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FaithNews
Gina Christian - OSV News
Amid immigration raids and emptying pews, the Nashville diocese is reminding faithful that they are not required to attend Mass if they fear for their well-being, according to the church’s own teaching and canon law.
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Politics & SocietyShort Take
Nathan Schneider
DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.
A confessional is seen in a file photo at the Memorial Church of the Holy Sepulcher on the grounds of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington. The Department of Justice announced May 5, 2025, it was opening a civil rights investigation into a Washington state mandatory reporter bill that it called an "anti-Catholic law" for having no exception for the seal of the confessional. (OSV News photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)
FaithNews Analysis
Connor Hartigan
Washington State's new law mandating priests to divulge abuse revealed in confessions is the latest salvo in a larger dispute between the Catholic Church and multiple U.S. states.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Against the backdrop of deep differences with the Trump administration over migration and foreign aid as well as concerns for Ukraine and for Gaza, the Vatican secretary of state welcomed U.S. Vice President JD Vance to the Vatican.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, attended the liturgy with his wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, and his three children after meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier in the day.
FaithOf Many Things
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.