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For two days, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in plenary assembly in Baltimore advancing key issues related to liturgy, living out the faith, in ...

Coptic Catholic Patriarch reminds participants that the guiding thread of this synod must be the centrality of Christ

Titled "The Road to Family Missionary Discipleship," the new book offers a framework for family-based evangelization and discipleship.

Catholic sacramental marriages have plummeted 69 percent in the US from 1970 to 2021, according to data from the Apostolate

(OSV News) -- Little is known about the early life of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, whom Pope Francis declared venerable June 22. However, it is possible she may become one of the United States first Black Catholic saints. Likely of what today is Haitian ethnicity, Mother Lange -- born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange -- emigrated from Cuba shortly after the War of 1812 and made her way to Baltimore, where she ran a school for African-American children in her home. Sulpician Father James Joubert had

ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) -- At the U.S. Catholic bishops June assembly, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal representative to the U.S., laid out the Vaticans case for how embracing synodality -- with Jesus Christ as their true north -- can help bishops carry out the churchs evangelizing mission with their people. And he said that the U.S. bishops already have examples of synodality at work among them and in their local churches. The purpose of walking this synodal path is to make our

ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) -- Meeting in Orlando for their spring assembly, the U.S. bishops moved ahead on some efforts to advance the churchs mission in the U.S., including new pastoral initiatives aimed at activating Catholics as missionary disciples. The gatherings June 15-16 plenary sessions proved relatively smooth, but featured moments of vigorous discussion at a few points, particularly around the formation of priests. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Milita

Meeting in Orlando for their spring assembly, the U.S. bishops moved ahead on some efforts to advance the church’s mission in the U.S., including new pastoral initiatives aimed at activating Catholics as missionary disciples

Celibacy is a gift, but this calling must incorporate psychosexual human development and be grounded in reality.

(OSV News) -- The Catholic Church in the U.S. has made progress over the past two decades in confronting sexual abuse against minors within the church, but has only begun to address the vulnerability of adults to sexual abuse by clergy, religious and lay leaders, experts told OSV News. Weve accomplished a tremendous amount in the area of (creating) safe environments, said Suzanne Healy, chairwoman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops National Review Board, a lay-led group that advises