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Threatened harvest and daily harassment rattle West Bank’s last Christian village

by Judith Sudilovsky

(OSV News) — For the past three months, Israeli settlers have been bringing their sheep herd up to the Kaabnah family compound just outside Taybeh village twice a …

Pope offers prayers for Zimbabwe ferry disaster as death toll passes 90
San Antonio priest laicized, excommunicated after calling Popes Francis and Leo ‘usurpers’
Florida bishops push back on state AG’s threat to participation in school voucher program
Cultivating a relationship with Mary
USCCB’s education director reflects on Catholic school landscape as school year begins

U.S. Church

Religious life must find harmony amid change, LCWR’s president tells assembly

by Dan Stockman | Global Sisters Report

The transformation of religious life “is part of a continual cycle — growing in some places, merging in others and coming to fulfillment in still others.”

Washington Roundup: Leavitt to step down, Vance urges DOJ investigation over ‘gender ideologies’

Religious life must find harmony amid change, LCWR’s president tells assembly

DeSantis urged to exercise ‘justice, mercy’ and commute Florida inmate’s death sentence to life

‘Strange Land’: The Hillbilly Thomists drop new album while on tour

Iowa dioceses create scholarship-granting organization for federal tax credit program

World

Pope ‘saddened’ by devastation in Indonesia following earthquake

by Junno Arocho Esteves

Pope Leo XIV conveyed his solidarity with the people of Indonesia after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country’s eastern coast

Australian bishop found guilty of abusing 3 young Aboriginal men
Pope Leo XIV offers prayers, financial assistance to disaster-stricken Colombia
Jordan prepares for 2,000th anniversary of Christ’s Baptism in 2030
Desecration of Madrid tabernacles, relic prompts court filing by Christian legal group
Latin America: Bishops express solidarity with Colombia as death toll surpasses 250

Pope Leo says Sunday is ‘foundation and kernel’ of liturgical year

Hong Kong’s Father Benedict Chao, world’s oldest Trappist monk, dead at 108

Pope Leo XIV offers prayers, condolences as bishops urge solidarity following Colombia earthquake

Vatican

Pope at Angelus: Mary a sign of hope, consolation for the world

by Junno Arocho Esteves

Opinion

The Church in the Upper Midwest

by Father Anthony D. Andreassi

Bob Dylan makes me want to be 80. Or even 85.

by Elizabeth Scalia

Five times to pray on the go

by Colleen Pressprich

Reviews

Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie

by John Mulderig
The Odyssey
Live-action ‘Moana’ sets sail on the silver screen
Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ to return to theaters
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