American country music star Dolly Parton performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England, during the Glastonbury Festival on 29 June 2014. The iconic singer-songwriter-actress, whose glittering country music stardom was matched by her pop fame and popular parallel careers in film and TV, died on 25 August 2026, at age 80, after a brief battle with cancer. Photo: OSV News/Cath...

Researchers and practitioners from The University of Notre Dame Australia recently shared their expertise on the international stage at the third Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (G.R.A.C.E.) Colloquium, held at Boston College in the United States. The international gathering brought together almost 200 Catholic educators, school leaders, researchers and sector representative...

One in Christ, united in mission is the theme that Pope Leo XIV has chosen for World Mission Day that celebrates its centenary on Sunday 18 October 2026. The theme recognises that mission is not the work of individuals alone, but of an entire Church moving together in faith. It speaks to a unity that goes beyond agreement or belonging; an active, lived commitment to bringing God's love i...

Caritas Australia is urging Australians to support communities devastated by catastrophic flooding in Nepal as local partner Caritas Nepal expands its emergency response to reach families who have lost homes, livelihoods and loved ones. As the scale of the disaster continues to emerge, hundreds of lives have been lost, thousands of people are still missing or unaccounted for, and there is w...

By Carol Glatz The Catholic vision and culture of love and mercy must overcome the false narratives that create enemies and convince people and nations to "re-arm" in a "culture of power," Pope Leo XIV has said. "Let us, then, together free our lives from suspicion, culture from arrogance, education from ideology, work from the idolatry of profit, and technology and finance from the busi...

Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholics to gather in person for Sunday Mass and has called for working conditions that allow people to attend, saying Sunday is “the foundation and kernel of the whole liturgical year.”

Bishop Sproxton with Doubleview parishioner and 2026 CSSWA Volunteer of the Year Award recipient, Doris Zombonetti, also with Matt Tranter (son of Tom Tranter) Catholic Outreach Director, Marietta Russo. Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth.

By Courtney Mares Preparations are in full swing for World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul, South Korea, where Pope Leo XIV is expected to join young Catholics from around the world for the second World Youth Day ever held in Asia. The 3 to 8 August 2027 gathering comes more than three decades after the first World Youth Day in Asia, which drew 4 - 5 million people to Manila with St John Pau...

By OSV News Pope Leo XIV is inviting Catholics to pray "for evangelisation in the city" as his August prayer intention, asking the Lord to accompany millions searching for meaning amid the noise and haste of urban life. In his monthly Pray with the Pope video, Pope Leo expressed his hope that urban environments may provide "fertile ground" for proclaiming the Gospel. The Chicago-born ...

Artistic render of the new Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament that will become New Zealand's first newly constructed Catholic Cathedral in more than 120 years. Image: NZBC. Fifteen years after the devastating Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand claimed 186 lives and damaged thousands of buildings including the diocese's historic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Catholic Bishop of Chris...