Pope Leo greets Knights of Columbus at Supreme Convention celebrating hope, service August 6, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, News, World News Pope Leo XIV commended the Knights of Columbus for uniting Catholic men in prayer and fraternity, while extending “generous service to vulnerable populations,” as the fraternal organization holds its 143rd Supreme Convention in Washington.
Wenski: Pivot to immigration reform, not ‘Alcatraz’ camps, now the border is secure August 6, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News Archbishop Wenski argued that the border is now secure, and for the sake of the common good, Congress and President Donald Trump should pursue immigration reform and turn aside from a course of mass detention and deportation that violates human dignity.
Pope calls for nuclear disarmament, real commitment to peace August 5, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The scars still borne by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and still visible on the cities’ streets and buildings are a plea to pursue peace and disarmament, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope visits teen who fell ill during Jubilee of Youth, prays with family August 5, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family.
Journey together, seek real encounters, pope advises young people August 5, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, Youth Ministry A solo traveler, even using Google maps and ChatGPT, cannot safely and happily complete the journey of life or the journey of faith, Pope Leo XIV told thousands of young pilgrims meeting at the Marian shrine in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Indian nuns released on conditional bail; advocates, superiors call their arrest ‘unlawful’ August 5, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Two Catholic nuns and an Indigenous youth jailed for alleged human trafficking and forced conversion in central India have been released on bail under strict conditions by a special court dealing with terror cases.
Irish lay missionary, child among several kidnapped from orphanage in Haiti August 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Missions, News, World News A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation’s long-running armed gang violence and instability.
West Virginia bishop warns on immigration: ‘The final judge of our actions is God’ August 5, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., is urging the people of his state to “affirm the humanity of all immigrants, regardless of legal status.”
Peace, disarmament begin in the heart, said Archbishop Broglio August 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, News, World News Peace and nuclear disarmament begin in the heart, said the head of the nation’s Catholic bishops.
Trump administration moves to reinstate VA health policy fully excluding abortion August 4, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Respect Life, World News The Trump administration said Aug. 1 it would revoke its predecessor’s policy rule that included abortion as a covered health benefit for veterans and their dependents, and return to a policy of fully excluding abortion and abortion-counseling.
Mass celebrated at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for detained Catholic migrants August 4, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, World News The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Lebanese Catholic clergy commemorate Beirut port explosion victims five years later August 4, 2025By Dale Gavlak OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, World News Lebanon’s Catholic clergy celebrated a commemorative Mass and held a vigil in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, remembering those who perished five years earlier, on Aug. 4, 2020, in the catastrophic Beirut port explosion.
