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Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda speaks during an interfaith prayer service for the Annunciation Catholic community, following a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church on Wednesday, at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Minn., August 28, 2025. (OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters)
Archbishop Hebda is praying for a 'healing of memories' following Annunciation shooting
Doctors with arms crossed
Catholic doctor describes her journey to practicing faith and medicine in harmony
Pat DeSilvey, a Catholic from Biloxi, Miss., tries to salvage items from his destroyed home Sept. 9, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Aug. 29, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the deadly storm, which made landfall in the Gulf Coast region. The powerful storm claimed 1,400 lives, and caused widespread devastation, particularly in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Hurricane Katrina 20th anniversary a call to racial equity, justice, say bishops
Bishop Paul Tighe, a top official at the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education, poses while speaking to OSV News following his address, "Theology and Mission in an Age of Artificial Intelligence" to the Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology at Trinity College Dublin Aug. 23, 2025. (OSV News photo/Sarah Mac Donald)
Vatican official warns of AI’s hidden costs to environment, work and society
Pope Leo XIV gives his blessing to visitors and pilgrims at the conclusion of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Hope is knowing that God is near and that love will win, pope says
A girl holds a candle during a vigil at Lynnhurst Park in Minneapolis Aug. 27, 2025, following a shooting earlier in the day at Annunciation Church. A shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a the school's church and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two children and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called "absolutely incomprehensible." (OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters)
Nation reels as Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis leaves 2 dead, 17 injured
A migrant is detained by federal immigration officers at the U.S. immigration court in the Manhattan borough of New York City July 25, 2025. (OSV News photo/David 'Dee' Delgado, Reuters)
ICE detentions in immigration courts prompt alarm from Catholic advocates
Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati are pictured in a combination photo. The Vatican announced June 13, 2025, that the canonization ceremony for Blessed Acutis and Blessed Frassati will take place Sept. 7. (OSV News photo/courtesy Sainthood Cause of Carlo Acutis and CNS files)
Making saints: How does the canonization process work?
A young Sudanese cholera patient lies on a bed at a United Nations-run makeshift clinic in the town of Tawila in north Darfur, Sudan, Aug. 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Mohammed Jamal, Reuters)
Amid conflict, cholera outbreak accelerates hunger and starvation in Sudan
Pope Leo XIV greets participants in the International Catholic Legislators Network during a meeting in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 23, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Catholic legislators must help build 'city of God,' pope says
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, an Italian who was a struggling student and who excelled in mountain climbing, is seen in an undated photo. He had complete faith in God and persevered through college, dedicating himself to helping the poor and supporting church social teaching. He died at age 24 and was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1990. Blessed Frassati will be canonized Sept. 7, 2025, along with Blessed Carlo Acutis. (CNS file photo)
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati shows how to 'be holy in the normalcy of our lives'
Members of the Georgetown Ministry Center assist Shelley Byars, 47, a homeless woman, in Washington Aug. 15, 2025. President Donald Trump announced Aug. 11 he was placing the District of Columbia police "under direct federal control," activating the National Guard and getting rid of homeless encampments in an effort to combat crime in the district. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)
Ministries to DC homeless share concerns about their welfare amid encampment removal
An image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, known as the Black Madonna, is seen on and Aug. 16, 2025 photograph. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims walk every year in August from all corners of Poland to the Marian shrine known as Jasna Góra, in Czestochowa, Poland (OSV News photo/Paulina Guzik)
On the road to Our Lady: How pilgrimage taught me the power of community
Pope Leo XIV talks to visitors during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope sets Aug. 22 as day to pray, fast for peace in Ukraine, Holy Land
French Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille, who is president of the French bishops' conference, speaks at a news conference at the Latin Patriarchate headquarters in Jerusalem Aug, 19, 2025, during his visit to the Holy Land. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)
Cardinal: When all hope seems to disappear In Holy Land, hope of Christ's resurrection remains
Pope Leo XIV greets a child dressed in liturgical vestments inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 20, 2025, after his weekly general audience. The pope visited pilgrims gathered in the basilica to offer his blessing, as the Paul VI hall had reached full capacity. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Christ's love is stronger than hatred, pope says at audience
The faithful pray as a 19th-century silver statue of Mary is carried in a procession outside of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Aug. 15, 2025. For the first time since its reopening in December 2024, the cathedral marked the feast of the Assumption with a solemn outdoor procession Aug. 15, that drew as many as 3,400 faithful who filled the streets of the Ile de la Cité to honor Mary. The tradition was interrupted for five years by the cathedral's post-fire restoration. (OSV News photo/courtesy Antoine Mull
Paris celebrates its queen on the feast of the Assumption
Pope Leo XIV shares a moment with guests assisted by the Albano diocesan Caritas agency during a luncheon at the Borgo Laudato Si’ in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Aug. 17, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Burn with 'fire' of God's love, pope says at Mass and lunch with the poor
People hold newspapers in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025, reporting on the election of Pope Leo XIV, who is a dual U.S.-Peruvian citizen. Formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the prelate was elected pope May 8 at the Vatican, becoming the first American pope in history. As an Augustinian priest, then-Father Prevost spent many years as a missionary in Peru and later as Chiclayo's bishop. (OSV News photo/Sebastian Castaneda, Reuters)
New tourist route in honor of Pope Leo XIV to draw visitors to Peru
Pope Leo XIV greets María Lía Zervino, a member of the council of the Laudato Si' Movement, and Lorna Gold, executive director, after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 28, 2025. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media/Catholic Press Photo)
At 100 days, Pope Leo's papacy rooted in St. Augustine, reflection, unity
A statue of Mary with a crown, and a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe are pictured at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Ariz., May 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Images of Mary: Can we find the Blessed Mother in the Old Testament?
A drone photo shows the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington May 31, 2024. The university announced Aug. 11, 2025, that in October its publishing division will release in print and Kindle editions Pope Leo XIV's dissertation, which he defended in 1987 for his doctoral degree in canon law. (OSV News photo/courtesy Catholic University of America)
Catholic University of America Press to publish Pope Leo's dissertation
Bishop Chad W. Zielinski of New Ulm, Minn., third from left, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va., chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, are pictured with the "People of Life" recipients in Arlington Aug. 11. Pictured are Daniel Marker, and Susan Young, receiving posthumously for their parents Mike and Rita Marker of Steubenville, Ohio, Judy Haag of Eden Valley, Minn., and Valerie Washington of Baltimore, executive direc
People of Life' awards honor 4 pro-life advocates for leadership legacy
A woman throws a wreath into the water as Bishop Richard F. Reidy of Norwich, Conn., celebrates the Holy Cross Community's annual Blessing of the Fleet in Stonington, Conn., July 27, 2025. (OSV News photo/Ryan Blessing, Four County Catholic)
Calm seas, gentle breeze greet Connecticut bishop, faithful for 'Blessing of the Fleet'
Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur, a World War II chaplain who gave his life while saving others on a Japanese prison ship, is seen in this undated photo. He died Sept. 7, 1944, when a U.S. submarine torpedoed the Japanese ship that he and over 700 fellow prisoners of war were aboard in the Indian Ocean. A priest of the Diocese of Lafayette, La., he is a candidate for sainthood and has the title "Servant of God." (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Lafayette) Editor's note: Best image available.
Father Lafleur: Forgotten story of chaplain to POWs in WWII and his 'incredible selflessness'
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