The Rev. Aidan Smith had been on administrative leave since January amid claims he sold cathedral artifacts online.

In a letter to parishioners, the bishop said Aidan Smith might have "improperly sold artifacts belonging to the cathedral ...

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — At the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, Polish ski jumper Kacper Tomasiak made history — and then went to Mass. The 19-year-old captured two silver medals and a bronze, becoming ...

On Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Holy Mass in a parish on the Ostia coastline, in a sober pastoral visit, as Bishop of Rome, of an ordinary nature and with the usual diocesan dynamics. The ...

A video showing a crying elderly man approaching the altar during Mass — prompting the priest to interrupt the consecration and give him a hug — went viral in Brazil and moved millions of people. Fr.

Father Carlos Henrique Fernandes of the Diocese of Tubarão, Brazil, right, embraces a crying elderly man named Marcos who approached the altar moments before Communion at the Church of St. Francis of ...

Costa Rica will, for the first time in its history, try for nominations for both best international feature and best documentary at the Oscars. A few weeks after having selected Juan Manuel ...

CHICAGO (OSV News) — As Pope Leo XIV neared his 70th birthday Sept. 14, those closest to the American-born pontiff said they knew, very early on, that he was in for lifelong service to the church.

Pope Leo XIV speaks to altar servers from France during a meeting in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 25, 2025. More than 350 altar servers from 18 French dioceses took part in the pilgrimage.

Every Catholic at Mass, but especially the altar servers, should rejoice that they are in the presence of Jesus, Pope Leo XIV said. “But the Mass is also a serious, solemn moment, filled with ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks to altar servers from France during a meeting in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 25, 2025. More than 350 altar servers from 18 French dioceses took part in the pilgrimage.

Earlier this week, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas joined a number of other federal district courts that have challenged, narrowed, or simply rejected the applicability of ...