Read more about the article U.S. bishops pray for peace following Hamas’ attack on Israel
Palestinians watch the civil defense team as they search for victims trapped under the rubble of a house destroyed during Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 8, 2023. (OSV News photo/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Reuters)

U.S. bishops pray for peace following Hamas’ attack on Israel

‘The world is once again shocked and horrified by the outbreak of ferocious violence in the Holy Land’

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Read more about the article Poll: U.S. Catholics’ views on climate show no significant ‘Laudato Si’’ effect years later
Rock formations and mountains are pictured near Los Alamos, N.M., Nov. 21, 2020. Pope Francis warns the clock is ticking on the dangers of climate change -- and both a paradigm shift and practical action are critically needed to avert looming disasters in nature and human society. The pope released his new apostolic exhortation "Laudate Deum" (“Praise God”) Oct. 4, 2023, as a follow-up to his 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si', On Care for Our Common Home." (OSV News photo/CNS file, Bob Roller)

Poll: U.S. Catholics’ views on climate show no significant ‘Laudato Si’’ effect years later

‘We cannot fail to consider the effects on people’s lives of environmental deterioration, current models of development and the throwaway culture’

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Read more about the article ‘Laudate Deum’: Planet mirrors a deeply flawed view of human life and activity
A woman is seen relaxing at West Meadow Beach in Setauket, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2023. Pope Francis warns the clock is ticking on the dangers of climate change -- and both a paradigm shift and practical action are critically needed to avert looming disasters in nature and human society. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

‘Laudate Deum’: Planet mirrors a deeply flawed view of human life and activity

‘Climate change is one of the principal challenges facing society and the global community’

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Read more about the article FEATURE: Apostolate addresses often overlooked grief from pregnancy, infant loss
Patrick and Eileen Tully hold their daughter Brigid after she died June 23, 2011, at 47 days old from an infection while in neonatal intensive care. They also lost Brigid's twin, Fiona, in utero. Eileen is founder of Present in the Pain, a Catholic apostolate for mothers who have experienced loss of a child, especially through miscarriage and stillbirth, or in infancy. October is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, with World Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day Oct. 15, 2023. (OSV News photo /courtesy Eileen Tully)

FEATURE: Apostolate addresses often overlooked grief from pregnancy, infant loss

‘Sometimes ... you just never had the chance to process it and to let yourself acknowledge that it was OK to grieve’

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Read more about the article FEATURE: ‘Radical solidarity’ with women in need means being the ‘hands and feet of Jesus,’ pro-life leaders say
This is the illustration included in the materials for the U.S. bishops' Respect Life Month 2023. The U.S. Catholic Church celebrates Respect Life Month every October. (OSV News photo/courtesy USCCB)

FEATURE: ‘Radical solidarity’ with women in need means being the ‘hands and feet of Jesus,’ pro-life leaders say

‘These ministries have the opportunity to preach the Gospel in a way that does not even require quoting Scripture’

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Read more about the article Participants in Synod on Synodality say they seek ‘new vision’ for church from assembly
Pope Francis, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and the Rev. Ann Burghardt, general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation, join other Christian representatives for an ecumenical prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square Sept. 30, 2023, ahead of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Participants in Synod on Synodality say they seek ‘new vision’ for church from assembly

‘I hope that all the churches listen more to the laity, that they trust in their zeal for the Church and their competence to serve her and that they respect and listen to them’

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Read more about the article ‘What’s going to happen?’: DACA ruling keeps ‘Dreamers’ in immigration limbo
Demonstrators are pictured in a file photo during a rally near the U.S. Capitol in Washington calling for passage of the DREAM Act, which would have created a path to citizenship for “Dreamers,” who include the beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. OSV News photo/CNS file, Tyler Orsburn

‘What’s going to happen?’: DACA ruling keeps ‘Dreamers’ in immigration limbo

‘It’s been an issue that causes a lot of stress and strain for people who are lacking any security about what’s going to happen with their futures’

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Read more about the article Pew: More Americans pessimistic than optimistic about future of marriage and family
A family is pictured in an undated photo praying around the dinner table. (OSV photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Detroit)

Pew: More Americans pessimistic than optimistic about future of marriage and family

‘We know that families are changing and there is no typical American family these days. Majorities find most types of families acceptable, but the public does differentiate’

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