Trump calls consecration of US ‘poignant reminder’ nation is guided by ‘loving hand of God’ June 12, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News President Donald Trump June 11 called the U.S. Catholic bishops’ consecration of the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for its 250th anniversary “a powerful moment in our national story and a poignant reminder that America has always been guided by the loving hand of God.”
Tower of Jesus Christ inauguration: How Sagrada Família’s breathtaking spectacle came to life June 12, 2026By Ines San Martin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As hundreds of drones illuminated the night sky above Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, or Basilica of the Holy Family, forming the image of Antoni Gaudí and one of the architect’s most enduring maxims — “First love, then technique” — the message seemed almost paradoxical.
US bishops approve updates to landmark child protection policies June 12, 2026By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News The U.S. Catholic bishops approved several updates to their landmark document on protection policies for children and minors, seeking to define key terms while balancing care for victim-survivors with accused clergy’s right to a presumption of innocence until proven otherwise.
Pope Leo: Whoever immerses in the Sacred Heart no longer lives for themselves June 12, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News At the final Mass of his visit to Spain, Pope Leo XIV called on Christians to look beyond the allure of commerce and profit and instead embrace the vocation of hospitality and the wisdom that comes from the encounter with the vulnerable and the suffering.
Pope Leo tells trafficking survivors God recognizes their ‘inestimable worth’ during Canary Islands visit June 11, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo delivered a powerful message to human trafficking survivors June 11 during the first stop of a two-day visit to Spain’s Canary Islands, one of Europe’s closest points of entry from the African coast.
How to watch the bishops consecrate the US to the Sacred Heart of Jesus June 11, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: America's 250th anniversary, Feature, News, World News In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. bishops are consecrating the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus June 11 in Orlando.
$70B immigration-enforcement funds exclude bishops-supported migrant protections June 11, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News President Donald Trump signed legislation June 10 providing $70 billion to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol.
Child protection, sainthood causes, World Youth Day on US bishops’ spring meeting agenda June 11, 2026By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Headlining the June 10 public session of the U.S. bishops’ spring plenary in Orlando were addresses by the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the new apostolic nuncio to the United States, along with a preliminary presentation on proposed updates to the bishops’ landmark document on protection policies for children and minors.
Pope Leo blesses Sagrada Familia’s Tower of Jesus, says beauty can lead people to God June 11, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV blessed the newly completed Tower of Jesus Christ at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica June 10, inaugurating the crowning spire that makes the iconic church the tallest Catholic church the world and urging people to lift their gaze to Christ “who alone reveals to us the truth about God and the truth about ourselves.”
‘Peace cannot be attained without mercy,’ Pope Leo tells global congress in Lithuania’s capital June 10, 2026By Katarzyna Szalajko OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As Catholics from around the world gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the sixth World Apostolic Congress on Mercy, Pope Leo XIV said the world’s growing need for peace cannot be separated from mercy, urging believers to become witnesses of God’s compassion in a time marked by war, violence and uncertainty.
Don’t let painful past overshadow hopeful future, pope tells Barcelona inmates June 10, 2026By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Amid the loneliness and despair of life behind bars, God continues to love and encourage the imprisoned to not let the sorrows of their past deter them from the hope of a better future, Pope Leo XIV told prisoners in Barcelona.
US bishops thank pope for encyclical and shining ‘light of Gospel’ on AI, tech advances June 10, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: AI, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The U.S. bishops in a message to Pope Leo XIV June 10 thanked him for his new encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” and for shining “the light of the Gospel and the tradition of the Church on the new opportunities and challenges posed by the rise” of artificial intelligence and “emerging technologies.”
