A federal appeals court Jan. 2 revived a challenge to a New York state law that opponents alleged violates the hiring practices of churches and pro-life pregnancy centers. The law broadly proscribes ...

When Catholics come to Rome for the Holy Year, their journey should have the specific goal of encountering and listening to ...

She was a wife. A mother. A teacher. She was also -- as the title of a new exhibit at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth ...

The president of the Spanish bishops' conference, Archbishop Luis Argüello of Valladolid, reacted to Spanish public ...

Although Christian leaders in Syria are trying to stay positive about the new Islamist interim government in Damascus, others ...

The work of Catholic prison and jail ministry has been carried out in the United States for decades, according to members of ...

Opening the Holy Door of the oldest Marian shrine in the Western world, Cardinal Rolando Makrickas prayed that the world ...

OSV News recently spoke with researcher Felix Corley of Forum 18 -- a news service that partners with the Norwegian Helsinki ...

Father Henrykh Akalatovich, pastor of the Catholic parish in Valožyn, was sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony in Belarus ...

Several Catholic high schools are mourning former students among the victims of a Jan. 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans.

Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the world to pray with him in January that migrants, refugees and victims of war will have a chance for an education. "Let us pray for migrants, refugees and ...

As the Jubilee Year picks up speed, the faithful must participate by sharing what we have with the disadvantaged, Catholic ...