WILMINGTON, Del. (OSV News) — Capuchin Franciscan Father John Aurilia — the former assistant to St. Padre Pio whose final interview last October on the Wilmington’s Diocese’s Catholic Forum broke ...

(OSV News) — A series of recent announcements by bishops in Angola, Algeria and Spain have indicated that Pope Leo XIV will embark on trips to their respective countries this year. The Holy See ...

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The Trump administration “quietly released” Title X family planning funds to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, prompting the American Civil Liberties ...

(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed a special Jubilee Year coinciding with the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi. The Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican tribunal that deals ...

(OSV News) — A congregation of Catholic women religious is lamenting the downfall of an acclaimed nursing home it once operated, after severe neglect and endangerment of residents by the current ...

(OSV News) — Mexico’s Catholic leaders have urged the country’s political leaders to listen to victims of violence, seek input from all sectors of society and work together toward pacifying the ...

(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV met Jan. 15 with the families of victims of the Crans-Montana bar fire on New Year’s night, which took the lives of 40 people and injured 116 in a Swiss resort tragedy. The ...

VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s Jan. 14, 2026, general audience given in the Paul VI Hall. The Documents of Vatican Council II. I. Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum. 1.

Only days after announcing a planned-upon, heavily hedged conversion to Christianity, Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, author, political commentator and professed agnostic died of ...

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Jan. 14 that the first in a series of direct humanitarian shipments to Cuba “in close partnership with the Catholic Church” would ...

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — Several Catholic universities are expressing concern and pledging cooperation with federal authorities, after 26 individuals were charged in a large-scale scheme to fix NCAA ...