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Father Mike Schmitz, a diocesan priest in the Diocese of Duluth, Minn., and a popular priest on social media,, meets with young adults from St. David Catholic Church in Davie, Fla., at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 20, 2026. Father Schmitz spoke in three Florida cities that month as part of his Parables Tour. His last tour date is July 20 in Dublin. (OSV News photo/Tom Tracy)
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Pope Leo XIV spends the evening of July 4, 2026, with U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch and his family, where they discussed peace and freedom, and the Burch family presented the pope with a U.S.A. World Cup jersey, a baseball and an apple pie. (OSV News photo/courtesy U.S. Embassy to the Holy See)
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Father Melvin Díaz Aponte, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, and Carmen Alicia Rodríguez Echevarría, principal of the parish school, are pictured in an undated photo.They received the Catholic Extension Society's 2025-2026 Lumen Christi Award. For the 2026-2027 award, Chicago-based Catholic Extension has received 46 nominees from dioceses all over the U.S. (OSV News photo/Benny Bautista, Catholic Extension Society)
Catholic Extension: Lumen Christi Award nominees' good works 'born out of their love for God'
Pope Leo XIV greets a baby and family at the conclusion of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Vatican unveils agenda for global family summit marking 'Amoris Laetitia' anniversary
Andy Burnham, a British member of Parliament for Makerfield, England, delivers a speech at the People's History Museum in Manchester June 29, 2026. Burnham will likely become prime minister of the United Kingdom later in July and would be the first ever to identify publicly as a Catholic. (OSV News photo/Temilade Adelaja, Reuters)
UK Church looks with cautious hopes to Catholic prime minister candidate
This photo of a farm is an image from the documentary "American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story," which is scheduled to be released in theaters nationwide Aug. 26-27, 2026. The documentary tells the story of Oklahoma-born Blessed Stanley Rother through those who knew him, parishioners, catechists and family members, as well as those currently involved in his cause for canonization. (OSV News photo/Archdiocese of Oklahoma City)
New documentary brings 'farm boy' martyr Blessed Stanley Rother to wider Church
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors from the balcony of the papal Castel Gandolfo residence in Italy July 5, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo starts his summer break at Castel Gandolfo with cheerful welcome
Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, retired archbishop of Washington, raises the chalice as he concelebrates a Mass of thanksgiving for America’s 250th Anniversary at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington July 4, 2026. (OSV News photo/Tim Dias, courtesy National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception)
Mass of Thanksgiving for America's 250th anniversary held at National Shrine in Washington
Seminarians from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Ambler, Pennsylvania, along with several Knights of Columbus led a July 5, 2026, Eucharistic procession through the streets of Philadelphia, marking the close of the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage ends, but 'the journey continues'
Faithful sing at St. Peter the Apostle Church in Philadelphia July 5, 2026, during the final Benediction of the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, which concluded in that city amid the U.S.'s 250th anniversary celebrations. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)
Pope Leo to pilgrims: 'Strong; Eucharistic heritage of US must continue as source of renewal, unity'
Pilgrims process during the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in Fall River, Mass., June 30, 2026. (OSV News photo/courtesy John Paul Flynn)
Pope Leo to address National Eucharistic Pilgrimage during closing Mass in Philadelphia
This is a scene from the animated movie "Minions & Monsters." The OSV News classification is A-I – general patronage. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. (OSV News photo/Universal)
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Carrying the flag of Haiti and baskets with fruits and vegetables that are grown in the country, girls and young women lead an offertory procession during a Mass on June 28, 2026, for the feast day of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the patroness of Haiti. at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park, Md. The was celebrated for the Haitian Catholic community of Washington. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
Haitian Catholics turn to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, their patroness, in a challenging time
A file photo shows the dome of St. Peter's Basilica at sunset at the Vatican. Pope Leo XIV spent what is traditionally his weekly day off on Tuesday issuing a flurry of legislation and appointments June 30, 2026, overhauling the Vatican's financial watchdog agency, revising the governing structure of the Vicariate of Rome and making several appointments in the Roman Curia. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Pope Leo overhauls Vatican finance watchdog, revises Rome vicariate reforms in busy day of decrees
Noah Hajdu, a 23-year-old resident of Sterling, Mass., Father Derek A. Mobilio, pastor of Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Worcester, and others pose with the cross atop Wachusett Mountain in Westminster June 6, 2026. (OSV News photo/courtesy)
Catholic hikes up Massachusetts mountain carrying 130-pound cross to honor Christ
A silhouette of the Marian statue near the Spanish Steps in Rome is seen after a firefighter placed a wreath of flowers on the statue's arm Dec. 8, 2025, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Mary Immaculate, patroness of the United States
The relics of the French nun to whom Christ revealed his Sacred Heart will be available for public veneration in the U.S. at a number of locations, as the nation -- newly consecrated to the Sacred Heart - marks its 250th anniversary.
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Prelates process after Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with the blessing and imposition of the pallium on new metropolitan archbishops on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV: Sts. Peter and Paul show us how to be ‘servants of the truth in charity'
Cardinals gather for a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 26, 2026, which opened an extraordinary consistory June 26-27. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Catholic Church can help heal world's divisions, cardinals say
People transport an undamaged statue of the Mary and the Christ Child near the site of a damaged building in Caracas, Venezuela, June 25, 2026, following 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that rocked the country June 24. The death toll reached at least 1,450 and thousands more were injured, Venezuelan government officials reported June 28. Rescuers from around the world have arrived in the country to assist in rescue efforts. (OSV News photo/Fausto Torrealba, Reuters)
Pope Leo XIV calls for solidarity, prayers after deadly Venezuela quakes
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Emergency services work at the site of a collapsed building in Caracas, Venezuela, June 24, 2026, following 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that rocked the country. More than 150 people have died and hundreds have been injured, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said June 25, adding that rescue teams were rushing to the hardest-hit areas to free people trapped under rubble. (OSV News photo/Gaby Oraa, Reuters)
Archbishop calls for prayer, solidarity after twin earthquakes devastate Venezuela
Deacon Francis Cuffie is vested by Msgr. Joseph Malagreca during his ordination to the diaconate at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 25, 2019. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations has released its annual survey, "A Portrait of the Permanent Diaconate in 2025," conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Gregory A. Shemitz)
Deacons, detailed in new report, are 'icons of Christ the Servant,' says Archbishop Hicks
Pope Leo XIV greets Norwegian writer Jon Fosse at the Capitolare Hall of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 24, 2026, as the pontiff meets with writers from around the world to mark the 100th anniversary of the Holy See's publishing house, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Fosse is a recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning authors at Vatican for discussion on power of written word
A pro-life activist and a supporter of legal abortion square off with megaphones in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 24, 2023, the first anniversary the court's 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. On the fourth anniversary of Dobbs June 24, 2026, the U.S. bishops' pro-life chair and pro-life leaders pointed to abortion pills as among key challenges for protecting the lives of unborn children. (OS
USCCB and pro-life leaders: Abortion pills remain key post-Dobbs challenge
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