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Bishops condemn El Salvador’s ‘international prison’ where Trump is sending migrants

2 days ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele at the White House in Washington April 14, 2025.
Catholic universities look to support foreign students amid Trump visa crackdown

5 days ago | americamagazine.org | Gina Christian

(OSV News) -- Amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign student visas, several Catholic universities contacted by OSV News said they are actively seeking to support affected students. “Our international students, scholars and their families are important and vital members of our campus community, and we will continue working to ensure that they are welcomed and supported at Notre Dame,” the University of Notre Dame told OSV News in an emailed statement May 29.
On ‘Laudato Si’ anniversary, Trump policies threaten progress on climate change

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

Solar panels on the roof of the Paul VI audience hall at the Vatican in this Dec. 1, 2010, file photo. The installation had been approved by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008. Pope Francis released his landmark environmental encyclical "Laudato Si'" 10 years ago May 24, 2015. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)“Laudato Si’,” which celebrated its 10th anniversary on May 24, will surely stand among the most important components of Pope Francis’ legacy.
Clues to Pope Leo’s governing style may lie in Chiclayo

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | David Agren

CHICLAYO, Peru (OSV News) — Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown—but his years leading the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, may offer clues. There, he prioritized lay leadership, promoted synodality and worked across ecclesial factions. César Piscoya arrived in the Diocese of Chiclayo in 2017 at the invitation of the then-Bishop Robert Francis Prevost—now Pope Leo—to serve as executive secretary of the social vicariate.
Praying for a future when we don’t have so many martyrs to memorialize

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription optionsA window at St. Jerome Church in Hyattsville, Md., depicts the Ugandan Martyrs, among them Joseph Mkasa and Charles Lwanga. The young Catholic men were executed with other Christians by Kabaka -- or king -- Mwanga in 1885-86. Mwanga's savagery and the witness of those who were killed led to an increase in Christian believers in Uganda. The Catholic martyrs were canonized in 1964 by Pope Paul VI. Their feast is June 3.
Lessons on the Francis papacy from ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | John Dougherty

All of our Catholic Movie Club films this month have been inspired by Pope Francis’ life and legacy. As we come to the end of May, it felt appropriate to cover the most famous film made about his namesake: Roberto Rossellini’s “The Flowers of St. Francis” (1950). It is one of the most well-regarded Catholic films in history, appearing on the Vatican Film List and praised by major filmmakers like Francois Truffaut, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Martin Scorsese. It is also a strikingly simple film.
Cardinal Parolin: Pope Leo wants peace between Russia and Ukraine, not a role in negotiations

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | Cindy Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Leo XIV’s offer to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine -- an offer Russia has turned down -- was motivated by a conviction that the two sides must start negotiating and stop the killing, the Vatican secretary of state said. “First and foremost, a truce is needed to end the devastation, the destroyed cities, the civilians losing their lives.
Pope Leo’s support-and challenge-to the world’s journalists

2 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Kevin Clarke

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription optionsPaola Ugaz, a Peruvian journalist who helped expose the abuse committed by leaders of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, gives Pope Leo XIV a stole made of alpaca wool, during the pope's meeting with members of the media May 12, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.
‘Andor,’ Star Wars and the costs of radical discipleship

2 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Maurice Timothy Reidy

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription optionsAndor (Diego Luna) in Andor on Disney+ (©2024 Lucasfilm)This essay contains minor spoilers for Seasons 1 and 2 of “Andor.”“Andor” is not just another “Star Wars” show. And the second and final season of the series, which just concluded on Disney+, begins with a moment that signals its ambitions. The title character, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), is on a rebel mission to steal a TIE fighter from the Imperial Army.
Cardinal McElroy condemns killing outside DC’s Capital Jewish Museum as ‘antisemitic hatred and murder’

2 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Gina Christian

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Catholic bishops are calling for prayer after two Israeli Embassy staff members were slain late May 21 outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were leaving an event at the museum when they were shot at close range. Washington Cardinal Robert W.