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Jeremiah Trotter Jr., who graduated in 2020 from St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia, is pictured during a game in his senior year. Trotter, now a linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles, newly crowned Super Bowl champions, credits his four years at a Jesuit institution for helping him mature spiritually and as an athlete. (OSV News photo/Philadelphiasportsdigest.com)
Eagles' Jeremiah Trotter Jr. calls Catholic school a forge of faith, champion spirit
Flannery O'Connor is seen in this 1962 photo. From March 21-23, 2025, a museum in Savannah, Ga., dedicated to her literary genius and fascinating personality celebrated the centennial of her birth with socials, specialty tours, author talks and a live band, culminating in an annual birthday party event that will include vendors, games and an O'Connor look-alike contest. (OSV News photo/AP Photo, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Joe McTyre via PBS)
Flannery O'Connor's 100th birthday parties celebrate author's quirks, talents - and love of birds
Gambling dice are seen in front of Sports Illustrated and 888 Holdings logos in this illustration taken June 24, 2021. (OSV News illustration/Dado Ruvic, Reuters)
Gambling on sports is now everywhere, but should Catholics support it?
An image of "The Deposition of Christ," recently attributed to Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, is seen in this photo released by the Vatican March 17, 2025. The previously lost painting will be on display in the Vatican Museums. (CNS photo/courtesy Governorate of Vatican City State)
Vatican unveils 'lost' Renaissance painting of the deposition of Christ
A young woman prays with a rosary following Ash Wednesday Mass at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Ariz., March 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
You're not too late (and neither are the ones late to Mass)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church needs to expand its safeguarding efforts to include the new threats and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence, top organizers of a Vatican conference said. "We are really currently in a war" on two fronts when it comes to protecting children from abuse and mistreatment, Joachim von Braun, president of the Pontifical Academy for Sciences, said at a Vatican news conference March 20. There is the traditional battleground that most safeguarding guidelines and
Speakers: Church has role in fight against AI-generated exploitation
A man lights a candle during a vigil at Zocalo square, in Mexico City, Mexico March 15, 2025, for the victims of the clandestine mass grave recently found in Teuchitlan, in the state of Jalisco. Mexico's Catholic leaders prayed for the country's missing and urged the population of the country and their political leaders to listen to victims of violence amid outrage over the discovery of mass graves and ovens for cremating bodies on a drug cartel compound. (OSV News photo/Seila Montes, Reuters)
Mexican Catholics urge officials to 'listen to victims' amid grisly discovery of mass graves
A screengrab shows two characters welcoming a player in St. Peter's Square in front of the basilica in a new interactive game, "Peter is Here: AI for Cultural Heritage," released worldwide March 18, 2025, by Microsoft's Minecraft Education in collaboration with the Vatican and St. Peter's Basilica. (CNS photo/courtesy of Microsoft/Mojang Studios)
St. Peter's Basilica becomes a 'fixable,' explorable Minecraft world
A prayer card of the Hozana ministry encourages the faithful to submit their prayer intentions online. Hozana gathered prayer intentions from Catholics around the world to bring to the Shrine of Our Lady of Graces in Cotignac on March 19, 2025, the feast of St. Joseph. The shrine is known for its connection to both Our Lady and St. Joseph. (OSV News illustration/Cassandre Verhelst, courtesy Hozana)
St. Joseph prayer intentions hit record with collaboration of French shrine, internet app
According to a March 13, 2025, notice posted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Michigan-based Chews Life has received 92 reports of the safety snap clasp detaching, with some 5,700 affected units. No injuries have been reported. (OSV News photo/U.S. Consumer Safety Commission via Facebook)
Some Chews Life rosaries, teethers recalled for choking hazard
Father David Michael, 31, who posts humorous videos about his life as a priest alongside simple explanations of different areas of Catholic teaching, is pictured in an undated photo. His videos have earned millions of views on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. (OSV News photo/via Father David Michael)
Priest influencer on evangelizing through humor, social media pitfalls and advice to Gen Z
Pope Francis is seen in the chapel of his suite of rooms at Rome's Gemelli hospital March 16, 2025. The Vatican press office said the 88-year-old pope concelebrated Mass that morning. (CNS photo/Vatican Press Office)
Vatican releases first photo of Pope Francis since his hospitalization
A 2017 photo shows a statue of St. Joseph in Rome. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
St. Joseph: A patron for us all
Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini, preacher of the papal household, leads a meditation during a Lenten retreat for cardinals and senior officials of the Roman Curia in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican March 14, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Papal preacher: Neglecting Mass means losing sight of heaven
Certified executive chef Jim Churches, president of the American Culinary Federation's Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association and a member of St. Patrick Parish in Brighton, Mich., is seen in this undated photo. Churches told OSV News that with planning, flexibility and creativity, Lenten meals can engage the entire family and every palate. (OSV News photo/Courtesy of Jim Churches)
Lenten food 'doesn't mean boring,' says Catholic chef
St. Nicholas' Basilica in Amsterdam is seen in an undated photo. A Mass celebrated March 8, 2025, marked its elevation to co-cathedral, a "birthday gift" from Pope Francis for the Dutch capital's 750th anniversary. (OSV News photo/courtesy Katholiek Nieuwsblad)
Amsterdam unwraps papal 'birthday gift': St. Nicholas Basilica is named co-cathedral
A man and woman pray by the statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome's Gemelli Hospital March 14, 2025, where Pope Francis was admitted Feb. 14. The 88-year-old pontiff marked one month in the hospital March 14, where he is being treated for double pneumonia, with signs in recent days that indicate he is gradually recovering. (OSV News photo/Antonio Denti, Reuters)
After a monthlong hospitalization, pope's condition considered stable
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Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini, preacher of the papal household, leads the Lenten retreat for cardinals and senior officials of the Roman Curia in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican March 12, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope's chest x-ray confirms his improvement, doctors say
Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia gestures during his talk at the University of Notre Dame's 2025 Ukrainian Studies Conference in Indiana about the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia. The event was a collaboration between Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute (part of the Keough School of Global Affairs) and Ukrainian Catholic University, of which Metropolitan Gudziak is president. (OSV News photo/Matt Cashore, courtesy University of Notre Dame)
Gudziak: Ukraine 'can give America hope to not be afraid' of living out Gospel call
A file photo shows a statue of St. Therese of Lisieux holding a crucifix and flowers is seen at St. Anne Mission Church in Acomita, N.M., on the Acoma Indian reservation. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Celebrating the four women doctors of the church
People pray near a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome's Gemelli hospital where people have left drawings, votive candles, rosaries, flowers, cards for Pope Francis March 8, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope follows Lenten retreat from hospital; his condition remains stable
A woman stands near a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 6, 2025, looking at messages and drawings for Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized there since Feb. 14, receiving treatment for double pneumonia. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Like St. John Paul II, pope shows untiring will to serve, says cardinal
Elizabeth Hauger, left, Kathryn Marszalek and Carrie Pfeiffer give the peace sign during the Warriors for Kathryn event Feb. 3, 2023. (OSV News photo/Handout)
Daughter's rare disorder leads Indiana family on faith journey with 'divine connections'
Parishioners participate in a reenactment of the Stations of the Cross at St. John of God Church in Central Islip, N.Y., on Good Friday, April 15, 2022. Most members of the parish trace their ancestral roots to Central America, where the living Way of the Cross is a solemn Holy Week tradition. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
The Way of the Cross: Not only for Lent
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