ukrainian lawmaker
Irish missionary freed after monthlong kidnapping in Haiti amid worsening gang violence

Pope appeals for end to conflict in Sudan, open paths for aid

Norway: Bishops ‘troubled’ by growing support for euthanasia

English archbishop warns legalizing assisted suicide could close church-run hospices

Vatican

Pope Leo’s vocation took root in childhood; never ‘a doubt in anyone’s mind’ he’d be a priest

by Simone Orendain

Opinion

God’s dazzling creation

by Effie Caldarola

On the road to Our Lady: How pilgrimage taught me the power of community

by Paulina Guzik

OSV Editors: On 100 days of Leo

by OSV Editorial Board

Reviews

Friar behind ‘Rosary in a Year’ explores Jesus Christ’s ‘blueprint’ in the beatitudes

by Lauretta Brown
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