New CatholicTV series focuses on service, driven by love, by Black Catholics on sainthood track October 29, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Black Catholic Ministry, Feature, News, Saints, World News A new documentary series on Black Catholics on the sainthood track is set to kickoff Nov. 2 on the Archdiocese of Boston’s CatholicTV network.
Most Catholic health institutions in Illinois temporarily protected from assisted suicide law October 26, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News A significant number of Catholic health workers in Illinois are now covered by a temporary restraining order on the state’s new physician assisted suicide law that took effect Sept. 12.
Pope Leo XIV’s brother shares his own cancer battle, the role of faith and his 1 request October 19, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News While Pope Leo XIV was recovering from an Oct. 13 surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung where doctors found cancer, his oldest brother Louis Prevost was in a Florida hospital receiving treatment for a blood cancer that had become very active after seven years of being at a “low level.”
Traveling ‘Immigrant Crosses’ memorial of ICE-involved deaths launches in Illinois October 12, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News These types of memorials, Father Curran told OSV News, sparked the idea behind the three-foot by two-foot white cross for Villegas González. It is part of a growing collection of more than 100 identical crosses, each bearing the name of someone who died while in an ICE detention center or during enforcement operations since 2020.
Federal agency sues Ohio-based Catholic health system over alleged antisemitism October 1, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, World News A federal agency has sued an Ohio-based Catholic health system and its subsidiary over alleged religious and racial discrimination against a Jewish doctor who was a longtime surgeon.
Vatican’s top diplomat pushes 2-state solution, ‘limits’ on AI at UN General Assembly September 29, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: AI, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican secretary of state on Sept. 24 reiterated the Holy See’s support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East and also called for limits on the fast pace of the development of artificial intelligence, or AI.
National credibly-accused clergy database unveiled as Chicago Archdiocese abuse payouts exceed $400M September 16, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A St. Paul, Minnesota-based firm announced a new abuse settlement with the Archdiocese of Chicago, which has already paid out more than $400 million to abuse survivors, while also unveiling a national database of clergy it says are credibly accused of sexual abuse.
Illinois diocese puts brakes on eulogies and wakes in church before funeral Mass September 9, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News An Illinois diocese has done away with eulogies during funeral Masses and also visitation of the deceased in the church immediately before the Mass.
Catholic Charities agencies spend summer responding to floods, tornadoes, wildfires and a typhoon September 5, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, World News Catholic Charities has been responding to various disasters in the United States this summer and although this is not the most disaster-prone season in recent memory, it did have memorable events.
Catholic schools’ new year sees safety, security and budget impacts after school shooting August 25, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Schools, World News As the new school year starts in multiple Catholic districts across the country, 2025’s deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis during the parish school’s all-school Mass has kept safety and security on the minds of some Catholic school officials and archdioceses with sizable Catholic school districts.
San Antonio priest laicized, excommunicated after calling Popes Francis and Leo ‘usurpers’ August 18, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News A priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio who was “found guilty of schism” has been removed from the clerical state and excommunicated, according to the archbishop of the archdiocese.
Pope Leo night at White Sox baseball park maxes out stadium capacity August 13, 2026By Simone Orendain OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Sports, Vatican, World News White Sox baseball fans sporting custom-designed, black-and-gold, mitre-style hats celebrated Pope Leo XIV, a fellow diehard Sox fan, at a pope-themed game in Chicago Aug. 11.
