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Intense media coverage has swirled around the case of the celebrity whose body was found July 8, apparently months after she died.

In a small border town between Kenya and Tanzania sits Savelberg Mixed Day and Boarding Primary School, founded in 2012 by the Little Sisters of St. Joseph to provide the community with a learning institution.

Daughter of Charity Sr. Denise LaRock is one of the many people working tirelessly with Catholic groups to help Texas Hill Country residents affected by the deadly July 4 floods.

En los años 20, el Ku Klux Klan —organización racista, antiinmigrante y anticatólica— impulsó en Oregón, con apoyo del gobernador, una ley para eliminar las escuelas católicas. Las Hermanas de los Santos Nombres de Jesús y María demandaron al Estado y ganaron, sentando en Estados Unidos un precedente clave sobre la libertad educativa: el derecho de los padres a elegir la educación de sus hijos. 

As the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill made its way toward congressional approval last month, U.S. Catholic bishops signed their names to not one but two letters to senators on the same day, both airing misgivings. The existence of dueling letters, church observers say, offered a rare public glimpse of a rift that's been years in the making.

The Trump administration's ending of deportation protections for those who have fled Honduras and Nicaragua shows "no discernment," an immigration policy expert told OSV News — while a pastor at one Philadelphia parish said the moves have sparked fear and a sense of powerlessness among his community.

On any day, Zimmerman said, "you can be talking to someone who clung to their rosary in a bathtub during a tornado, a chaplain on death row, a senator speaking out for immigrants, or a cloistered sister making Communion wafers."

If the U.S. Congress approves the proposed drastic cuts on Medicaid, critics say nearly 11 million people will lose their health insurance. More than 13,000 of those people could be men and women religious.