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Chartres pilgrimage grows as organizers warn against renewed traditionalist divisions

by Caroline de Sury

(OSV News) — The 44th annual traditional pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres will bring together some 20,000 pilgrims over the Pentecost weekend May 23-25 for a 60-mile walk centered …

Pope Leo XIV to publish encyclical on artificial intelligence May 25
What is an encyclical, exactly?
The liturgy sustains the faithful, renewing them in their faith, mission, pope says
Daily pastoral visits resume at ICE facility near Chicago after judge’s order
Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s general audience given May 20, 2026
Devotion to Sacred Heart ‘more timely than ever’ as a return to love itself, says archbishop

U.S. Church

Safe environment, sainthood causes and Sacred Heart on agenda for US bishops’ meeting

by Gina Christian

The nation’s Catholic bishops have a full agenda for their annual spring meeting, with topics including safe environment protocols, sainthood causes, the Synod on Synodality and the consecration …

Parish scarred by clergy abuse creates memorial for survivors

Archbishop Broglio highlights faith, service at annual memorial Mass for Catholic war dead

Global executions surge to highest recorded figure in 44 years, Amnesty International report says

Archdiocese of Baltimore files new proposed plan for Chapter 11 reorganization

San Diego mosque shooting an ‘attack on the sacred dignity of all human life,’ says bishop

World

Interfaith peace march in Jerusalem counters rising violence and division

by Judith Sudilovsky

JERUSALEM (OSV News) — Holding placards calling for “justice,” “trust” and “peace,” religious leaders led hundreds of peace activists, Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze in a march in Jerusalem …

Bolivia’s bishops urge ‘humanitarian pauses’ as protests collapse country
AI cannot replace humanity, conscience, truth, Irish archbishop says
Police recover beloved saint’s relic taken in brazen theft that shocked Czech Catholics
Communion and Liberation founder’s sainthood cause heads to Vatican
UK diocese opens Pedro Ballester’s sainthood cause

Haitian bishop sees ‘signs of God’s tenderness’ amid ongoing recovery from serious burns

Catholics await word on Jimmy Lai as Trump meets Xi in Beijing

Brazilian nun drowns while trying to save fellow sister in Sicily

Vatican

Pope Leo XIV urges confirmation candidates to ask Holy Spirit for gift of perseverance

by Courtney Mares

Opinion

Voting rights: A people of hope in the long journey toward justice

by Bishop Daniel E. Garcia

Young men are struggling to find purpose and vocation

by Vicente Del Real

Catholicism in the Lower South: Thriving communities built on French and Spanish foundations

by Father Anthony D. Andreassi

Reviews

Obsession

by John Mulderig
St. Francis of Assisi in film
‘House of David’ star opens up about Catholic conversion as new season premieres
Looking for a Holy Week read? Updated book explores ‘What Christ Suffered’
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