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Peter Cooney (right) and his brother Thomas, who co-founded Acutis AI, a website platform designed as a Catholic alternative to mainstream AI systems that offers responses rooted in Church teaching, are seen in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy of AcutisAI) Editors: Best quality available
Acutis AI co-founder explores 'Magnifica Humanitas' and pope's call for digital disciples
Pope Leo XIV smiles during his weekly general audience inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Aug. 5, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope encourages Catholics to deepen prayer through Liturgy of the Hours
This is a 17th-century painting of St. Augustine by artist Philippe de Champaigne. The saint lived in the years A.D. 354-430 and is considered a Church father and doctor of the Church. (OSV News photo/Public Domain, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Hidden for centuries: How newly identified St. Augustine sermons were found
Archbishop John Francis Noll, the founder of Our Sunday Visitor newspaper, is pictured in an undated photo. OSV was founded in 1912 by then-Father Noll, an Indiana priest who early in his ministry felt a call to expand evangelization efforts among Catholic faithful and non-Catholics alike through Catholic publications. (OSV News photo/OSV file)
The remarkable legacy of Archbishop John Francis Noll
Joseph Capizzi, former dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, was appointed the new director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame effective July 1, 2026, succeeding theologian John Cavadini after his 25-year tenure. (OSV News photo/University of Notre Dame)
Notre Dame McGrath Institute to meet 'novel' opportunities in Church life under Capizzi
Bishop Kevin Kenney of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis joins others gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul Oct. 3, 2025, for the annual Candlelight Rosary Procession. On July 15, 2026, Bishop Kenney announced his lung cancer diagnosis in a video to the faithful alongside Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda and Bishop Michael J. Izen. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Prayers promised as Minnesota auxiliary bishop prepares for cancer treatment
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The friendship crisis beneath the loneliness epidemic
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chair of the USCCB Committee on Pro-life Activities, are pictured in a combination photo. In a letter posted July 27, 2026, the bishops issued a nationwide call to prayer and action from now to the end of October, Respect Life Month, to stop the spread of abortion pills. (OSV News photo/courtesy Oklahoma City Archdiocese/Toledo Diocese)
US bishops ready nationwide prayer and action effort amid rising abortion rate
Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor is seen in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy 11th Street Lot)
6 great Christian authors (and how to start reading them)
Benedictine Father James Raber, a college chaplain at the North Carolina-based Belmont Abbey College, greets people after celebrating Mass Sept. 11, 2025, for U.S. medical volunteers at the Institute for Latin American Concern campus in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. (OSV News photo/Tom Tracy)
Ignatian retreat campus in the Caribbean serves as hub for medical missions
Pope Leo XIV and Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, listen as Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and a 164-member children's choir sing for the pontiff at the "Canticle of Peace" event in the Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo on the evening of July 29, 2026. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
Pope Leo XIV at Andrea Bocelli concert: Music's beauty points us to God
Pope Leo XIV greets a participant in an international conference on the pastoral care of the elderly organized by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life at the Vatican Oct. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
5 takeaways from Pope Leo's message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
Source of All Hope missionaries Erin Kelter, left, and Daniel Otto, right, pray with Keith Quigg, a man experiencing homelessness, at the corner of Greene and West Lombard streets in Baltimore April 14, 2026. (OSV News photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
Young Catholic missionaries bring hope to Baltimore's homeless population
Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Liberta in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, July 26, 2026. He appealed for dialogue, diplomacy and prayers for a just peace in the Holy Land and the Middle East. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
Pope Leo appeals for dialogue, diplomacy, prayers for just peace in Holy Land, Middle East
Andrea Bocelli performs during the World Meeting on Human Fraternity in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 10, 2023. Bocelli will sing for Pope Leo XIV with a choir of 160 children from the Holy Land, Uganda and Italy in the Vatican Gardens in Castel Gandolfo on July 29, 2026, in a special performance organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Andrea Bocelli to sing for Pope Leo with international children's choir
Journalists Lola Gómez, Jovel Álvarez, José Arnaldo Mujica, and Daniel Cáceres launched "Cartas para el Papa" ("Letters to the Pope") to bring the voices of Venezuela's June 24, 2026, earthquake victims to Pope Leo XIV. The team is collecting letters and photos online until Aug. 15 to hand-deliver to the pope during his apostolic visit to France in September. (OSV News photo/Lola Gomez)
Journalists launch initiative to bring letters from Venezuelan quake survivors to Pope Leo XIV
The Vatican has pushed back against reports that former Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, pictured in 2019, has been acquitted in his Vatican criminal trial. In a July 22, 2026, statement, the Vatican said rumors of an acquittal are "completely unfounded" and confirmed the canonical trial is still under review. Officials said judges continue examining evidence from dioceses, the Jesuits, alleged victims and media reports. (OSV News photo/Reuters)
After attorney pressed for transparency, Vatican answers rumors of Rupnik's alleged acquittal
Performers depict the origin story of Our Lady of Guadalupe during a special performance of "Misa Azteca" at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on June 27, 2026. (OSV News photo/Reese Cuevas, courtesy Archdiocese of Los Angeles)
'Misa Azteca' at LA cathedral mixes Catholic faith with Mexico's Indigenous culture
Ann Teresa O'Neill is pictured in an undated photo with Pope John XXIII in Rome. O’Neill, whose confirmed miraculous cure from acute lymphatic leukemia as a child led to the canonization of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, died July 17, 2026, at her home in Easton, Md. She was 78. (OSV News photo/courtesy Ann Teresa O'Neill)
Woman whose confirmed miracle as child led to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's canonization dies at 78
A boy poses for a photo while holding a smartphone in front of a screen displaying characters of a U.S. children's video game featured on Roblox, an online gaming platform, in this Dec. 8, 2025, illustration. The sentencing of a convicted online child predator to a 40-year prison term July 8, 2026, and renewed safety warnings from federal officials mark a call for parents to double down on protecting their kids in the digital sphere, a Catholic legal scholar told OSV News. (OSV News Illustration/Ramil Sitdi
Violent extremist's sentencing a call to protect kids online, says Catholic legal scholar
A file photo shows a couple on their wedding day. (OSV News photo/Handout via Laura Dodson)
What love teaches us about God
Pope Leo XIV visits the tomb of Sts. Benedict and Scholastica during a visit to Benedictine Abbey of Montecassino in the town of Cassino, Italy, July 20, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV makes surprise visit to pray for peace at the tomb of St. Benedict 
Akram Al-Fayoumi, 13, who lost his right foot and left hand after an Israeli strike on the Abdel Fattah Hamouda school, plays in a street in Gaza May 13, 2026. (OSV News photo/Mahmoud Issa, Reuters)
For Gaza Christians, World Cup final offers brief respite from horrors of war
A file photo shows a replica of the famed Porziuncola chapel in Assisi, Italy, inside San Francisco's National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. (OSV News photo/Dan Morris-Young, Catholic San Francisco)
Can't go to Assisi? Visit a US replica of the tiny church where St. Francis founded order
Place one of Western civilization's foundational texts in the hands of one of the entertainment industry's greatest living auteurs and the results are likely to be impressive. And so it proves with "The Odyssey" (Universal), writer-director Christopher Nolan's lavish and absorbing adaptation of Homer's epic poem.
Move Review: The Odyssey
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