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Attendees at the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Atlanta take part in a one-mile "Pilgrimage of Hope" through downtown early Aug. 14, 2025, calling out the nation's "systemic injustice" with regard to racism, migration and the climate crisis. For LCWR's 2026 assembly in Orlando, Fla., Pope Leo XIV sent a video message Aug. 12 encouraging LCWR members to foster vocations to religious life in the United States. LCWR is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its founding at the
Pope Leo XIV urges sisters to foster vocations to religious life in United States
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., is pictured in a July 11, 2018, file photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Springfield in Illinois)
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Pope Leo XIV greets a baby and family before his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 12, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo says Sunday is 'foundation and kernel' of liturgical year
A bookshelf is seen in this file photo. Love of books is necessary for a book club, but there are other important qualities, including good character, a love of truth and a commitment to faith. (OSV News photo/Margaret Murray)
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A father and daughter kneel in prayer before a reliquary holding first-class relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque at Denver's Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Aug. 3, 2026. (OSV News photo/André Escaleira Jr., Denver Catholic)
2 apostles of Sacred Heart meet in Denver; thousands venerate St. Margaret Mary Alacoque relics
Pilgrims from South Korea celebrate Aug. 3, 2025, as Pope Leo XIV confirmed Aug. 3-8, 2027, as the dates for World Youth Day in South Korea. His confirmation came the day of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of Youth at the Tor Vergata open-air field. (OSV photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul to be 'a celebration of hope,' archbishop says
Members of the Eagle Scout Court of Honor unit sponsored by the Knights of Peter Claver in Minneapolis are seen in a July 30, 2026, photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Catholic Scouting America)
Catholic Scouting's 'Novena Prayer for America' is patriotic petition for country's future
A woman prays at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park, Md., on July 28, 2026. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
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A file photo shows voters marking their ballots at a Ferguson, Mo., polling station on Election Day. Bishop Daniel E. Garcia, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation, said in an Aug. 5, 2026, statement that the Anniversary of Voting Rights Act -- signed into law on Aug. 6, 1965 -- is a time to reflect on participation in democracy. (OSV News photo/Lawrence Bryant, Reuters)
Anniversary of Voting Rights Act time to reflect on participation in democracy, Bishop Garcia says
Peter Cooney (right) and his brother Thomas, who co-founded Acutis AI, a website platform designed as a Catholic alternative to mainstream AI systems that offers responses rooted in Church teaching, are seen in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy of AcutisAI) Editors: Best quality available
Acutis AI co-founder explores 'Magnifica Humanitas' and pope's call for digital disciples
Pope Leo XIV high fives a young man at Piazza Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, Italy, Aug. 6, 2026, during the pope's pastoral visit to Assisi, which included a meeting with young people. (OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media)Pope Leo XIV high fives a young man at Piazza Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, Italy, Aug. 6, 2026, during the pope's pastoral visit to Assisi, which included a meeting with young people. (OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media)
In Assisi, Pope Leo urges young people to become 'new saints'
A church window depicts the transfiguration of Christ, in which Moses and Elijah are seen with Jesus in a glorified state before the apostles Peter, James and John. (OSV News photo/Crosiers)
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Pope Leo XIV smiles during his weekly general audience inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 5, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope encourages Catholics to deepen prayer through Liturgy of the Hours
This is a 17th-century painting of St. Augustine by artist Philippe de Champaigne. The saint lived in the years A.D. 354-430 and is considered a Church father and doctor of the Church. (OSV News photo/Public Domain, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
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Joseph Capizzi, former dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, was appointed the new director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame effective July 1, 2026, succeeding theologian John Cavadini after his 25-year tenure. (OSV News photo/University of Notre Dame)
Notre Dame McGrath Institute to meet 'novel' opportunities in Church life under Capizzi
Bishop Kevin Kenney of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis joins others gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul Oct. 3, 2025, for the annual Candlelight Rosary Procession. On July 15, 2026, Bishop Kenney announced his lung cancer diagnosis in a video to the faithful alongside Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda and Bishop Michael J. Izen. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Prayers promised as Minnesota auxiliary bishop prepares for cancer treatment
Archbishop John Francis Noll, the founder of Our Sunday Visitor newspaper, is pictured in an undated photo. OSV was founded in 1912 by then-Father Noll, an Indiana priest who early in his ministry felt a call to expand evangelization efforts among Catholic faithful and non-Catholics alike through Catholic publications. (OSV News photo/OSV file)
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Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor is seen in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy 11th Street Lot)
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Benedictine Father James Raber, a college chaplain at the North Carolina-based Belmont Abbey College, greets people after celebrating Mass Sept. 11, 2025, for U.S. medical volunteers at the Institute for Latin American Concern campus in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. (OSV News photo/Tom Tracy)
Ignatian retreat campus in the Caribbean serves as hub for medical missions
Pope Leo XIV and Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, listen as Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and a 164-member children's choir sing for the pontiff at the "Canticle of Peace" event in the Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo on the evening of July 29, 2026. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
Pope Leo XIV at Andrea Bocelli concert: Music's beauty points us to God
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chair of the USCCB Committee on Pro-life Activities, are pictured in a combination photo. In a letter posted July 27, 2026, the bishops issued a nationwide call to prayer and action from now to the end of October, Respect Life Month, to stop the spread of abortion pills. (OSV News photo/courtesy Oklahoma City Archdiocese/Toledo Diocese)
US bishops ready nationwide prayer and action effort amid rising abortion rate
Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Liberta in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, July 26, 2026. He appealed for dialogue, diplomacy and prayers for a just peace in the Holy Land and the Middle East. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
Pope Leo appeals for dialogue, diplomacy, prayers for just peace in Holy Land, Middle East
Andrea Bocelli performs during the World Meeting on Human Fraternity in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 10, 2023. Bocelli will sing for Pope Leo XIV with a choir of 160 children from the Holy Land, Uganda and Italy in the Vatican Gardens in Castel Gandolfo on July 29, 2026, in a special performance organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Andrea Bocelli to sing for Pope Leo with international children's choir
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