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Edmundo Reyes, co-founder of Real+True, gestures during a panel discussion titled "Bearers of Truth" June 26, 2025, at the Catholic Media Conference in Phoenix. Also pictured are Jeanette De Melo, strategic initiatives director for EWTN News; Gretchen R. Crowe, editor-in-chief of OSV News and immediate past president of the Catholic Media Association, and James Rogers, chief communications officer for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Experts: Catholic media witness to truth, Gospel and are at 'kairos moment' in church
Pope Leo XIV presents the pallium to Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2025, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The pallium, which symbolizes an archbishop’s authority and unity with the pope, is given to metropolitan archbishops. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Archbishops must promote unity, seek new ways to share Gospel, pope says
Actors dressed in historic clothes perform June 26, 2025, in front of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Paray-le-Monial as the French sanctuary southeast of Paris concludes the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of Jesus showing his heart to French Visitation religious sister, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. (OSV News photo/courtesy Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Paray-le-Monial)
Shrine celebrates 350 years since Jesus showed his heart to French nun as symbol of love
Mourners pay their respects as senior Democratic state assemblywoman Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, lie in state June 27, 2025, at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul. The couple was shot dead in their home in a Minneapolis suburb June 14. A funeral Mass for them was celebrated June 28 at at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. (OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters)
Slain Minnesota lawmaker, husband remembered for lives lived 'with purpose, meaning'
A file photo shows a family praying during Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. The Pew Research Center released a June 16, 2025, analysis of U.S. Catholic life. (OSV News photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard)
Almost half of U.S. adults have Catholic connection, but Mass makes difference in Catholic identity
This is the cover of "Joan of Arkansas" by Sarah Robsdottir. (OSV News photo/Voyage Comics & Publishing)
Novel puts Joan of Arc's heroic struggle into modern context
Violet McGraw as Cady in a scene in "M3GAN 2.0." 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/Geoffrey Short, Universal Pictures)
Movie Review: M3GAN 2.0
Pope Leo XIV ordains 32 priests during Mass on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Remain united, care for those who are lost, suffering, pope tells priests
Pope Leo XIV greets seminarians after leading a meditation in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 24, 2025, as part of the Jubilee of Seminarians. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Love with Christ's compassionate heart, Pope Leo tells seminarians
Smoke can be seen during a missile attack from Iran on Israel, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Violeta Santos Moura, Reuters)
Trump orders US attack on Iran nuclear sites, as Pope Leo, bishops plead for peace
Under a canopy, Pope Leo XIV carries the Eucharist in a monstrance during a Corpus Christi procession from Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran to the Basilica of St. Mary Major June 22, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope leads Corpus Christi procession through streets of Rome
A bald eagle and U.S. flag are seen in an illustration for religious liberty. (OSV News illustration/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review)
Religious freedom a 'sacred truth,' says teen contest winner
A statue of St. John Paul II, with flowers and candles at its base, is seen outside of Rome's Gemelli hospital in the early evening Feb. 15, 2025, the day after Pope Francis was admitted for tests and treatment of a respiratory tract infection. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Catholic doctor on physician assisted suicide and learning to carry each other's burdens
Pope Leo XIV is seen in a video interview with RAI Uno June 19, 2025, outside of Vatican Radio's transmission center at Santa Maria di Galeria outside of Rome, Italy, where he had made an impromptu visit. (CNS photo/screengrab from RAI Uno video)
Innocent people are dying; peace must be sought, pope says
Pope Leo XIV visits a field where the Vatican is studying setting up a solar farm on land surrounding the Vatican Radio shortwave transmission center at Santa Maria di Galeria outside of Rome June 19, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope visits Vatican Radio transmission center, site of possible solar farm
The monstrance is pictured during Eucharistic adoration at the July 18, 2024, second revival night of the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
How a Norbertine nun's visions led to the feast of Corpus Christi
Girls in traditional Polish attire throw flower petals as they take part in a Corpus Christi procession June 8, 2023, in Krakow. On June 19, 2025, cities, towns and villages held solemn Eucharistic processions, publicly professing belief in Christ's real presence in the Eucharist on the feast of Corpus Christ. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdioceses of Krakow)
Hundreds of thousands march in Poland's Corpus Christi processions
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)
Pope Leo XIV will escape Rome's heat in July by going to papal villa
Pope Leo XIV blesses a woman in St. Peter's Square after his general audience at the Vatican June 18, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Jesus invites Christians to overcome despair, pope says
Pope Leo XIV greets Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory, during an audience with students in the summer school of the observatory, at the Vatican June 16, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Sharing joy of discovery contributes to peace, pope tells astronomers
Pope Leo XIV addresses bishops from Madagascar visiting Rome for the Holy Year 2025 during a meeting at the Vatican June 16, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope urges Madagascar's bishops to protect creation as prophetic mission
Father Paul K. Hurley, then-U.S. Army chaplain, is pictured in a 2014 photo giving a blessing for deployed U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan. (OSV News photo/courtesy Journey Films)
Need for more Catholic Army chaplains to serve military flock as great as ever, say 2 priests
Ultra Orthodox Jews look at an impacted site in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 16, 2025, following a missile attack from Iran. Iran fired a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early June 16, killing several people, while Israel warned residents of part of Tehran to evacuate ahead of new strikes. (OSV News photo/Miro Maman, Reuters)
US bishop calls for ardent prayer, diplomacy as Israel-Iran strikes continue
A woman holds a child next to a destroyed bridge during evacuation from Irpin, Ukraine, March 28, 2022, as Russia continues its attack on the country. (OSV News photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak, Reuters)
Vatican can take 3 key steps to bring Ukrainian kids back from Russia, says child advocate
K-yes Radio host Glen Lewerenz poses in the studio in St. Cloud, Minn., in this undated photo. "Holy curiosity" is the driving force behind the radio personality’s ministry of listening. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
'Holy curiosity' is driving force behind radio personality's ministry of listening
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