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USCCB president expresses church’s solidarity with Jewish community


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OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed the Catholic Church’s solidarity with the Jewish community in the wake of a Dec. 14 terror attack by two gunmen that targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

Radio Interview: Black and Native American heritage and mission


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Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice, Radio Interview

George Matysek talks with Father Maurice Henry Sands, executive director of the U.S. Bishops’ Black and Indian Mission Office in Washington, D.C. A priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit and a member of the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi tribes, Father Sands brings a deeply personal perspective to the Church’s long history with Native and African American communities.

Catholic leaders analyze the impact of stricter immigration policies on Hispanic communities


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OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News

The impact of immigration enforcement — including the ongoing nationwide deportation efforts — is “making life unbearable” for many Catholic families and communities, said a group of panelists gathered at Georgetown University for a recent Latino Leader Gathering, hosted by Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life in Washington.

From Chicago to Peru to Rome, Pope Leo remains ‘one of us,’ say US Catholics


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OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Vatican

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — A day before Pope Leo XIV spoke by livestream to teens at the 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference, Kristie Hughes Dugan — president of Little Flower Catholic High School in Philadelphia — summed up the excitement her students felt ahead of the pope’s Nov. 21 “digital encounter” with the nation’s next generation. “Having Pope Leo […]