News & Commentary
Priest killed, one missing as church assesses damage from Haiti quake
OSV News
August 17, 2021
The magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Haiti collapsed the bishop's residence in Les Cayes, killing one priest, leaving one missing and injuring Cardinal Chibly Langlois.
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US bishops support immigration provisions in $3.5 trillion spending bill
OSV News
August 16, 2021
The U.S. bishops' migration chair said Aug. 12 that the Catholic leaders were pleased the $3.5 trillion spending plan passed by the Senate a day earlier would provide "lawful permanent status to qualified immigrants."
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Some Catholic hospitals now require employees to get COVID-19 vaccine
OSV News
August 13, 2021
Mercy Sister Mary Haddad, president of the Catholic Health Association, is on a mission. She hopes to clarify some of the current confusion leading to both vaccine hesitancy and recent protests over vaccine mandates being put in place to curb the ...
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Environmental leaders: UN climate report can spur prayerful action
OSV News
August 12, 2021
Amadou Diallo, a program manager for Catholic Relief Services in Senegal, knows from talking with the farmers and cattle herders in his country that the cyclical droughts the country experienced occurred about once every 10 years for generations.
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Australian outback school named for teen on way to sainthood
OSV News
August 11, 2021
An Australian outback diocese has announced what is believed to be the world's first high school to be named after a teenage computer programmer beatified by Pope Francis last year.
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Street Masses bring Catholic Church to the people in Chicago neighborhood
OSV News
August 10, 2021
CHICAGO (CNS) -- For the neighbors who came out for a recent street Mass in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, blessings abounded. The weather held, with no rain and a breeze to lift the heat. Cicadas sang and birds twittered in ...
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National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception named a Jubilee Year site