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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- The public session of the fall plenary assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened Nov. 12 with remarks from Archbishop...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- As the U.S. bishops began their fall general assembly Nov. 11, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio urged his brother bishops to beg for...
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(OSV News) -- In vitro fertilization is a topic that received significant national attention during the past election season as candidates made it a policy...
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(OSV News) -- The Diocese of Oakland, California, filed a formal Chapter 11 reorganization plan Nov. 8 in an effort to settle some 345 claims of sexual...
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(OSV News) -- A small group of priests serve one of the largest archdioceses in the United States. But their parish could be as far away as a military...
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(OSV News) -- As Catholics in the U.S. wrap up National Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 3-9, one of the world's largest Catholic fraternal organizations announced...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Economic concerns among voters likely played a key role in former President Donald Trump's defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris,...
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(OSV News) -- Proposed school choice initiatives in three states -- Colorado, Kentucky and Nebraska -- appear to have been defeated at the ballot box in...
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(OSV News) -- A bid to legalize recreational marijuana fell short in Florida, while North Dakota and South Dakota have rejected doing so, according to...
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(OSV News) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling for prayer and unity, following the nation's general election that saw...
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(OSV News) -- West Virginians appeared on track to approve a constitutional amendment to ban medically assisted suicide and euthanasia in their state,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota Nov. 5 rejected amendments to their state constitutions that would have codified...
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(OSV News) -- "Abortion has overtaken immigration to become the second most important issue for voters heading into the 2024 election," Newsweek, the global...
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(OSV News) -- Ahead of the general election, OSV News spoke with Jason Adkins, executive director and general counsel of the Minnesota Catholic Conference,...
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(OSV News) -- Julia McStravog compares these days immediately following the end of the Synod on Synodality's second assembly to a "bye week" in football...
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(OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has announced it will discontinue its partnership with the Girl Scouts of the USA due to the organization's...
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NORCROSS, Ga. (OSV News) -- Traffic came to a standstill along Beaver Ruin Road in the northeast metro area of Atlanta Oct. 25 as Catholics, representing...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Catholic voters are among the key constituencies that candidates are seeking to win in 2024, as surveys and analysts indicate...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- As Hispanic Heritage Month drew to a close, dozens of leaders of Catholic organizations and Hispanic pastoral leaders gathered...
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(OSV News) -- Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, has issued a decree prohibiting certain hymns due to theological error or their composition...
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(OSV News) -- The archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, Archbishop Roberto O. González Nieves, has written an open letter to former President Donald...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- After Vice President Kamala Harris said she does not think "concessions" should be made on codifying abortion protections, some...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Francis' new encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus is being hailed as "a simple and powerful cure" for a fractured world, said the...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty is encouraging Catholics to take part in a Nov. 15-23 novena ahead of the feast...
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BALTIMORE (OSV News) -- As a part of his ministry as rector of the Baltimore Basilica, Father James Boric made a point of periodically walking two blocks...
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(OSV News) -- Three states -- Nebraska, Kentucky and Colorado -- will have ballot measures related to school choice before voters on Nov. 5. Nebraska...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In the majestic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington during an Oct. 16 celebration of life for Ethel Skakel Kennedy,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV NEWS) -- Jennie Bradley Lichter, president-elect of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, said challenges for the group's cause...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 9 considered a bipartisan appeal to reverse the death penalty conviction of Richard Glossip, a case...
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LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached an agreement in principle worth $880 million to compensate more than a thousand decades-old...
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TRENTON, N.J. (OSV News) -- Before the standing-room-only congregation gathered in Trenton's St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral for the first statewide...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- U.S. Supreme Court justices on Oct. 15 appeared skeptical of a challenge from a U.S. citizen about her non-citizen spouse's revoked...
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(OSV News) -- When Chris Bartlett told a parish group his wife had miscarried, he recalls the women gathering around to console her and share their own...
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(OSV News) -- Ahead of World Mission Sunday -- which the Catholic Church celebrates on the second to last Sunday in October, and which in 2024 falls on...
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(OSV News) -- The naming of a Japanese atomic bomb survivors group as this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient is "fitting ... during this time of heightened...
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(OSV News) -- Michigan's Catholic bishops have expressed "profound disappointment and offense" after that state's Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared to mock...
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