Our Sunday Visitor media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Our Sunday Visitor one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 22 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Our Sunday Visitor biased?
The rating organisations do not give Our Sunday Visitor one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Our Sunday Visitor left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Our Sunday Visitor one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Our Sunday Visitor reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Our Sunday Visitor are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Our Sunday Visitor has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Our Sunday Visitor’s own report linked underneath.
Pope Leo XIV began his South American tour in Uruguay, addressing abortion and euthanasia. He also called for universal healthcare access, referencing his own recent illness. The visit marks the first papal trip to the region in decades.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asIn 1st FIFA World Cup stadium, Pope Leo tells 70,000 Uruguayans life in Christ is the ultimate goal (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Control of the US Senate is expected to hinge on a handful of closely contested races in the upcoming midterm elections. Key battles in states like Michigan and Texas are drawing particular attention as indicators of broader political trends.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asDemocrats win House and Senate in landslide midterm election seen as Trump rebuke (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
On 22 October 2026 Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation from the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican, recalling shared heritage, citing the Nostra aetate anniversary and warning that even deep disagreements must not lead to prejudice, while a Tel Aviv University study noted 20 Jewish victims in 2025.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asMeeting US Jewish leaders, pope warns differences must not fuel prejudice (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
A fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta has killed four service members and seriously injured dozens more. Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed the fatalities, calling it one of Canada's worst peacetime tragedies. The Department of National Defence stated there were no indications of terrorist activity.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asCanadian bishops express sorrow, pledge prayer following deadly military base fire (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Pope Leo has undergone surgery to remove part of his right lung due to lung cancer. The Vatican reports he is recovering well, walking and eating normally, though questions remain about the extent of the cancer and its impact on his upcoming tour.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asTrump sends Pope Leo ‘get well’ wishes following cancer diagnosis (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
A protester at a Donald Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio, was punched by a supporter and subsequently mocked by the president for their weight. The incident occurred as federal officers executed a search warrant at the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asTrump revives baseless claims about Haitian migrants in Ohio while touting deportations (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
During a Donald Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio, attendees attacked a protester. Video captured supporters pulling at her clothing, shoving her, and striking her. Donald Trump referred to the protester as 'paid' and 'scum,' and mocked her weight. No arrests were made.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asTrump revives baseless claims about Haitian migrants in Ohio while touting deportations (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed plans to broadcast the execution of Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood massacre perpetrator, by firing squad. The proposal has drawn widespread criticism from lawmakers, civil society groups, and international observers.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asWashington Letter: Pentagon plan to livestream execution met with widespread condemnation (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
House Speaker Mike Johnson has voiced concerns that a planned Pentagon livestream of the Fort Hood shooter's execution could become a recruiting tool for terrorists. President Donald Trump will make the final decision on whether the execution is broadcast.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asWashington Letter: Pentagon plan to livestream execution met with widespread condemnation (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Pope Leo has undergone surgery to remove part of his right lung due to lung cancer. The Vatican reports he is recovering well, walking and eating normally, though questions remain about the extent of the cancer and its impact on his upcoming tour.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asPope Leo XIV to undergo surgery to remove lung nodule (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
The Food and Drug Administration's safety review of the nation's main abortion pill, mifepristone, will extend into next year, according to a court-ordered update. The agency expects to complete a safety study by mid-December and issue a report by March 2027.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asFDA expects to draft mifepristone safety review next year; pro-life groups call it ‘insufficient’ (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Journal entries kept by Pope Francis before and during his papacy are to be published this autumn for the first time. The book, titled 'The Private Diary of Pope Francis,' will be released on November 24 in English and four other languages.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asVatican to publish Pope Francis’ private diary (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
New York will participate in a federal scholarship tax credit program starting January 1. Taxpayers can receive federal credits for donations to nonprofit scholarship organizations, with individuals eligible for up to $1,700 and married couples up to $3,400. The program faces opposition from teachers unions.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asCatholic education leaders applaud proposed rules on tax credit (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are suing New York, California, and Massachusetts, alleging their abortion shield laws unconstitutionally facilitate the distribution of abortion drugs. A separate suit targets individuals and groups for shipping these drugs.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asMultistate lawsuit asks Supreme Court to hear challenge to abortion ‘shield laws’ (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has permitted the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own. The court will hear arguments on the policy in December, with three liberal justices dissenting from the decision.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asSupreme Court temporarily permits third-country deportations as challenge proceeds (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV has stated that concerns about artificial intelligence are not 'fake news' and warrant serious attention. Speaking aboard the papal plane, he assured he does not sleep in panic mode regarding AI, despite its potential risks.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asPope Leo XIV says he’s not losing sleep over AI apocalypse fears (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Pope Leo delivered a speech in France on September 25, 2026, opposing the country’s newly enacted assisted-dying law. He addressed President Emmanuel Macron, warning that profit-driven science could promote surrogacy, organ trade, genetic manipulation and assisted death.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asIn Lourdes, Pope Leo rejects ‘false compassion’ of assisted dying, condemns abortion of the disabled (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
As Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to visit the United States, families and advocates have made public appeals for the release of detained US scholar Min Zin and Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai. The pleas were made during congressional hearings in Washington.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asAdvocates urge Trump to push for Jimmy Lai release during Xi’s state visit to the US (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report found that nearly 80 immigrant detainees at the 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility were held in small metal enclosures for periods ranging from several minutes to nearly two hours. The report described the enclosures as 'highly unconventional' and a risk to detainee health and safety.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asDHS watchdog finds inhumane conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ including use of small enclosures (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
A federal judge has paused a lawsuit aiming to overturn the FDA's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The case will not proceed until at least December 1, following a request from the Department of Justice.
Our Sunday Visitor reported it asState challenge to policy permitting mifepristone by mail paused until after midterms (opens Our Sunday Visitor in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.Independentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana, United States
- Official site
- osvnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- osvnews.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 22
- Reports listed
- 23
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
23 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 6 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Our Sunday Visitor ran the story anyway.
Across the 22 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Our Sunday Visitor: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 9 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 November 2026. Ratings pulled 12 October 2026.
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