Religious orders in El Salvador seek to protect community from mega-prison’s pollution

The people who participated in the Sept. 26 walk in San Francisco Angulo, El Salvador, called for the intercession of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, ecology and the environment. (Lissette Lemus)

At event tied to Season of Creation, Catholic sisters and Franciscan friars in El Salvador support a rural community fighting water contamination and a landfill near CECOT, which can hold up to 40,000 inmates. 

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Pilgrims heading to the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida pass a painting of Jesus along the Presidente Dutra Highway in São José dos Campos, Brazil, Oct. 9, 2026. (OSV News/Reuters/Roosevelt Cassio)

Solemnity of All Saints: Taking Jesus' way of life seriously

Theologians' Corner - Today's Solemnity of All Saints interrupts the ordinary journey of the liturgy with an appeal to remind us that we are all called to holiness.

An election worker puts up a sign at a polling station in McLean, Va. (OSV News/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

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Fans cheer during a watch party at American Family Field after the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5 of baseball's World Series, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP/Ross Harried)

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Outside of Immokalee High School in Immokalee, Florida (GSR photo/Chris Herlinger)

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Haitian migrants in Florida turn to Catholic sister as deportation fears grow

Returning to Haiti does not feel like a real option: "We don't have anything there to go back to. This is home."

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Vanessa Redgrave played Sr. Jeanne des Anges in Ken Russell's 1971 film "The Devils," now restored and rereleased. (Warner Bros.)

Mark Kermode on restoration of 'The Devils' and the director's Catholicism

The movie, based on a 1951 Aldous Huxley book, met intense controversy, and it was heavily edited and censored. Now the full version is in theaters, tackling topics of power and corruption between church and state. 

A painting of Our Lady of Sorrows is seen at the Benedictine Abbey in Staniatki, Poland, in an undated photo. The 13th-century monastery, home to one of the country's most important collections of religious and cultural treasures, is seeking support to complete a major heritage preservation project by Dec. 31, 2026. (OSV News/Courtesy of Benedictine Abbey in Staniatki)

For 800 years, they kept prayers going; now Benedictines face $1 million deadline

A community of Benedictine nuns in Poland hopes to raise $1 million to complete a preservation project at their 800-year-old abbey by Dec. 31, warning that failure could force it to repay millions in EU funding.

People vote at a polling station in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 24, 2026, the first day of early voting in New York state for the U.S. midterm elections. (OSV News/Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Parental rights, on ballots in several states, trace to anti-Catholic era

Voters will consider culture war issues in many states this Election Day. Some activists cite a 100-year-old Supreme Court decision about nuns and Catholic schools.

Protestant German sisters of the Sisterhood of Christ Bearers Sr. Annette Dimigen and Sr. Chris Schmotzer manage the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Both have spent decades working with leprosy patients in the South Asian country. (Anee Muskan)

German Protestant sisters' decades-long health ministry continues in Pakistan

Founded in 1904, the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital is currently managed by Sr. Annette Dimigen and Sr. Chris Schmotzer, Protestant German sisters of the Sisterhood of Christ Bearers.

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A painting of Our Lady of Sorrows is seen at the Benedictine Abbey in Staniatki, Poland, in an undated photo. The 13th-century monastery, home to one of the country's most important collections of religious and cultural treasures, is seeking support to complete a major heritage preservation project by Dec. 31, 2026. (OSV News/Courtesy of Benedictine Abbey in Staniatki)

For 800 years, they kept prayers going; now Benedictines face $1 million deadline

A community of Benedictine nuns in Poland hopes to raise $1 million to complete a preservation project at their 800-year-old abbey by Dec. 31, warning that failure could force it to repay millions in EU funding.

Two details of "Cosmovitral," a stained glass window by Leopoldo Flores in Toluca, Mexico (Photos courtesy of Ma Elena López Munguía)
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God shines through consecrated life, like light through pieces of stained glass

What if our consecrated life were a beautiful stained glass window, shaped by the profound experience of God lived by every one of us?

Sisters of the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham pose for a photo at Mary's House in Walsingham, England. (Courtesy of Community of Our Lady of Walsingham)

How England's newest community of sisters is bucking religious decline

The Community of Our Lady of Walsingham aims to tap into a new openness toward religiousness among young British people.

Sr. Mariam Gill receives an award from Pakistan's federal minister for poverty alleviation and social safety, Syed Imran Ahmed Shah, on Oct. 14, 2026, in Islamabad. (Courtesy of Christopher Sharaf)

Pakistan nuns honored with national award for healthcare, women's empowerment

Sr. Mariam Gill and Sr. Genevieve Ram Lal received the Dukhtaran-e-Pakistan Excellence Award, the first women religious in Pakistan to receive the national honor.

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Protestant German sisters of the Sisterhood of Christ Bearers Sr. Annette Dimigen and Sr. Chris Schmotzer manage the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Both have spent decades working with leprosy patients in the South Asian country. (Anee Muskan)

German Protestant sisters' decades-long health ministry continues in Pakistan

Founded in 1904, the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital is currently managed by Sr. Annette Dimigen and Sr. Chris Schmotzer, Protestant German sisters of the Sisterhood of Christ Bearers.

Presentation Sr. Cecilia Phetpanomporn gives blankets to a refugee at a camp on the border between Thailand and Myanmar. (Courtesy of Good Shepherd International Foundation)
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Finding compassion behind walls and borders in Thailand

A Presentation Sister reflects on how fortunate she feels to have worked and ministered among refugees and prisoners, increasing her charism of justice and compassion.

Sr. Sharon Shabolyo of the Sisters of Charity of Sts. Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa with some of the girls she helps care for at the Mudzi-Wa-Moyo Orphanage in the Chirundu District of Zambia. (Derrick Silimina)

Zambian sisters shelter young girls in Chirundu's red light district

Mudzi-wa-Moyo, founded by the Sisters of Charity of Sts. Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa, currently cares for 60 girls in Chirundu, Zambia, by meeting their essential needs for shelter, food and clothing.

Sister Natali and Sister Bandita inspect the patients' rooms at Mary's House of Love, an 80-bed facility that prioritizes the local Indigenous Garo population. (Stephan Uttom Rozario)

Missionary of Charity nuns work for marginalized Garo Indigenous people

The nuns manage an 80-bed facility that prioritizes the local Indigenous Garo population, giving advanced medical care to avoid long-distance travel and economic hardship. The facility is usually fully occupied.

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