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Reading I Romans 15:14-21 I myself am convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another. But I have written to you rather boldly in some respects to remind you, because of the grace given me by God to be […]

Reading 1 Romans 14:7-12 Brothers and sisters: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For this is why Christ died and […]

Reading 1 Romans 13:8-10 Brothers and sisters: Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet, and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up […]

Readings for the Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop Reading 1 Romans 12:5-16ab Brothers and sisters: We, though many, are one Body in Christ and individually parts of one another. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us exercise them: if prophecy, in proportion to the faith; if […]

Reading 1 Romans 11:29-36 Brothers and sisters: The gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. For God […]

The Supreme Court has moved to block a judge order's demanding full payments to fund SNAP after the Trump administration asked the high court to intervene. The post Supreme Court sides with Trump administration to temporarily block full funding for SNAP first appeared on OSV News.

Court documents show that a grand jury indicted 44-year-old Jeremy Lillig Oct. 29 on one count of wire fraud for the offenses, which were reported to have taken place from 2017 to about March 2021. The post Former diocesan fundraising director indicted on wire fraud for alleged 6-figure theft first appeared on OSV News.

According to the World Health Organization, more than 720,000 people die by suicide annually — 73% in low- and middle-income countries. The post Love is key to church’s mental health ministry, says bishop who lost family to suicide first appeared on OSV News.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “If you want to cultivate peace, care for creation,” Pope Leo XIV told global leaders attending the U.N. Climate Conference in Brazil. As the international community… The post Caring for creation is part of peacemaking, pope tells COP30 first appeared on OSV News.

Some 90% of aid being distributed through Damascus is not reaching Sweida, where Druze and Christian communities live, religious freedom advocates say. The post Security for Syria’s religious minorities is disastrous, say religious freedom advocates first appeared on OSV News.

"I think it's important to not forget the past, and we have to be able to look backwards in order to move forwards," filmmaker James Vanderbilt said. The post New ‘Nuremberg’ thriller examines capacity of ordinary men to commit extraordinary evil first appeared on OSV News.

The church consistently teaches that all persons have both a fundamental right and a responsibility to have their voice heard in the public square The post A pastoral reflection on voting rights and the call to justice first appeared on OSV News.

The Texas Catholic bishops Nov. 4 issued a warning about the effects of a plan to implement a federal appeals court order on DACA affecting 86,000 young people. The post Texas bishops: Court’s order on DACA ‘undermines’ right to work, support a family first appeared on OSV News.