Global Interest

(OSV News) — Rhode Island’s attorney general has published a 284-page report on ...

Religious freedom watchdog annual report spotlights ‘te...

The report was released by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedo...

Court allows subpoena of Archdiocese of Seattle in abus...

A Washington state appeals court has ruled that the state's attorney general can...

Bishops of the Americas meet to address migration, pove...

"Our conversations have focused on how to better guide the People of God with wi...

Cardinal Parolin questions whether missiles, bombs are ...

ROME (OSV News) — The Vatican secretary of state appealed for peace and diplomac...

A pope’s magnificent bet on a young Bernini

An exhibition in Rome traces how Pope Urban VIII backed the 25-year-old artist b...

This is Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month o...

In a video released on X, the Holy Father posed a question to the faithful: “Wou...

Holy See to UN: Christians are the most persecuted comm...

The Holy See’s permanent observer to the UN provided statistics demonstrating th...

Pope ‘cannot comment’ on Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment

The pontiff spoke to reporters for the first time since Dec. 23.

Pope Leo XIV explains the Church’s ‘human and divine di...

The pope’s catechesis focused on the dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium, one of...

International Theological Commission: Human life is a v...

New Vatican-approved document weighs challenges posed by AI and social media.

Vatican synod report urges women’s input in preparing f...

The report also warns seminaries must not become an “artificial environment” det...

Vatican secretary of state warns of Iran escalation

Cardinal Pietro Parolin says sidelining international law and embracing “prevent...

In the face of the mystery of evil, Christians must be ...

Pope Leo was visiting the Church of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ in th...

Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given March 1...

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV‘s Angelus address gi...

Pope warns of ‘irreparable abyss,’ if diplomacy doesn’t...

Pope Leo XIV issued a fervent appeal for return of diplomacy in the Middle East ...

Catholic clergy call for prayer, peace after US-Israel ...

Catholic clergy are calling for prayer and peace following U.S.-Israel strikes o...

USCCB president: Prayer, diplomacy needed in Middle Eas...

The leader of the U.S. Catholic bishops echoed Pope Leo XIV's call for deescalat...

Angels don’t indulge whims, Bishop Varden tells Vatican...

The Cistercian bishop reflected on angels as mediators of God’s providence and o...

Vatican issues stamp honoring Ukrainian Catholics as wa...