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Sister Norma Pimentel shares the power of ‘encounter’ at Aquinas Center lecture 

Sister Norma Pimentel was the St. Catherine of Siena Lecture speaker at the Aquinas Center for Theology at Emory University on April 14, challenging believers to stand with the marginalized.

• US bishops’ head calls for prayer after gunman attacks White House press dinner attended by Trump

  

  By GINA CHRISTIAN, OSV News
  Published April 27, 2026

  Following a gunman’s attempted assault on the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, forcing the evacuation of the president, first lady and members of the Cabinet, the head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference denounced the violence and called for all to resort to prayer.

• Flannery O’Connor: Southern writer made Catholic vision ‘apparent by shock’

  

  By RUSSELL SHAW, OSV News
  Published April 21, 2026

  Flannery O’Connor was not an evangelist. She was an artist, one of the most gifted fiction writers of the 20th century. OSV News profiles the Georgia writer as part of a series on great American Catholics ahead of the July 4 celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 

• Pope Leo XIV names Archbishop Caccia papal ambassador to United States

  

  By COURTNEY MARES, OSV News
  Published March 8, 2026

  Pope Leo XIV has named Archbishop Gabriele Caccia as the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States, selecting a seasoned diplomat to serve as a crucial liaison between Rome and the pope’s home country.