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The groups sued the state July 17, arguing the law would require them to facilitate such deaths for their patients in violation of their faith.

A Texas bishop said he is "grateful to God" that a foreign-born religious sister, detained by immigration authorities in late June, can remain in the U.S. as her case is processed.

Severe wildfires raging across central Spain have forced a community of Augustinian nuns to evacuate their monastery as record-breaking blazes sweep through the region. The sisters of the Monastery of the Conversion in Sotillo de la Adrada fled their home on July 25, taking shelter at a neighboring Augustinian convent in Talavera, about 26 miles south.

Four religious sisters professing vows in 2026 spoke with OSV News about their vocation stories and what led them to dedicate their lives to God.

For decades, Sr. Cecilia Nguyen dedicated her life to forming young Catholics in the faith. Now, as she faces kidney failure and a lengthy wait for a transplant, she says the faith she spent years sharing with others is sustaining her through the challenge.

Pope Leo XIV has named Sr. Alessandra Smerilli prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced June 30, making her the latest woman elevated to lead a major Vatican office under the new pontificate.

The relics of the French nun to whom Christ revealed his Sacred Heart will be available for public veneration in the U.S. at a number of locations, as the nation — newly consecrated to the Sacred Heart — marks its 250th anniversary.

The Department of Justice has moved to become a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit against New York state filed by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who operate a 42-bed palliative care program for the dying poor.

The nun grew up on a farm outside Waterville, New York, a destination for hops picking for making beer. She founded the Parish Visitors in New York City in 1920. On June 18, Pope Leo XIV declared her venerable.

The relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the French Visitation sister who experienced visions of Jesus revealing his Sacred Heart, will be present with the U.S. bishops in Orlando, Florida, when they consecrate the United States to Jesus' Sacred Heart June 11.

In a May 8 email to supporters, the Eudist Servants of the 11th Hour said Sr. Mary Francis had been informed by a mobile home park management company that she was an "unlawful occupant" at a property in the Ocean Bluffs Mobile Home Estates community.

Sr. Nadir Santos da Silva, 45, a member of the Carmelite Sisters Messengers of the Holy Spirit, was swept into deeper water May 11 near Catania while helping another nun who could not swim.

Police in Israel announced the arrest of a man suspected in the assault of a French nun working in Jerusalem as a researcher.

Pope Leo XIV issued decrees advancing the sainthood causes of five candidates, including a Dutch nun who served in St. Louis in the early 20th century.

Thousands of pilgrims are expected to gather in June in the Lithuanian capital for the sixth World Apostolic Congress on Mercy, or WACOM, a five-day event that has previously been held in cities such as Rome, Kraków, Bogota and Manila.

Sr. Amelia Hueller went to Chile as an exchange student at 16. There the images of the Virgin Mary she encountered began to tug at her heart. 

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Croatian Vincentian Sr. Nina Benedikta Krapic as the deputy director of the Holy See Press Office.

Servant of God Thea Bowman was a beacon for the Church to embrace more authentically the essence of what it means to be Catholic, Bishop Joseph Kopacz told Massgoers at the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in Jackson.
 

A congregation of Catholic women religious is lamenting the downfall of an acclaimed nursing home it once operated, after severe neglect and endangerment of residents by the current owners prompted Ohio state officials to intervene.

In a revolutionary year, the spirited celebration of America's 250th anniversary throughout 2026, the national shrine dedicated to the first U.S.-born saint is aiming to help patriotic revelers discover the place of "Mother Seton" among the pantheon of iconic nation-builders.