For Karri Norris, being a lunch lady at East Ridge High School in Woodbury is an ongoing opportunity to pray for teens. And when she clocks out, she continues to seek “pray-tunities,” as she dubs them — thanking cashiers, smiling at strangers and inquiring about people’s tattoos.
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 18 upheld a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities USA are among more than 200 non-governmental organizations named in a congressional probe for aiding immigrants its leaders call "inadmissible aliens" during former President Joe Biden's administration.
In the spirit of the Jubilee Year, a special time of grace and renewal in the Catholic Church, the Hmong community at Presentation of the Virgin Mary in Maplewood is giving $100,000 to the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
Close to half of the nation's adults have a personal or family connection to Catholicism, but Mass attendance makes for significant differences in what Catholics say is essential to their identity.
After Father Bill Murtaugh offers his final Masses as pastor of Pax Christi in Eden Prairie on June 22 and begins his retirement, one of his projects will be a jigsaw puzzle.
The National Eucharistic Revival is formally slated to end June 22, this year's feast of Corpus Christi. But, the three-year initiative -- which included last year's 10th National Eucharistic Congress and the 2024 and 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimages -- laid the groundwork for more efforts to come, its leaders say.
In what started out as a cloudy afternoon, the then bright and sunny stadium of Pope Leo XIV's favorite baseball team, Chicago's faithful cheered on one of their own's election to the papacy. The June 14 celebration, organized by the Archdiocese of Chicago, included a series of short video clips and first-ever airing of Pope Leo XIV's video message to the world's youth at Rate Field on Chicago's Southside.
Democratic State Rep. Melissa Hortman, who once taught Sunday school at St. Timothy in Blaine and was a speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their home early June 14 in what Gov. Tim Walz said “appears to be a politically-motivated assassination.”
Hours after June 12 overnight strikes by Israel on nuclear and military sites in Iran -- described by Israel as "preemptive" and sparking fears of a wider regional conflict amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war -- OSV News spoke with Jesuit Father John Paul, rector of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, located on a 40-acre hilltop campus between Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
