Nation & World

Pope Leo XIV speaks to participants in a conference on "Mysticism, Mystical Phenomena and Holiness," in the Vatican audience hall Nov. 13, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Authentic mysticism is a spiritual gift that bears good fruit, pope says
Prelates attend a Nov. 11, 2025, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Unity in teaching, mission, and concern for immigrants resounds at bishops' fall assembly
A photo of earth from space with visible lights
Artificial intelligence and lived discipleship
Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne, right, speaks on Nov. 5, 2025, during a conference titled "Deepening Communion in a Polarized World," co-sponsored by St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad and the Glenmary Home Missioners religious order. The conference took place at the seminary. Also taking part in the conference session are conference facilitator Amy Uleman, left, and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)
How to 'deepen' communion in increasingly polarized world is focus of Indiana conference
A breviary, or the liturgical book containing the Liturgy of the Hours, is seen in this illustration photo. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Vatican gives final approval to new Liturgy of the Hours edition coming in 2027
France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, France's Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin stand next to Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo and France's President Emmanuel Macron as they pay tribute to victims at intersection of Faubourg du Temple and Boulevard Jules Ferry near “La Bonne Biere” cafe in Paris Nov. 13, 2025, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks. (OSV News photo/Ludovis Marin, pool via Reuters)
Paris commemorates 10 years since terror attacks with Masses, church bells ringing
France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, France's Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin stand next to Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo and France's President Emmanuel Macron as they pay tribute to victims at intersection of Faubourg du Temple and Boulevard Jules Ferry near “La Bonne Biere” cafe in Paris Nov. 13, 2025, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks. (OSV News photo/Ludovis Marin, pool via Reuters)
Paris commemorates 10 years since terror attacks with Masses, church bells ringing
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, left, looks on moments after being elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during a Nov. 11, 2025, session of the fall general assembly of the USCCB in Baltimore. His three-year term begins at the close of the Nov. 11-13 plenary. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Archbishop Coakley, Bishop Flores elected president and vice president of USCCB
Bishops from around the country gather at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore Nov. 10, 2025, for the opening Mass of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' fall plenary assembly. (OSV News photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
Bishops tell pope they'll continue to stand with migrants, defend right to worship freely
Agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detain a man after conducting a raid at the Cedar Run apartment complex in Denver Feb. 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Kevin Mohatt, Reuters)
U.S. bishops approve ‘special pastoral message’ on immigration
The Vatican Dicastery for Communication released the documentary "Leo from Chicago," which chronicles the pope's humble beginnings in Dolton, Ill., as well as his early years as an Augustinian. Released Nov. 10, 2025, the documentary was produced by the Dicastery for Communication, along with the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Apostolado El Sembrador Nueva Evangelización (ESNE), a Spanish-language Catholic TV apostolate. (OSV News screenshot/Vatican News - English YouTube)
'Leo from Chicago:' Vatican releases new documentary on pope's early years
Phoenix Bishop John P. Dolan is pictured during Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 27, 2020. Bishop Dolan gave the keynote at an international conference on mental health in Rome Nov. 5 and 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Stefano Dal Pozzolo)
Love is key to church's mental health ministry, says bishop who lost family to suicide
The poster for the international congress, "AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity," sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life and the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, is seen Nov. 10, 2025, outside the Jesuit headquarters in Rome where the congress was being held. (CNS photo/Cindy Wooden)
Pope asks for extra care when using AI in medicine
Bishop John Bogna Bakeni of Maiduguri, Nigeria, speaks Nov. 6, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland, at a press conference ahead of the 17th Day of Solidarity with the Persecuted Church on Nov. 9. "Every day is a grace, because we never know what will happen in the next hour," Bishop Bakeni told OSV News about the situation of Christians in his country. (OSV News/courtesy Polish bishops' conference)
Bishop: Survival of Christian communities in Nigeria depends on security, justice
Pope Leo XIV gives his homily from the "cathedra" or bishop's chair at Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran Nov. 9, 2025, the feast of the basilica's dedication. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Dig deep, work patiently to keep church on solid foundation, pope says
Pope Leo XIV welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to a meeting in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Nov. 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope welcomes Palestinian leader; discusses Gaza, peace
A yellow 'X' marks areas of Muhammad Ali Louisville International Airport in Kentucky Nov. 5, 2025, that were closed following the crash of a UPS MD-11 cargo jet. The UPS cargo plane crashed and exploded Nov. 4 in a massive fireball while taking off from the company’s global aviation hub in Louisville, killing at least nine people and injuring 11, authorities said. (OSV News photo/Michael Clevenger, USA Today Network via Imagn Images via Reuters)
Archbishop prays for comfort, peace, healing after deadly crash of UPS cargo plane
Pope Francis greets then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a private audience at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2021. Pelosi, a Catholic and the first woman to be elected to that role, announced Nov. 6, 2025, that she will not seek reelection to Congress in 2026. (OSV News photo/Vatican Media)
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection
Pope Leo XIV is seen speaking to journalists outside the Palazzo Barberini in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, in a screen shot from a video taken Nov. 4, 2025. (CNS photo/screen grab, Vatican Media)
Pope answers questions about migrants, Venezuela, Rupnik trial
Pope Leo XIV processes into St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 3, 2025, to celebrate a memorial Mass for Pope Francis and all the cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Christ 'tamed' death, but people may still feel sad or outraged, pope says
People receive Communion during an outdoor Mass in the Broadview section of Chicago Nov. 1, 2025, observed by interfaith leaders, community members, and volunteers, outside the Broadview ICE facility, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention. The Mass was led by Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado. (OSV News photo/Leah Millis, Reuters)
ICE bars Chicago bishop from giving detained Catholics holy Communion on All Saints
A newspaper with an article reporting U.S. President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hangs at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria. Nov. 2, 2025. Trump said Oct. 31 he would designate Nigeria as a "country of particular concern" in response to violence in that country perpetuated against predominantly Christian communities. On Nov. 1, he threatened military action if that country's government didn't "move fast" to respond. (OSV News photo/Sodiq Adelakun, Reuters)
Nigerian church leaders have mixed reaction to Trump threat of action to protect Christians
A mother and a child dressed as a Catholic saint celebrate Holywins festival in the Sanctuary of St. Juliana of Cornillon, better known as Juliana of Liege, in Belgium, Oct. 29, 2023. Across Europe, Catholic families are turning Halloween into a celebration of light, life and holiness with "Holywins" -- a play on "Holy" and "Halloween." The movement began in Paris in 2002 and has since spread to Poland, Belgium, Italy, Spain and beyond. (OSV News photo/courtesy Holywins Liege)
It's Holywins: European Catholics offer a joyful alternative to Halloween
A painting of St. Philip Neri adorns the retable in St. Philip's Chapel of the Birmingham Oratory in Birmingham, England. (OSV News photo/Marcin Mazur, courtesy of Bishops' Conference of England and Wales)
All saints have their God-given temperament types, whatever the era
A file photo shows a woman praying at the grave of a relative during the Day of the Dead commemoration near Mexico City. The traditional celebration honors children on All Saints' Day, Nov. 1, and adults on All Souls' Day, Nov. 2. (OSV News photo/Henry Romero, Reuters)
Mexican Catholics unite faith and tradition for Day of the Dead
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