20+ hour, 57+ min ago   (1415+ words) A Baptist church constitution claims the authority to refuse your resignation “for any other reason the church deems necessary or prudent.” Paul had a word for men like this. Here is a clause from the constitution of Third Avenue Baptist…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (955+ words) By the time their 8 a.m. classes were over, two passenger planes had flown into the World Trade Center, a third had slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth had gone down in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Classes were canceled. That…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (140+ words) Date: September 11, 2026 Lesley, Luke, and I moved to the United States in June 2001. That August, we went to the top of the World Trade Center for dinner in the rotating restaurant, watching the extraordinary panorama of New York unfold around…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (505+ words) The Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, has issued an edict concerning a possible cause for the canonisation of a father who died saving his son after he fell into a septic tank, seeking information about his life as well as any…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (156+ words) » Continue to this story on OSV News CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop Charles Thompson of Indianapolis, Indiana, granted a dispensation from Sunday Mass attendance to “those who have reasonable grounds to fear being detained, separated from their families, or subjected to…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (769+ words) (OSV News) -- Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Indianapolis has granted a temporary dispensation from Sunday Mass and holy days of obligation for those fearing immigration detention. The move follows similar dispensations and guidance issued in several other U.S. dioceses amid the Trump…...

2+ day, 31+ min ago   (408+ words) Fr. William O’Malley, SJ, wrote more than 30 books, taught thousands of young men, and played the role of one of the priests in The Exorcist. The Jesuit was a polarizing teacher at Fordham Prep in the Bronx for decades—beloved…...