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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. The month of May is devoted to Mary and is traditionally celebrated with a crowning and praying of the rosary. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Study: Devotion to Mary has significant impact on discerning, sustaining vocations
A statue of St. Thomas More, patron of statesmen, politicians and members of the legal profession, is seen at St. Thomas More Church in Hauppauge, N.Y. Lord chancellor of England under King Henry VIII, St. Thomas More was beheaded in 1535 on charges of treason after refusing to recognize the king as the supreme head of the Church of England. Under a proposal announced July 6, 2025, the Church of England is weighing a plan to disinter St. Thomas More's skull and place it in a shrine for veneration. (OSV News
Church of England weighs proposal to place St. Thomas More's skull in shrine for veneration
Demonstrators march following U.S attack on Iran's nuclear sites and against Iran-Israel conflict, at Times Square in New York City, U.S. June 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Caitlin Ochs, Reuters)
80 years after 'Trinity,' Catholic-hosted gathering calls to abolish nuclear weapons
Pope Leo XIV is seen in a video message aired by RAI Uno July 15, 2025. The message, recorded from the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, was played before the start of an annual charity soccer match, which was raising money this year for a project helping families of patients receiving long-term care at the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome. (CNS photo/screengrab from RAI Uno/RAI News video)
Stop the hatred; humanity is at stake, Pope Leo says in video message
Palestinian Christians attend Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City after the death of Pope Francis was announced by the Vatican, April 21, 2025. Father Gabriel Romanelli, pastor of Holy Family Church, admitted his flock is exhausted by war and a severe lack of food. The priest spoke to Vatican Radio amid tragedy after tragedy unfolding in the enclave, with at least 32 people killed by Israeli strikes only on July 13, including six children at a water collection point. (OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Re
Gaza's Christian community persevering amid hardship and hope
Sister Joaquina Costa of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, director of the Mother Cabrini League, is seen working on her computer July 7, 2025, at the league's office on the Northside of Chicago. (OSV News photo/Simone Orendain)
Mother Cabrini's sisters carry on missionary's zeal to 'heal the wounds of humanity'
Aloysius Ford, who has Down syndrome, and kindergarten classmate Pierce Donohue play "Go Fish" during class at St. Patrick Catholic School in Tacoma, Wash., May 21, 2025. (OSV News photo/Stephen Brashear)
When it comes to serving students with disabilities, how are Catholic schools doing?
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors as he departs following his first Angelus prayer in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 13, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Caring for others, serving life is the 'supreme law,' pope says
Dion DiMucci, a longtime musician, troubadour, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and contemplative Catholic, is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Dion DiMucci)
Whatever the genre, Dion's music still focuses on life's larger questions
Blessed Solanus Casey is pictured taking a note from a woman who visited him at St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit in 1941. The Capuchin Franciscan friar kept dozens of notebooks filled with prayer requests and favors from the thousands who visited him each year. (OSV News photo/Archdiocese of Detroit)
Lessons from Blessed Solanus Casey, 'God's doorkeeper'
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass "for the care of creation" on the grounds of the Borgo Laudato Si' ecology center in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 9, 2025. The vestments Pope Leo is wearing were new and made by Chicago-based House of Hansen. (CNS photo/Cristian Gennari, pool)
Pope Leo wears Chicago-made vestments to July 9 'care of creation' Mass
Father Francesco Patton, the custos of the Holy Land, is seen Dec. 28, 2024, in the Franciscan Curia in Jerusalem. After nine years of service as custos, Father Patton has been succeeded in the role by Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, whose election was approved by Pope Leo XIV June 24, 2025. (OSV News photo/Matthew Lomanno)
Outgoing custos leaves with gratitude but a bittersweet longing for peace in Holy Land
 David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan star in a scene from the movie "Superman." The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG-13 - parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (OSV News photo/Jessica Miglio, Warner Bros.)
Movie Review: Superman
"NBC Nightly News" anchor and managing editor Tom Llamas speaks to students and faculty at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in Miami, his high school alma mater, during a "fireside chat" event May 1, 2025. He was joined by Cesar Conde, another Belen alumnus, who is chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, overseeing NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC. (OSV News photo/courtesy Belem High School)
NBC's Tom Llamas says Catholic education deepened his faith, pushed him to always do his best
Pope Leo XIV and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wave from the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, during their meeting July 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Ukraine religious leaders issue 'desperate cry' to world to end Russia's war
Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich uses a censer June 23, 2025, near a statue of St. Paul, the first of the 16 now-renovated statues that adorn the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral, as it is about to be lifted by crane, marking the last phase of reconstruction of the cathedral's roof, damaged by the April 2019 fire. (OSV News photo/courtesy David Bordes, Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris)
Notre Dame prepares to reopen towers' tour with return of famed statues of saints to rooftop
Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, MSpS, speaks July 5 on the flooding in Kerr County that has left at least 50 dead and many more missing. (OSV News photo/Screenshot via Catholic Television of San Antonio)
San Antonio Archbishop García-Siller asks for prayers, solidarity following Texas flooding tragedy
Pope Leo XIV greets Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, during a meeting at the Vatican June 5, 2025. The pope appointed Archbishop Verny president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, succeeding U.S. Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Safeguarding remains a top priority with new appointment, US cardinal says
First responders attend to a vehicle pulled from the water in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Kerrville, Texas, July 6, 2025. At least 82 people are dead and at least 41 more are missing after devastating flash floods slammed the Texas Hill Country, with water rescues taking place along the Guadalupe River, which rose rapidly early July 4 to the height of a two-story building. Among the missing were almost a dozen from Camp Mystic in Kerr County, a children's summer camp, officials said July 6. (OSV New
San Antonio archdiocese calls for prayers as at least 20 girls missing from Christian camp
One of the gardens of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, is seen May 29, 2025, the day Pope Leo XIV made a visit to the villa and the "Borgo Laudato Si'" project, which Pope Francis set up to promote ecology education. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
After 12 years, locals welcome pope back to his summer home
The childhood home of Pope Leo XIV is pictured in the Dolton suburb of Chicago May 9, 2025. The Village of Dolton intends to purchase the childhood home of Pope Leo, hoping to turn the property and its surroundings into a historical site. (OSV News photo/Carlos Osorio, Reuters)
Town officials vote to buy, renovate Pope Leo's childhood home as 'historical site'
Fourth-grade students are pictured in a file photo working on laptop computers at Monarch School in San Diego. An analysis from Pew Research Center published June 23, 2025, showed 57% of U.S. adults say they favor allowing public school teachers to lead their classes in prayers referencing God, while 52% support teachers leading prayers "that refer to Jesus." (OSV News photo/Mike Blake, Reuters)
Pew: Support for Christian prayer in public schools varies widely across US
Members of the cast and crew of the series, "The Chosen," pose for a picture in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome June 23, 2025. From left to right are: Actors George Xanthis, who portrays John; Vanessa Benavente, who portrays Jesus' mother Mary; Jonathan Roumie, who portrays Jesus; director Dallas Jenkins; and actor Elizabeth Tabish, who portrays Mary Magdalene. While Season 5 already streamed in the U.S., it was being released in select countries worldwide in July. (CNS photo/courtesy TheChosen.tv)
The Chosen's 'endgame' is to point people to Jesus, series' creator says
Pope Leo XIV poses for a photo with the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod during a meeting at the Vatican June 26, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
With pope's support, Vatican to publish document on synod's final phase
U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance pose with Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, far left, and Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, far right, during the signing of a peace agreement in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington June 27, 2025. (OSV News photo/Ken Cedeno, Reuters)
Congolese church leaders welcome US-brokered peace agreement, warn of its hidden costs
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