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Cardinal Cupich reinstates Chicago priest and outspoken social activist cleared of abuse allegations

by Gina Christian - OSV News August 25, 2026

Father Michael Pfleger, senior pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago, is pictured in a file photo. Credit: OSV News photo/Jim Young, Reuters

(OSV News) — Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago has reinstated a diocesan priest — known for his longtime social justice ministry — as pastor after an inquiry cleared the cleric of abuse allegations.

In an Aug. 24 letter addressed to the faithful of St. Sabina Parish, Cardinal Cupich said that a recently made allegation against Father Michael Pfleger had been “thoroughly reviewed” and found unsubstantiated.

Priests are wearing cassocks again. Should you care?

Priests are wearing cassocks again. Should you care?

by Joe Hoover, S.J. August 25, 2026

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Let’s not kid ourselves, they look just so very fantastic, long black cassocks on today’s vital young priest. The Roman cassock, 33 buttons all black and slimming, the semi-Jesuit cassock and the complicated way you fasten it. A Catholic clergyman in a cassock walking through the sanctuary or on the city streets: There is a priest. The Year Rounder, the Southport, mandarin collars with a one-inch opening, a man unafraid to be seen, to be visible, to be clergy! 

In a world so denuded of signs and symbols of the sacred, the cassock is back. Has been for several years now, but more and more these days the thing. The timeless priestly garment, draping to the ankles, young men wearing them all over the place. Seminarians strolling the convention hall at the Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis or giving out ashes in a New York parish hall; priests attending a Communion and Liberation gathering or presenting at the SEEK youth summit or leaving a West Omaha church. 

Pope Leo places Knights of Columbus leader on Vatican office for laity

 

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Pope Leo places Knights of Columbus leader on Vatican office for laity

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Sept. 6, 2026: Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

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August 25, 2026

Sept. 6, 2026: Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Can we listen as Jesus did to the Canaanite woman?

 

August 26, 2026

Can we listen as Jesus did to the Canaanite woman?

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Catholic priest’s new study Bible brings faith and science together for a doubting generation

by Katie Yoder - OSV News August 24, 2026

The cover of "Science, Reason, and Faith: Catholic Study Bible," a book published in 2026 by Our Sunday Visitor. Credit: OSV News photo/Bob Roller

(OSV News) — When Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer realized a number of young Catholics were abandoning their faith in the name of science, he decided to do something about it: Create a new study Bible.

“We have a lot of young people who are leaving our church unnecessarily,” said Father Spitzer, author of “Science, Reason, and Faith: Catholic Study Bible,” a book published by Our Sunday Visitor (the parent company of OSV News) over the summer. “They think that faith and science are contradictory.”

What will Pope Leo tell France's surging Catholic converts?

 

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What will Pope Leo tell France's surging Catholic converts?

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Recognizing Our True Self

 

 

 

True Self and False Self

Recognizing Our True Self

Monday, August 24, 2026

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Father Richard describes the characteristics and purposes of the true self in greater depth:

Searching for and rediscovering the true self is the fundamentum, the essential task that will gradually open us to receiving love from and giving love to God, others, and ourselves. We are created in the image of God from the very beginning (Genesis 1:26–27).