Report on alleged conditions at ICE’s Florida detention sites prompts Catholic leaders’ call for change July 29, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News A new report alleges that three Florida immigration detention sites deny timely medical care, potentially resulting in deaths, and have freezing and overcrowded cells with no bedding or hygiene access.
Can’t afford a Catholic college? Think again. Many offer full tuition options July 26, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, Schools, World News For high school students yearning to attend a Catholic college, there is an encouraging development: Many Catholic institutions of higher learning are increasingly committed to making academia accessible through free, full tuition programs.
ANALYSIS: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ gives school-choice advocates partial victory with more to do July 9, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: News, Schools, World News The approved version creates a new federal tax credit for individuals who make donations to 501(c)(3) public charities providing scholarships to elementary or secondary school pupils.
ANALYSIS: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ cuts expected to outweigh benefits for low-income families July 8, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News It’s a question with profound implications for millions of Americans: With the Trump administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed into law July 4, will families thrive or languish? Will poverty increase, or decrease? Will more go hungry, or will more be fed?
As revival’s Year of Mission draws to close, organizers look back — and ahead June 13, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News In the same way that a relationship with Christ is not about something but someone, the organizers of the National Eucharistic Revival will tell you that their movement is not just something faithful Catholics do, but something that they are — a grace from God, stirring up the hearts of his people.
As chaotic demonstrations erupt across U.S., Catholic experts counsel nonviolence June 12, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News It’s an important precept of Catholic citizenship: Ethical disagreement with public policy — and a desire to peacefully change it — is a worthy undertaking.
Many Catholics in autism community see RFK Jr. remarks ‘disrespectful,’ ignorant June 6, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Disabilities Ministry, Feature, News, World News For many of those who know and love someone who is neurodiverse — living with autism — the words of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this spring stung like a slap in the face.
‘Change of era’ prompts Catholic University of America to launch new degrees in AI June 6, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News At The Catholic University of America in Washington, the reaction has been strategic: to launch two new degree offerings, a bachelor of science and a master of science in artificial intelligence — both of which will debut in the fall of 2025. Specialized tracks will include AI in health care, robotics, ethical AI design and large language models.
The digital pontiff: Pope Leo XIV makes AI a top issue June 5, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Vatican, World News While the world is still just getting to know him, first impressions appear to hint that Pope Leo XIV doesn’t seem like a pontiff to say, “I told you so.”
Panelists: Transhumanism is not just latest tech advance but seeks to one day replace humans June 1, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News A May 15 discussion of the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America in Washington offered immediate insight with its title, “Transhumanism: The Last Heresy?”
Popular priest podcaster takes ‘Parables’ tour cross-country to sold-out crowds May 23, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, World News Now in his 20th year of “Bulldog Catholic” campus ministry, Father Schmitz has seen steady and encouraging growth — defying the prevailing narrative that 85 percent of Catholic college students will likely lose their faith before they graduate.
Experts flag concerns over EPPC study on dangers of pill used in miscarriage care, abortion May 21, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News The title of a new study released April 28 by the Ethics and Public Policy Center is one Catholics, following the church’s moral teaching, would agree upon: “The Abortion Pill Harms Women.”
