Faithful join in rosary for peace in Washington as pope leads the Marian devotion for world May 31, 2026By Mark Zimmermann OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marian Devotion, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Joining Pope Leo XIV in a worldwide rosary for peace, several hundred people gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington May 30 to seek the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary to bring peace to the hearts of people and peace to nations at war.
Knights of Peter Claver express ‘full support’ for Pope Leo slavery apology May 29, 2026By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Knights of Peter Claver, one of the Catholic Church’s largest historically Black Catholic lay fraternal organizations, said it “offers its full support” for Pope Leo XIV’s acknowledgment of the Church’s role in slavery.
Pope Leo XIV heads to Spain — a missionary country he knows by heart May 29, 2026By Ines San Martin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As the first pope in modern history to have spent much of his priestly ministry as a missionary, Pope Leo arrives in Spain June 6 with a unique familiarity not only with the country itself — which he has visited almost 50 times — but also with the missionary tradition that helped shape Catholicism across much of the world.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage commemorates Catholic history along South Atlantic coast May 29, 2026By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News (OSV News) — After a Pentecost launch, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is marking its first full weekend with events in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina. Four parishes in the Tar Heel State are hosting Mass and Eucharistic adoration as the nine perpetual pilgrims traveling this year’s route head north along the East Coast. The […]
Relics of sister to whom Jesus appeared, showing his Sacred Heart, will come to the U.S. in June May 29, 2026By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News The relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the French Visitation sister who experienced visions of Jesus revealing his Sacred Heart, will be present with the U.S. bishops in Orlando, Florida, when they consecrate the United States to Jesus’ Sacred Heart June 11.
Meet the Silicon Valley priest advising tech companies on artificial intelligence ethics May 29, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: AI, Feature, News, World News Father Brendan McGuire used to be a Silicon Valley technology executive. Now he’s hearing their confessions. Today, the Irish-born pastor of St. Simon Catholic Parish in Los Altos, California, is helping to shape the moral conscience of the artificial intelligence industry.
Pew: Most Americans who attend religious services have heard about political, social issues recently May 29, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Most U.S. adults who regularly attend religious services have heard their clergy speak about at least one political or social issue recently, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Pope Leo asks Catholics worldwide to pray rosary for peace May 30 May 29, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV will preside over a worldwide rosary for peace May 30, uniting Marian shrines across continents in simultaneous prayer to close the Catholic Church’s month of devotion to the Virgin Mary.
Lawmakers back US bishops’ bid to block abortion from pregnant worker protection rules May 28, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Fifty members of Congress offered their support to a lawsuit by the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference and other Catholic organizations seeking to block a federal agency from enforcing an abortion provision within a set of federal regulations meant to add workplace protections for pregnant workers.
Facing soaring fuel and fertilizer prices, Catholic farmers lean on faith May 28, 2026By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Farming, even in the best of times, can be a rather precarious vocation. It’s dangerous work, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration; it’s economically volatile, due to high production costs and fluctuations in market prices; there are climate risks from droughts, floods, and pests.
Supreme Court declines to dismiss Peter’s Pence lawsuit May 28, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ efforts to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it misled donors about the purposes of the annual Peter’s Pence collection.
Why Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is a Catholic journey May 28, 2026By Leonard J. DeLorenzo OSV News Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, World News Because J.R.R. Tolkien was a serious Catholic, one might assume that religion would be evident in his literary masterpiece. Yet, there is no religion in “The Lord of the Rings.” There is magic and even glimpses of the demonic, but the world Tolkien creates is a world wholly contained within itself. It is a large world, an old world, even a mythological world in its own way, but everything is within that world.
