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Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael J. O’Loughlin
Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis attends a Nov. 14, 2023, session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
FaithNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Disagreement about how strongly to describe the bishops’ opposition to abortion mirrors a similar debate in 2019.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Two high-ranking church officials offered differing assessments of the U.S. church’s level of commitment to Pope Francis’s signature church renewal initiative on Tuesday.
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The bishops’ vote for the head of the education committee could be crucial, as Catholic schools around the nation struggle with changing societal norms around sex and gender.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Ohio becomes the seventh state whose voters have chosen to protect access to abortion through the ballot box since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last year.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston is urging local Catholics to contribute resources for migrants arriving in Massachusetts, calling the situation a "major humanitarian and societal crisis."
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael J. O’Loughlin
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael J. O'Loughlin
FaithFeatures
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Pope Francis has spoken regularly about the devil and has reminded us that the devil is not simply a pop-culture trope.
Same-sex couples take part in a public blessing ceremony in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Several Catholic priests held a ceremony blessing same-sex and also re-married couples outside Cologne Cathedral in a protest against the city's archbishop, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
FaithNews Analysis
Michael J. O’Loughlin
When Catholic same-sex couples seek a blessing from a priest, it often flows from a deep faith in God.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is pictured on Capitol Hill in Washington May 1, 2019. Feinstein, who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the "Year of the Woman" and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, died Sept. 28, 2023, at age 90. (OSV News photo/Aaron P. Bernstein, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, released a lengthy statement on Thursday, praising the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s “civility.”