20 years ago, Katrina hit New Orleans hard; today, Crescent City is rising with faith, hope August 28, 2025By Peter Finney Jr. OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, News, World News New Orleans’ battered, 300-year-old history has been marked by fire, pestilence and storm, but Katrina was unprecedented in scope and pain: 1,400 people died; 200,000 homes in Orleans Parish — 80 percent of the city — flooded; and hundreds thousands fled or were transported to safe havens across the country, many never to return.
10 times Pope Leo has included a St. Augustine quote in his public addresses August 28, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo has consistently turned his audience’s eyes to St. Augustine, the fifth-century bishop who continues to serve as a philosophical and theological heavyweight in Catholic thought.
Pope sends his condolences after ‘terrible tragedy’ of school shooting August 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Schools, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV sent his “heartfelt condolences and the assurance of spiritual closeness” to all those affected by the “terrible tragedy” of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis that left two children dead and 17 people injured.
Nation reels as Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis leaves 2 dead, 17 injured August 27, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Gun Violence, News, Schools, World News A deadly mass shooting took place the morning of Aug. 27 at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis shortly after the start of the school day during an all-school Mass at the adjacent Annunciation Catholic Church.
Pope pleads with Israel, Hamas to end violence August 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV appealed to Israel and Hamas to stop the violence that has caused “so much terror, destruction and death.”
Hope is knowing God is near and love will win, pope says August 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Christian hope is not about avoiding pain and suffering but about knowing that God gives people the strength to persevere and to love even when things go wrong, Pope Leo XIV said.
Catholic scholar recalls ministry, impact of late founder of Focus on the Family August 27, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Obituaries, Respect Life, World News In 2014, James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family and a longtime broadcaster, became one of the first evangelical Christian leaders invited to speak at the national March for Life, joining a group of speakers that in past years had been dominated by Catholic clergy and Catholic members of Congress.
Pope to inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si’ during Season of Creation August 27, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, News, Vatican, World News Two months after celebrating a new Mass “for the care of creation,” Pope Leo XIV will return to Castel Gandolfo to formally inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si’, a place of education, ecology and spirituality in the papal summer estate.
Priest’s St. Monica Project helps accompany parents whose children leave the faith August 27, 2025By Katie Yoder OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News The devotion created by Father Buhman, pastor of All Saints in Holdrege and St. John in Smithfield, Neb., centers around an image of St. Monica by a local artist, a prayer asking for the intercession of St. Monica by Father Buhman, and Masses offered for loved ones who have left the Catholic Church.
Trump says his administration will pursue capital punishment for all murders in D.C. August 26, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 26 Cabinet meeting that capital punishment will be sought for all murders in Washington, D.C.
Federal judge rules Maine abortion clinic network can lose Medicaid funding August 26, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News A federal judge in Maine declined on Aug. 25 to prevent the government from stripping Medicaid funding from a network of abortion providers in Maine, arguing that doing so would circumvent “the will of the people as expressed by Congress.”
Deepfake claims emerge as Cameroonian bishop faces viral misconduct video August 26, 2025By Ngala Killian Chimton OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News Cameroonian Bishop Sosthène Bayemi of Obala is facing accusations of alleged sexual misconduct following the circulation of a video on social media.
