The Mexican bishops' conference has called on the country's freshly sworn-in president to pursue social peace as she inherits ...

California's Democratic attorney general Sept. 30 sued a Catholic hospital he accused of refusing to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman despite an "immediate threat" to her life.

One of my main ministries at my parish is serving Communion. This ministry includes serving Communion at Mass, but it also ...

Since Hamas' attack on Israel Oct. 7, 2023, and the immediate start of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis has provided daily ...

As the Israel-Hamas war expands to include attacks in Lebanon -- where the Iran-backed Shia militia Hezbollah is based -- OSV ...

In the afterglow of July's 10th National Eucharistic Congress, Jason Shanks senses that there's a new "way of evangelization" ...

Judge Robert McBurney of Superior Court of Fulton County in Atlanta ruled Sept. 30 that Georgia can no longer enforce its so-called "heartbeat law" on abortion, a six-week abortion ban that went into ...

Relief efforts are under way to help communities across western North Carolina reeling from the impacts of Tropical Storm ...

Four Florida dioceses with substantial coastal exposure along the Gulf of Mexico have been assessing significant flood damage ...

Three years after being approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops, updates to the ritual texts for distribution of holy Communion ...

It felt as if the whole country mourned and wept as family, friends and 3,000 other people packed the St. Louis Cathedral in ...

In 1997, the critically acclaimed science fiction film "Gattaca" depicted a genetically stratified dystopia in which the genetically engineered class ruled over those who had been born naturally. At ...