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Readings for the Year C Readings Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent Reading I 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a The LORD said to Samuel: “Fill your horn with oil, …

Readings for the Scrutiny Year A Readings Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent Reading I Joshua 5:9a, 10-12 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach …

Michael Mewshaw’s new novel, set in an artists’ residency in Granada, is a comic take-down of American policy and its role in Europe’s refugee crisis. 

Mass for Artists began in August 2020. Since then, over a dozen have been celebrated in various churches across New York City, occurring two to four times a year. A …

Jonathan Tomick reflects on what the children in his life teach him about the Gospel.

Scripture for Life: Being reconciled to the God of compassion is bound to have a transformative effect on the one who is reconciled, That person will not only be a …

Reading I Hosea 6:1-6 “Come, let us return to the LORD,     it is he who has rent, but he will heal us;     he has struck us, but he …

OSV News interviewed Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas for his thoughts on current U.S. immigration policy and the challenges faced by those he serves in his borderlands community. 

The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2023, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms all declined, according to Vatican statistics.