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- Rebecca Omastiak
May 12, the Minnesota House voted 132-2 in favor of a bill that would seek to establish social media requirements related to accounts for minors as well as certain enforcement and regulation mechanisms.
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The planned consecration of new bishops by the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X would be considered "a schismatic act," the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office said.
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The planned consecration of new bishops by the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X would be considered "a schismatic act," the head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office said.
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A New Mexico diocese is citing a breach of religious freedom protections, as it pushes back against the Trump administration's efforts to seize land from a pilgrimage site to build a portion of a border wall.
- Rebecca Omastiak
May 12, the Minnesota House voted 132-2 in favor of a bill that would seek to establish social media requirements related to accounts for minors as well as certain enforcement and regulation mechanisms.
- OSV News
Marking the anniversary of the attempted assassination of St. John Paul II and the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Leo XIV said Mary is the "perfect model" of what the Church is called to be and urged Catholics to imitate her "humility, active faith and obedience."
- Rebecca Omastiak
Ten years after his installation on the feast of Our Lady of Fátima, Archbishop Hebda is releasing his newest pastoral letter, titled “Only One Thing Is Necessary,” to families.
- OSV News
Pope Leo XIV's brother Augustinians and others from the Chicago-area looked back with gratitude on the past year since the election of one of their own at a special Mass May 8.
Abuse scandal at Indonesian Islamic school seen as call to Catholic schools to strengthen safeguards
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A recent child abuse scandal that led to the closure of an Islamic boarding school and the arrest of its head cleric is a wake-up call for Christians to tighten monitoring and introduce reforms in their schools, Church leaders in Asia said.
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On the first anniversary of Pope Leo XIV's election, a group promoting the Catholic faith in Chicago's south suburbs led an inaugural pilgrimage to his boyhood home and the church he attended as a boy.
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Ahead of the July 4 expiration of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act provision that eliminated Medicaid funds to health providers who also perform abortions, the U.S. bishops' pro-life chairman expressed support for legislation that would block federal Title X family-planning grants and funds from going to those entities.
- OSV News
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on May 12 reiterated its recommendation that President Donald Trump "swiftly" make a nomination to fill a key ambassador position to promote and protect religious freedom abroad.
- Dave Hrbacek
Mother’s Day on May 10 marked the final day of the Madre Peregrina tour in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. It began at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul on April 23 and ended at Incarnation in Minneapolis.
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- The Catholic Spirit
Jesus, at the Last Supper, prepares his Apostles, his closest friends, for his imminent passion and death, for him being with them intermittently for 40 days following his resurrection, and for his subsequent ascension into heaven. Although they do not know what lies ahead, Jesus proactively comforts them by promising that the Father “will give you another Advocate to be with you always … I will not leave you orphans.”
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- The Catholic Spirit
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