Thousands will gather in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 7 for the highly anticipated canonization of two modern saints — but if flying to Rome isn’t an option, one can watch every moment of the joyous occasion via livestream at OSV News.

Italian police and special forces thwarted a possible terrorist attack meant to target a centuries-old Catholic festival that thousands of people, including Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, were expected to attend.

Supporters of a Catholic winner of the Nobel Peace Prize have urged Western church leaders to take up his cause four years after he was detained and jailed in Belarus on trumped-up charges.

The future Christians hope for and must build “is not one of walls and barbed wire, but one of mutual acceptance,” Pope Leo XIV told young adult Catholics from more than a dozen Mediterranean countries.

After lawmakers returned to Washington from their August recess, they faced a familiar deadline: Passing legislation to fund the federal government and avert a shutdown at the end of September.

On the eve of his canonization, St. John Paul’s homily for Pier Georgio Frassati’s beatification remains a profound testament to the virtues that defined Frassati’s short but luminous life.

After the deadly Aug. 27 mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis during a liturgy marking the start of the school year, lawmakers are weighing what — if any — legislative response may follow.

Pope Leo XIV expressed condolences to victims and their families after the derailment of Lisbon’s historic funicular streetcar Elevador da Glória, which caused the death of over a dozen people.

As Israeli military operations in Gaza continued, Pope Leo XIV met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Vatican.

Soon-to-be St. Carlo Acutis is a fresh “shoot” budding from the 800-year-old spiritual “vine” of Sts. Francis and Clare in Assisi, said the rector of the shrine housing the millennial teenager’s tomb.