News from outside of Canada.
February 19, 2026
The Society of St. Pius X has rejected a Vatican offer of dialogue and said it will move forward with plans to ordain bishops without a papal mandate this summer.
February 18, 2026
At the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, Polish ski jumper Kacper Tomasiak made history -- and then went to Mass.
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza.
Supporters of the traditional Latin Mass have urged Catholics not to confuse their movement with the more controversial Society of St. Pius X, commonly referred to as SSPX, whose leaders currently risk excommunication by threatening to ordain their own bishops.
Each year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops takes up its annual Collection for the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe. Ahead of the collection OSV News spoke with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk.
February 12, 2026
The bishops of Cuba have postponed their planned visit to Rome after government authorities announced that airlines could no longer refuel due to U.S. tariff threats against countries supplying oil to the island nation.
February 10, 2026
The daughter of Jimmy Lai said that while the 20-year sentence he was given was heartbreaking, her family still trusts in "divine providence" for a solution.
About 40,000 devotees gathered at St. Anthony's shrine in Bangladesh despite fears of violence ahead of national elections, praying for peace in the Muslim-majority nation where Christians make up less than 1% of the population.
February 9, 2026
The Diocese of Peoria announced Vatican approval for the beatification of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, the renowned 20th-century evangelist known as 'God's microphone,' ending a six-year delay caused by controversies over his remains and concerns about his tenure as Rochester's bishop.
Media entrepreneur and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, whose arrest nearly six years ago prompted outrage around the world, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
