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Minnesota priest describes weeping at altar amid powerful Eucharistic experience
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen is pictured preaching from a pulpit in an undated file photo. On March 25, 2026, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced the beatification of Archbishop Sheen will take place on Sept. 24 in St. Louis. (OSV News file photo)
Fulton Sheen: A teacher of virtue
Pope Leo XIV blows out a candle as he receives an angel cake from Vatican employees to mark his 71st birthday during his visit to inaugurate the exhibition "AQVA. Catastrophe and Wonder” at the Vatican Library Sept. 14, 2026. As the first U.S.-born pope marks his birthday, a Catholic scholar told OSV News he sees a potential shift toward "more hopeful perceptions of and associations with Catholicism" now than in the past two decades because of Pope Leo's priorities and his Americanism. (OSV News photo/Simon
As Pope Leo marks birthday, more positive views of US Catholics may be on horizon, says scholar
Pope Leo XIV looks at a book as he attends the inauguration of the exhibition "AQVA. Catastrophe and Wonder" at the Vatican Library Sept. 14, 2026. The exhibition is the opening chapter of a five-year cycle exploring water as both a life-giving and destructive force. (CNS photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo visits Vatican Library on his birthday, announces new building in Vatican City
Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of Quelimane, Mozambique, is seen in an undated photo. The bishop was found fatally shot at his residence in the early hours of June 6, 2026, and the bishops' conference of Mozambique said Sept. 4 that it has yet to receive any details on his murder. (OSV News photo/CPP)
Mozambique bishops say questions remain unanswered 3 months after bishop's murder
New York Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks delivers his homily during a vigil memorial Mass Sept. 10, 2026, at St. Patrick's Cathedral to honor memory of hundreds of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that 25 years ago brought down the World Trade Center's twin towers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the collapse of New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania when terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes to attack the U.S. (OSV News photo/Steven Schwankert, The G
At vigil Mass on eve of 9/11, New York archbishop emphasizes healing, peace
A woman prays during a Mass hosted by the Filipino Catholic Apostolate of the Archdiocese of New York at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City May 24, 2026. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
I brought a heart full of fury with me to Mass. I left it there.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Franciscan Father Gerardo Antonio Vargas Cruz, seen in an undated photo, as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico. The appointment was announced Sept. 8, 2026, at the Vatican. Bishop-designate Vargas is currently vicar for clergy of the Archdiocese of San Juan. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of San Juan)
Pope Leo XIV names Franciscan friar as coadjutor of Puerto Rico diocese
Construction workers Oct. 5, 2006, remove a 20-foot cross formed by steel beams that was recovered from the rubble after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks brought down the World Trade Center in New York. Twenty-five years after the 9/11 terrorism attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people, Catholic family members who lost loved ones that day have credited their faith with getting through the losses. (OSV News photo/Chip East, Reuters)
'Etched in our minds': Bishops offer Masses, reflections on landmark anniversary of 9/11 attacks
Indianapolis Archbishop Charles C. Thompson swings the censer over the altar as he celebrates a Mass to welcome pilgrims at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis July 16, 2024, just ahead of the National Eucharistic Congress. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has provided a dispensation to Catholics who fear being targeted by immigration enforcement going to and from Sunday Mass regardless of their legal status. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Indianapolis archbishop grants Mass dispensation amid ICE detention fears
Twelve of the 13 U.S. bishops in Rome for the Vatican-sponsored courses for new bishops pose for a photo on the roof of the Pontifical North American College in Rome Sept. 10, 2025. Pictured, from left to right, are: Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Timothy J. O'Malley; Auxiliary Bishop Kevin T. Kenney of St. Paul and Minneapolis; Bishop Scott E. Bullock of Rapid City, South Dakota; Bishop-designate Ralph B. O'Donnell of Jefferson City, Missouri; Chicago Auxiliary Bishop John S. Siemianowski; Bishop-designate Thoma
Find room in your heart for everyone, pope tells new bishops
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Genazzano, Italy, near Rome, Sept. 7, 2026, the eve of the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (CNS photo/Stefano Spaziani, pool)
Pope Leo XIV asks Our Lady of Good Counsel for aid to make 'courageous and wise decisions'
Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg, who is the special representative for refugee issues for the German Bishops' Conference, looks through the U.S.-Mexico border fence Aug. 25, 2026, after returning from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. (OSV News photo/Daniela Elpers, courtesy German Bishops Conference)
German archbishop says US-Mexico border wall recalls Berlin Wall, warns against loss of humanity
Then-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen speaks inside of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rochester, NY, the day of his installation as the sixth bishop of Rochester Dec. 15, 1966. Catholics in the Diocese of Rochester will soon have a physical link to Venerable Sheen: A first-class relic of the soon-to-be-beatified cleric, who led the Rochester Diocese as its sixth bishop (1966-69), is being gifted to the diocese by Archbishop Sheen's native Diocese of Peoria, Ill. (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Rochester Archives)
Rochester Diocese to receive first-class Archbishop Sheen relic
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori greets people gathered for Mass Aug. 30, 2026, at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights. Concelebrating was Father Robert Fitzpatrick, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and former pastor of Corpus Christi in Roseville, who has celebrated state fair Masses since 2014. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Archbishop Lori of Baltimore enjoys the 'very wonderful world' of Minnesota State Fair
Pope Leo XIV speaks during a private audience with members of the Conference of the Latin Bishops of the Arab Regions at the Vatican Sept. 3, 2026. Pope Leo spoke about the "precious presence" of the small Christian community in the Middle East. (OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV says Christians in the Middle East offer a 'precious testimony for the entire Church'
A man carries the body of of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl during her funeral in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 24, 2026. She was shot in the back while eating inside her family's tent and later died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to medics and relatives. A network of Catholic priests in Africa has become the latest group to declare genocide in Gaza, as the United Nations reports continuing airstrikes, deaths and injuries, amid a shaky ceasefire in the area. (OSV News photo/Ramadan Abed, Reute
Catholic priests network calls out genocide by Israel in Gaza
A Carmelite Sister comforts a resident Aug. 21, 2026, at St. Patrick’s Residence in Naperville, Ill. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and the Chicago Province of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and an Illinois pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state's physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide. (OSV News photo/courtesy Becket)
Cardinal Cupich, women religious, Catholic pharmacist sue Illinois over assisted suicide law
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, pictured in an undated photo, is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. Groups from across the U.S. are planning pilgrimages to St. Louis for the Sept. 24, 2026, beatification of Archbishop Sheen. (OSV News photo/Sheen Foundation)
Inspired by the zeal of the venerable Fulton Sheen, a man who lived life to the fullest
Father Patrick Seo, left, director of priestly vocations in the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., joins Father George Joseph, pastor of Holy Trinity Parish in Westfield, Dominic Auricchio, Maria Auricchio, Maximo Auricchio, Neal Auricchio and Vincenzo Auricchio at a ceremony this summer to present Dominic, 13, a plaque and $1,500 for his first-place essay in the archdiocese’s 2026 Cardinal Joseph Tobin Essay and Video Contest. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Newark)
A dream, strong faith and a health struggle inspire teen's winning essay on priesthood
A drone view of a broken bridge and damaged houses after the flash floods and mudslide, at Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, Aug. 28, 2026. (OSV News photo/Francis Mascarenhas, Reuters)
Catholic agencies respond to Nepal floods, as U.S. bishop calls for greater international aid
A therapist assists a child during activities of the Maltese Center for Assistance to Disabled Children and Their Families in an undated photo. The center in Kraków, Poland, is operated by the Foundation of the Order of Malta. (OSV News photo/courtesy Maltese Center for Assistance to Disabled Children and Their Families)
A name on the wall, a gift to a child: Polish Americans invited to turn memory into mercy
Local judges gather at St. Anthony Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oct. 15, 2025, for the annual Red Mass of the St. Thomas More Society of South Florida. (OSV New photo/Tom Tracy)
Red Mass, Blue Mass: How 'color' Masses serve professionals
American country music star Dolly Parton performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, during the Glastonbury Festival June 29, 2014. The iconic singer-songwriter-actress, whose glittering country music stardom was matched by her pop fame and popular parallel careers in film and TV, died Aug. 25, 2026, at age 80, after a brief battle with cancer. (OSV News photo/Cathal McNaughton, Reuters)
East Tennessee diocese mourns Dolly Parton as 'one of our own'
Steve Brock with the Order of St. Lazarus chats with EPIC Ministry members Aug. 21, 2026, who were giving out propane and propane tanks to residents in Hawaii island’s Kau district so they could cook during the extended power outage after Hurricane Lala barreled across the Hawaiian Islands Aug. 15-16. (OSV News photo/Lisa Dahm, Hawaii Catholic Herald)
Faithful across Honolulu Diocese rally after devastating hurricane
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