Archbishop Hebda calls for prayers after woman shot dead by ICE officer in Minneapolis
Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda is continuing his call for prayers a woman was pronounced dead following a shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis Jan. 7.
Pro-life groups push back after Trump tells House GOP to be ‘flexible’ on taxpayer-funded abortions
After President Trump told House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of elective abortions, in negotiations on health care subsidies, a key national pro-life group argued the policy should be “a minimum standard in the Republican Party.”
Pope Leo XIV’s papacy began today
With Pope Leo closing the Holy Door on Jan. 6, marking the end of the Jubilee, a new era in his young pontificate has begun.
Read: Pope Leo XIV’s opening address at the Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals
(OSV News) — This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s address Jan. 7, 2026, at the opening of the Extraordinary Consistory with the College of Cardinals, given in the Synod Hall in the Vatican. Dear Brothers, I am very pleased to welcome all of you. Thank you for your presence! May the Holy Spirit, whom we have invoked, guide us during these two days of reflection and dialogue. I consider it highly significant that we have gathered in Consistory on the day after the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord, and I would like to introduce our work…
Pope Leo XIV: Let us rediscover Vatican II
Pope Leo XIV delivered his general audience today announcing a revisit to the documents of the Second Vatican Council. Leo urged the faithful “not to let its prophecy fade, and to continue to seek ways and means to implement its insights.”
What can we learn from the baptism of Jesus?
A Homily for the Baptism of the Lord, by Father Terrance Klein
Pope Leo has called his first consistory of cardinals. What makes it ‘extraordinary’?
Even if the Vatican were to release a full transcript of this week’s consistory—which it certainly will not do—a detailed breakdown of the conversations among the cardinals would not be the most important takeaway from the meeting.
Venezuela, Trump and the end of ‘Pax Americana’
When it comes to American foreign policy under President Trump, the only guarantee left is that there are no guarantees.
Russell Shaw remembered as ‘giant of the church’ for contribution to Catholic journalism
Friends and colleagues recalled the Washington native as a man of deep intelligence, keen insight and personal discipline whose prolific writing and communications work helped to shape the Catholic Church in the U.S. for more than a half-century.
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