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Amid prayers for the conclave, bishops call on faithful to embrace Jesus’ mission

May 8, 2025
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, World News

As Catholics came together at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles to pray for the cardinal electors at the conclave, Archbishop José H. Gomez urged the faithful to also “ask for a new and deeper awareness of the important part that each one of us plays in the church.”

At National Prayer Vigil for Life, young people challenged ‘to be a light in our culture’

January 24, 2025
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

In a basilica “adorned with beautiful mosaic art,” the “most impressive” mosaic was “the gathering of people from so many different places coming together to stand for life and to be a light in our culture,” Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., said Jan. 23.

Cardinal Dolan: ‘I think our cathedral acted extraordinarily well’

February 21, 2024
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Five days after mourners filled the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York for an irreverent “homecoming” funeral for actor and author Cecilia Gentili, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he believes the “cathedral acted extraordinarily well.”

With Christ at center, pro-life efforts will persevere, says U.S. bishops’ pro-life chair

January 19, 2024
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Jesus Christ’s words in the Gospel reading for Jan. 18, “I am with you always until the end of the age,” are critical as “an instruction for how to live in this broken world” and “bring goodness to it,” the U.S. bishops’ pro-life chairman said in his homily at the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life.

Archbishop exhorts Advent vigilance as national shrine’s Holy Door sealed

December 6, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Feature, News, World News

Archbishop Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was the main celebrant of the Mass, which included his blessing and sealing the basilica’s entrance door as a Holy Door for the Catholic Church’s Holy Year 2025, which has as its theme “Pilgrims of Hope.”

USCCB president calls for continued prayer in world where ‘peace seems so far away’

November 14, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, Local News, News, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2023

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 14 urged his brother bishops gathered in Baltimore and all the Catholic faithful to “continue to pray” when “peace seems so far away” in today’s world.

Washington exhibit on Rome’s pilgrim churches showcases pilgrimage history

October 7, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Bible, Feature, News, World News

A map from 1575 is part of a current exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington and is among Jeff Kolha’s favorite prints on display in the exhibit “A Journey of Faith: The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome” in the museum’s Vatican gallery.

‘I forgive you. I pray for you,’ Florida inmate says in final statement before execution

October 6, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

Before he became Florida’s sixth inmate to be executed in the state this year, convicted murderer Michael Duane Zack concluded his final statement Oct. 3 with a message: “To Governor DeSantis and the Clemency Board: I love you. I forgive you. I pray for you.” Zack, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. by lethal […]

Holy See urges more nations to sign on to convention banning cluster munitions

September 13, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News

A Holy See delegation at a Sept. 11-14 meeting of nations that are parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions urged nations that have not yet done so to sign the treaty, which “prohibits under any circumstances the use, development, production, acquisition, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions.”

USCCB argues protecting innocent life must be priority in gun rights case before high court

August 25, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Supreme Court, World News

Protecting the innocent “is a proper consideration” in the government regulation of firearms, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case over whether the government can prohibit a person with a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm.

Maryland court rules religious exemption bars discrimination claim against CRS

August 17, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Religious Freedom

The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Aug. 14 that the religious exemption in the state’s Fair Employment Practices Act “bars claims (of) religious, sexual orientation, and gender identity discrimination against religious organizations by employees who perform duties that directly further the core mission(s) of the religious entity.”

Biden vows to push Congress to codify Roe, while pro-lifers celebrate first anniversary of Dobbs

June 26, 2023
By Julie Asher
OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News

In a statement to mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, President Joe Biden said June 24 that his administration “will continue to protect access to reproductive health care and call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law once and for all.”

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