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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
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'
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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