Read more about the article Pro-life activists mark Dobbs’ first anniversary, advocate for more pregnancy support
A memorial stone dedicated to the unborn children of the world is seen at St. Patrick Parish Cemetery in Smithtown N.Y., Jan. 22, 2021. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Pro-life activists mark Dobbs’ first anniversary, advocate for more pregnancy support

‘The work that lies ahead continues to be not just changing laws but also helping to change hearts’

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Read more about the article Archbishop Pierre: Synodality empowers Church to be ‘more effective’ in its mission
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, speaks June 15, 2023, during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' spring plenary assembly in Orlando, Fla. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Archbishop Pierre: Synodality empowers Church to be ‘more effective’ in its mission

‘Like Christ himself, we must go on mission into the world with an openness to discovering what is actually there’

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Read more about the article Knights of Columbus are called to take ‘co-responsibility’ for Church with ‘heart of a father’
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, supreme chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, is accompanied by fourth-degree Knights as he leads a Eucharistic procession outside St. Mary's Church in New Haven, Conn., June 9, 2023. (OSV News photo/Tamino Petelinšek, courtesy Knights of Columbus)

Knights of Columbus are called to take ‘co-responsibility’ for Church with ‘heart of a father’

‘We must be witnesses to the love of God’

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Read more about the article Archbishop Pierre: Synodality empowers Church to be ‘more effective’ in its mission
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, speaks June 15, 2023, during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' spring plenary assembly in Orlando, Fla. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Archbishop Pierre: Synodality empowers Church to be ‘more effective’ in its mission

‘Like Christ himself, we must go on mission into the world with an openness to discovering what is actually there’

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Read more about the article Catholic media professionals are called to ‘proclaim truth of Christ’
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory delivers the homily at a memorial Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary June 9, 2023, during the annual Catholic Media Conference in Baltimore. The Mass is celebrated in memory of Catholic Media Association members who died over the past year. (OSV News photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Archdiocese of Washington)

Catholic media professionals are called to ‘proclaim truth of Christ’

‘Yours is the great opportunity of reporting a word of truth that has changed your own life’

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Read more about the article Catholic parish dedicates memorial to unborn victims of abortion Memorial Day weekend
These simple words from Jeremiah 1:5 adorn a stone memorial, located on the grounds of St. Philip of the Apostle Catholic Church in Somerville, Tenn., titled "A Monument to the Unborn". It commemorates all the victims of abortion, and was officially dedicated following Mass on Memorial Day, May, 29, 2023. (OSV News photo/Amelia Carlson, courtesy St. Philip of the Apostle Catholic Church)

Catholic parish dedicates memorial to unborn victims of abortion Memorial Day weekend

‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born, I consecrated you’

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Read more about the article Archbishop: Months leading to synod is a time for faithful to live response to divine grace ‘more intensely’
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory celebrates a Mass on the the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington May 31, 2023. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese of the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was the homilist. The Mass was offered to mark the feast day and to pray for the October world Synod of Bishops in Rome. (OSV News photo/Patrick G. Ryan for Catholic Standard)

Archbishop: Months leading to synod is a time for faithful to live response to divine grace ‘more intensely’

‘Let us find in you our unity so that we may journey together to eternal life’

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Read more about the article Nun’s incorruptible remains highlight rich heritage of Black Catholics in U.S., say experts
The exhumed body of Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, lies in repose in the church at the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Mo., May 21, 2023. (OSV News photo/Megan Marley)

Nun’s incorruptible remains highlight rich heritage of Black Catholics in U.S., say experts

‘Black history is and always has been Catholic history in the U.S.’

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Read more about the article Minnesota, Delaware are the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana
Marijuana plants are pictured in a file photo. Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., signed a bill into law May 30, 2023, legalizing recreational marijuana use in Minnesota just a month after a similar law went into effect in Delaware. To date, 23 states, two U.S. territories and the District of Columbia have now enacted measures to regulate cannabis for adult non-medical use. (OSV News photo/Blair Gable, Reuters)

Minnesota, Delaware are the latest states to legalize recreational marijuana

‘Part of the unethical character of the drug flows from the fact that we are treating something good … as if it were an evil to be avoided’

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