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The pastor of Gaza's only Catholic parish revealed that Pope Leo XIV sent a personal condolence message following an Israeli missile strike that killed five people, including a Christian mother and daughter.

Pope Leo XIV named Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, who has served for over five years as archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and the pope's vicar for Vatican City, as archbishop of the central Italian Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto.

After a failed attempt to execute death row inmate Christa Gail Pike on Sept. 30, a number of faith leaders have called for her sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment.

A statement from the Department of Defense said it "is elevating spiritual readiness as a core element of combat effectiveness with the establishment of the Office of Religious Affairs ..."

The trilateral agreement between the U.S., Denmark and Greenland followed months of President Donald Trump's calls to acquire Greenland for U.S. national security interests, with military force noted as a possible option.

Catholic and Anglican leaders said they could not "think of any time in the last 30 years" when the Christian commandment to love God and neighbor "needs to be more urgently heard."

The Evangelization Lab responds to the call that popes have made to turn the internet into the "new forum for proclaiming the Gospel," and to properly and humanely use technology as an evangelization tool.

Archbishop Hubertus van Megen warned German bishops against charting a separate course for the local church, reminding them that Catholic unity relies on fidelity to the papacy and the Eucharist.

The high court has temporarily allowed the Trump administration to carry out removals to a country where a person who had migrated to the United States has no ties while a challenge to that policy continues.

A former campus residence rector at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana has filed suit against several individuals who earlier this year had anonymously accused her online of sexual abuse.

Universal health care is "a moral imperative," as "the Holy See has consistently reiterated," the Vatican's top diplomat told the United Nations.

 The contrast between Latin American-Caribbean and Canadian progress toward creating a synodal – or "listening" – church could not have been starker than in two presentations Canada's bishops heard during their Sept. 21-25 plenary in Montreal.

A federal agency has sued an Ohio-based Catholic health system and its subsidiary over alleged religious and racial discrimination against a Jewish doctor who was a longtime surgeon.

Americans need to take action to support immigrants who are in this country without documents and are suffering under the government's mass deportation policy, Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy said at a Mass marking the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees.

Two days after surviving a knife attack that killed a fellow priest, Father Adrian Mantykiewicz returned to the altar at the Benedictine sisters' abbey in Jaroslaw with a message centered on forgiveness.

"The task before us is therefore not merely to manage the consequences of conflict, but to address its root causes and create the conditions for a peace that can endure," Cardinal Pietro said of the war in Gaza. 

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a challenge from Catholic preschools regarding their ability to participate in Colorado's universal preschool program.

Pope Leo XIV has added one of America's leading Catholic educators with expertise in the connection between history and the faith to a key pontifical commission focused on preserving truth, at a time when the Holy Father is warning of how a failure to accurately understand history could lead to a politically and technologically more dangerous future for the world.

Recent calls from several artificial intelligence leaders for a slowdown in the technology's development are worth heeding – and the church is already helping to shape the discussion around AI concerns, two Catholic AI experts told OSV News.

The Vatican announced Sept. 22 that University of Notre Dame professor John Cavadini has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Ratzinger Prize.