The funeral service for Fletcher Merkel, 8, was held Sept. 7 at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, just over a mile from Annunciation Catholic Church, where he and ...

Remembered for her passion for charity, teaching music and unwavering humility, the Duchess of Kent -- a senior Catholic member of the British royal family -- died Sept. 4 at age 92. Ca ...

On Sept. 7, a crowd assembled outdoors on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, near the steps of Bond Hall. In recent years on home football game weekends, the u ...

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington Sept. 8, 2025. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, ...

The "whole situation" in the Middle East "is very serious," Pope Leo XIV told reporters after Israel launched an attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar. "In these moments, there is very serious news of an ...

In a Jubilee year dedicated to hope, Pope Leo XIV and Christian leaders will commemorate "new martyrs and witnesses of the faith" -- people whose lives were signs of hope to the people around them and ...

The Catholic Church has its first millennial saint. At a packed canonization Mass in Rome, with 80,000 attending, it was the face of the mother that said it all during the canonization M ...

In the fall of 1998, I took on my first teaching assignment as a middle school teacher at St. Ann School in Somerville. I was ...

Ellie Mertens huddled under a pew at Annunciation church in Minneapolis on the morning of Aug. 27 as a barrage of bullets screamed past her, mere inches from her head. She h ...

Pope Francis had a special affinity for parents whose children have died. In November 2024, his prayer intention for the ...

This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s homily for the canonization Mass for Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, given Sept. 7, 2025 in St. Peter's Square. Dear brothers an ...

The greatest risk in life is to waste it by not seeking to follow God's plan, Pope Leo XIV said, proclaiming two new saints -- two young laymen of the 20th and 21st centuries.