The Catholic Spirit is honored to highlight members of men’s and women’s religious communities who are celebrating milestone jubilees of 10, 25, 50, 60, 70, 75, 80 and 80-plus years this year, and who ...

A provision of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that stopped Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments for a year expired July 4, allowing the nation's largest abortion provider to regain ...

St. Charles Borromeo was an exceptional bishop and a truly holy man. He had a brilliant mind. He was a solid theologian. He was one of the Catholic Church’s greatest leaders during and after the ...

Ezra Jin Mingri, founder and pastor of an underground church in China and a prisoner of conscience in that country, was ...

The feast day for St. Pier Giorgio Frassati on July 4 will be his first ever since his canonization last year. This means a novena long prayed to him as a blessed is now being prayed to him as a saint ...

The hands of a newly ordained priest are pictured during a ceremony within the Society of St. Pius X community in Econe, Switzerland, June 29, 2012. The Vatican has declared the Society of St. Pius X ...

“Whenever you’re starting an outreach ministry, because that’s how we really defined this was an outreach ministry, is just meeting other young people and doing a lot of face-to-face time,” Sondeno ...

This is a scene from the animated movie “Minions & Monsters.” The OSV News classification is A-I – general patronage. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG — parental guidance suggested. OSV ...

Pope Leo arrives to celebrate Mass on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2026. The Vatican on July 2 declared the Society of St. Pius X to be “in schism” ...

Amanda Post, parishioner of Our Lady of Grace in Edina, grew up in rural Iowa. She came to the Twin Cities to study at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and has been here ever since. Still, she ...

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage ends July 5 with a closing Mass, procession and celebration in Philadelphia, which will begin with a special video message from Pope Leo XIV.

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 took up a case regarding whether state and local bans on semiautomatic rifles, sometimes called assault weapons, violate the Second Amendment.