Chicago stadium seat gains fame: It&#8217;s where future pope saw first game of 2005 World Series

Members of the Jesus Bikers -- a motorcycle club from Germany -- along with representatives of Missio Austria, the Pontifical ...

Pope Leo XIV poses for a photo with Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Baturi of Cagliari, secretary-general of the Italian bishops' conference, and members of the Youth Council of the Mediterranean at the Vatican Sept. 5, 2025. The council, coordinated by the Italian bishops, includes young adult representatives from more than a dozen Mediterranean countries. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Peace comes from dialogue, not ‘walls and barbed wire,’ pope says

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The future Christians hope for and must build "is not ...

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile as he rides around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Sept. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope Leo’s vocation took root in childhood; never ‘a doubt in anyone’s mind’ he’d be a priest

By Simone Orendain, OSV News CHICAGO (OSV News) -- As Pope Leo XIV neared his 70th birthday Sept. 14, those ...

Pilgrims visit the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome July 31, 2025, where the relics of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati have been brought for the Jubilee of Youth. Banners inside the basilica feature images and quotes from the blessed, whose casket containing his remains were brought from his tomb in Turin for veneration. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Blessed Frassati through St. John Paul II’s eyes: ‘Faith and charity’ were his ‘driving forces’

By Paulina Guzik, OSV News (OSV News) -- An avid hiker and mountain enthusiast, St. John Paul II beatified his ...

Late evening sun illuminates rock formations at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colo., July 23, 2020. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Think you know the ‘nones’? Pew study reveals nonreligious adults’ nuanced beliefs

By Gina Christian, OSV News (OSV News) -- Those who are religiously unaffiliated are less likely to hold spiritual beliefs ...

A woman kneels in prayer at the tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis in the Sanctuary of the Renunciation in Assisi, Italy, Aug. 21, 2025. Acutis, who died in 2006 at age 15, will be canonized Sept. 7 at the Vatican by Pope Leo XIV. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Buried in Assisi, new saint is ‘true disciple’ of St. Francis, rector says

By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service ASSISI, Italy (CNS) -- Soon-to-be St. Carlo Acutis is a fresh "shoot" budding from ...

Mignogna Scholarship winners announced

by Staff Reports

September 4, 2025

Over the summer, the Knights of Columbus Saint Jude Council #6551 (Saint Andrew the Apostle, Gibbsboro) announced the winners of ...

This is a screenshot from the GoFundMe page of 12-year-old Sophia Forchas, left in critical condition with head injuries when bullets tore through Annunciation’s church in Minneapolis Aug. 27, 2025. Blessing her forehead and both hands with holy water from Lourdes, France, as she lay unconscious in a hospital bed in Minneapolis, Auxiliary Bishop Michael J. Izen of St. Paul and Minneapolis, prayed for her. (OSV News photo/Sophia Forchas, GoFundMe)

Bishop blesses hospitalized 12-year-old Annunciation shooting victim still in critical condition

September 3, 2025

By Joe Ruff / The Catholic Spirit, OSV News MINNEAPOLIS (OSV News) -- Blessing her forehead and both hands with ...

An undated photo shows a plaque dedicated to Pope Leo XVI inside Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox baseball team. Since Aug. 22, 2025, baseball fans have been able to easily spot the stadium chair where Pope Leo, then-Augustinian Father Robert Francis Prevost, sat when he watched the first game of the 2005 World Series. (OSV News photo/courtesy of the Chicago White Sox)

Chicago stadium seat gains fame: It’s where future pope saw first game of 2005 World Series

September 3, 2025