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Prayer key to sister’s release from ICE detention, but foreign-born religious now on edge

by Gina Christian

Fellow religious from various orders serving in the Rio Grande Valley are “connected to one another” and joined as one amid Sister Letitia’s detention.

Blog: 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
Dorothy Day: Catholic Worker founder pioneered a faith-based alternative to secularist progressivism
Abuse victims reach $31.5 million joint settlement with Quebec Archdiocese, 2 institutions, insurer
Catholics must bring Christ to center of border issues, says priest at border Mass

U.S. Church

Supreme Court takes up case over state, local bans on semiautomatic rifles

by Kate Scanlon

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 took up a case regarding whether state and local bans on semiautomatic rifles, sometimes called assault weapons, violate …

Trial begins in California’s lawsuit against pregnancy resource centers’ abortion pill reversal resources

ICE detains Texas-based religious sister on her way to Mass, releases her several hours later

Supreme Court rules Trump birthright citizenship order unconstitutional

Tales of pioneer priests recall the building of Catholic America

‘Slow down and listen to Jesus,’ says pastor of Philly church home to first major 40 Hours in US

World

Benedictines launch global jubilee initiative ahead of 1,500th anniversary

by Katarzyna Szalajko

In a noisy world, “Benedictine life proposes something different: a way of inhabiting the world with greater attentiveness, balance and humanity.”

Pope Leo XIV calls for solidarity, prayers after deadly Venezuela quakes
Archbishop calls for prayer, solidarity after twin earthquakes devastate Venezuela
Germany: Vatican denies request for lay homilies, sparks pushback by lay groups
Sudanese priest who chose to remain with his people shot dead in broad daylight
Pakistan Catholics counter persecution with hope, says bishops’ human rights director

French bishops launch prayer novena ahead of key ‘assisted-dying’ vote

Cardinal Pizzaballa prays in the cave where Jesus stopped with his mother

As fuel shortages deepen Cuba’s humanitarian crisis, nuns struggle to sustain ministries

Vatican

Pope Leo calls all Christians to celebrate 2033 anniversary of Christ’s redemption together

by Courtney Mares

Opinion

The fate of Haitian migrants lies with the Senate

by Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski

The human error

by Katie Yoder

In Spain, Pope Leo XIV shared a message of human dignity for all of Europe

by Ines San Martin

Reviews

Supergirl

by John Mulderig
The Breadwinner
Obsession
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