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Volunteers serve food during the 20th annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner Nov. 23, 2019, at St. Mary Parish in Menasha, Wis. (OSV News photo/Brad Birkholz)
The meaning of Thanksgiving
Artist Patricia Brintle writes an icon of St. Kateri Tekakwitha for St. James Cathedral in Seattle. In May, the archdiocese asked her to create the icon of St. Kateri, which she completed over the summer and sent to Seattle in September. After being blessed on Oct. 19, 2025, the icon has been touring local Native American Catholic communities before being placed in its permanent home on a wall of the cathedral. (OSV News photo/courtesy Patricia Brintle)
Indigenous elders, New York artist, Seattle cathedral join to create St. Kateri icon
A boat is seen near Combu Island with the city of Belem, Brazil, in the background Nov. 9, 2025. Belem is hosting the U.N. Climate Conference, COP30. (CNS photo/Sergio Moraes, COP30)
'Creation is crying out,' pope says in new message to COP30
Pope Leo XIV greets Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, during a meeting at the Vatican with priests who staff nunciatures and other Vatican diplomatic missions around the world Nov. 17, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope asks priests in diplomatic corps to be witnesses of hope
Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin delivers a homily after announcing the elevation of St. Mary's Pro Cathedral to formal cathedral status at a Mass to mark the bicentenary of the church's dedication in 1825 and the feast of the city's patron, St. Laurence O'Toole, on Nov. 14, 2025. The Catholics of Dublin have a dedicated cathedral for the first time in 500 years following Pope Leo XIV's decision on Nov. 14 to designate St. Mary's as the Irish capital's official Catholic cathedral. (OSV News photo/courtes
Catholics in Dublin now have a dedicated cathedral for first time in 500 years
A screenshot of the film "Sacré Coeur," directed by Steven and Sabrina Gunnell and released in France Oct. 1, 2025, is seen, picturing St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus was showing his heart between 1673 and 1675 in Paray-le-Monial, in the French region of Burgundy. With more than 400,000 viewers since the film's release as of Nov. 14, and counting, the new film about the Sacred Heart of Jesus has become an unexpected box office hit in France. (OSV News/courtesy SAJE)
Sacred Heart film breaks all records in secular France for viewership and public backlash
Pope Leo XIV waves to students in a lecture hall at Rome's Pontifical Lateran University after giving a formal speech to professors, staff and a small group of students in the university's main hall Nov. 14, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Be prophetic sign of communion, fraternity, pope tells Lateran University
Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is seen in a file photo from Jan. 21, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Nuncio in Britain says pope won't overturn restrictions on old Latin Mass
Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne, right, speaks on Nov. 5, 2025, during a conference titled "Deepening Communion in a Polarized World," co-sponsored by St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad and the Glenmary Home Missioners religious order. The conference took place at the seminary. Also taking part in the conference session are conference facilitator Amy Uleman, left, and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)
How to 'deepen' communion in increasingly polarized world is focus of Indiana conference
Pope Leo XIV speaks to participants in a conference on "Mysticism, Mystical Phenomena and Holiness," in the Vatican audience hall Nov. 13, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Authentic mysticism is a spiritual gift that bears good fruit, pope says
Prelates attend a Nov. 11, 2025, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Unity in teaching, mission, and concern for immigrants resounds at bishops' fall assembly
A photo of earth from space with visible lights
Artificial intelligence and lived discipleship
A breviary, or the liturgical book containing the Liturgy of the Hours, is seen in this illustration photo. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Vatican gives final approval to new Liturgy of the Hours edition coming in 2027
France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, France's Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin stand next to Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo and France's President Emmanuel Macron as they pay tribute to victims at intersection of Faubourg du Temple and Boulevard Jules Ferry near “La Bonne Biere” cafe in Paris Nov. 13, 2025, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks. (OSV News photo/Ludovis Marin, pool via Reuters)
Paris commemorates 10 years since terror attacks with Masses, church bells ringing
France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, France's Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin stand next to Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo and France's President Emmanuel Macron as they pay tribute to victims at intersection of Faubourg du Temple and Boulevard Jules Ferry near “La Bonne Biere” cafe in Paris Nov. 13, 2025, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks. (OSV News photo/Ludovis Marin, pool via Reuters)
Paris commemorates 10 years since terror attacks with Masses, church bells ringing
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, left, looks on moments after being elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during a Nov. 11, 2025, session of the fall general assembly of the USCCB in Baltimore. His three-year term begins at the close of the Nov. 11-13 plenary. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Archbishop Coakley, Bishop Flores elected president and vice president of USCCB
Bishops from around the country gather at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore Nov. 10, 2025, for the opening Mass of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' fall plenary assembly. (OSV News photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
Bishops tell pope they'll continue to stand with migrants, defend right to worship freely
Agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detain a man after conducting a raid at the Cedar Run apartment complex in Denver Feb. 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Kevin Mohatt, Reuters)
U.S. bishops approve ‘special pastoral message’ on immigration
The Vatican Dicastery for Communication released the documentary "Leo from Chicago," which chronicles the pope's humble beginnings in Dolton, Ill., as well as his early years as an Augustinian. Released Nov. 10, 2025, the documentary was produced by the Dicastery for Communication, along with the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Apostolado El Sembrador Nueva Evangelización (ESNE), a Spanish-language Catholic TV apostolate. (OSV News screenshot/Vatican News - English YouTube)
'Leo from Chicago:' Vatican releases new documentary on pope's early years
Phoenix Bishop John P. Dolan is pictured during Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 27, 2020. Bishop Dolan gave the keynote at an international conference on mental health in Rome Nov. 5 and 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Stefano Dal Pozzolo)
Love is key to church's mental health ministry, says bishop who lost family to suicide
The poster for the international congress, "AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity," sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life and the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, is seen Nov. 10, 2025, outside the Jesuit headquarters in Rome where the congress was being held. (CNS photo/Cindy Wooden)
Pope asks for extra care when using AI in medicine
Bishop John Bogna Bakeni of Maiduguri, Nigeria, speaks Nov. 6, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland, at a press conference ahead of the 17th Day of Solidarity with the Persecuted Church on Nov. 9. "Every day is a grace, because we never know what will happen in the next hour," Bishop Bakeni told OSV News about the situation of Christians in his country. (OSV News/courtesy Polish bishops' conference)
Bishop: Survival of Christian communities in Nigeria depends on security, justice
Pope Leo XIV gives his homily from the "cathedra" or bishop's chair at Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran Nov. 9, 2025, the feast of the basilica's dedication. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Dig deep, work patiently to keep church on solid foundation, pope says
A yellow 'X' marks areas of Muhammad Ali Louisville International Airport in Kentucky Nov. 5, 2025, that were closed following the crash of a UPS MD-11 cargo jet. The UPS cargo plane crashed and exploded Nov. 4 in a massive fireball while taking off from the company’s global aviation hub in Louisville, killing at least nine people and injuring 11, authorities said. (OSV News photo/Michael Clevenger, USA Today Network via Imagn Images via Reuters)
Archbishop prays for comfort, peace, healing after deadly crash of UPS cargo plane
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