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Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
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Pope Leo XIV delivers a speech during a meeting with authorities, members of civil society and the diplomatic corps at the Élysée Palace in Paris Sept. 25, 2026, the first day of his four-day apostolic journey to France. (OSV News photo/Teresa Suarez, Pool via Reutes)
Pope Leo XIV arrives in Paris, urging French leaders to protect the right to life
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, a pro-prefect of the Holy See's Dicastery for Evangelization, gestures as he processes after concelebrating the beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 24, 2026, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. Blessed Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen declared 'Blessed' at beatification Mass in St. Louis
Seminarians watch as prelates process in at the start of the vespers for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 23, 2026, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, the eve of his beatification. Archbishop Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
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James Engstrom, then 15, who has a great interest in meteorology as a hobby, shows his parents, Travis and Bonnie, the weather forecast at their home in Washington, Ill., Jan. 23, 2026. James Engstrom, who was born without a pulse on Sept. 16, 2010, and remained clinically dead for an hour before his heart began beating, led to a Church-approved miracle that helped advance the cause for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's beatification. (OSV News photo/Daryl Wilson)
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People look at the Notre Dame Cathedral decorated with Vatican flags in Paris Sept. 23, 2026, as preparations continue ahead of Pope Leo XIV's Sept. 25-28 visit to France, (OSV News photo/Sarah Meyssonnier, Reuters)
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Pope Leo XIV speaks to visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 23, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Professor Pierluca Azzaro, left, executive secretary of the Ratzinger Foundation, and Father Roberto Regoli, president of Ratzinger Foundation announce that Notre Dame professor John C. Cavadini, who served as the director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Ratzinger Prize at the Holy See Press Office Sept. 22. (OSV News photo/Sergio Augusto Sannipoli, courtesy of Ratzinger Foundation)
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Women carry a cutout of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen in the exhibit hall ahead of the beatification Mass for Archbishop Sheen Sept. 24, 2026, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. The archbishop is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Sheen beatification 'a gift' and a call to mission, say pilgrims in St. Louis
Pope Leo XIV greets diocesan leaders at the conclusion of an assembly at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, Sept. 18, 2026. The meeting opened the new pastoral year for the Diocese of Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore gives a keynote address Sept. 18, 2026, at the National Assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious in Florissant, Mo. The theme of the Sept. 17-20 assembly was "250 Years of Freedom: Daughters of the Church from One Generation to the Next." (OSV News photo/courtesy CMSWR)
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Pope Leo XIV is embraced by a member of a delegation from the Special Olympics during a private audience at the Vatican Sept. 19, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti Vatican Media)
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Venerable Fulton J. Sheen is pictured preaching from a pulpit in an undated file photo. On March 25, 2026, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced the beatification of Archbishop Sheen will take place on Sept. 24 in St. Louis. (OSV News file photo)
Fulton Sheen: A teacher of virtue
Pope Leo XIV blows out a candle as he receives an angel cake from Vatican employees to mark his 71st birthday during his visit to inaugurate the exhibition "AQVA. Catastrophe and Wonder” at the Vatican Library Sept. 14, 2026. As the first U.S.-born pope marks his birthday, a Catholic scholar told OSV News he sees a potential shift toward "more hopeful perceptions of and associations with Catholicism" now than in the past two decades because of Pope Leo's priorities and his Americanism. (OSV News photo/Simon
As Pope Leo marks birthday, more positive views of US Catholics may be on horizon, says scholar
Pope Leo XIV looks at a book as he attends the inauguration of the exhibition "AQVA. Catastrophe and Wonder" at the Vatican Library Sept. 14, 2026. The exhibition is the opening chapter of a five-year cycle exploring water as both a life-giving and destructive force. (CNS photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo visits Vatican Library on his birthday, announces new building in Vatican City
Bishop Osório Citora Afonso of Quelimane, Mozambique, is seen in an undated photo. The bishop was found fatally shot at his residence in the early hours of June 6, 2026, and the bishops' conference of Mozambique said Sept. 4 that it has yet to receive any details on his murder. (OSV News photo/CPP)
Mozambique bishops say questions remain unanswered 3 months after bishop's murder
New York Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks delivers his homily during a vigil memorial Mass Sept. 10, 2026, at St. Patrick's Cathedral to honor memory of hundreds of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that 25 years ago brought down the World Trade Center's twin towers. Nearly 3,000 people died in the collapse of New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania when terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes to attack the U.S. (OSV News photo/Steven Schwankert, The G
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A woman prays during a Mass hosted by the Filipino Catholic Apostolate of the Archdiocese of New York at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City May 24, 2026. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
I brought a heart full of fury with me to Mass. I left it there.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Franciscan Father Gerardo Antonio Vargas Cruz, seen in an undated photo, as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico. The appointment was announced Sept. 8, 2026, at the Vatican. Bishop-designate Vargas is currently vicar for clergy of the Archdiocese of San Juan. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of San Juan)
Pope Leo XIV names Franciscan friar as coadjutor of Puerto Rico diocese
Indianapolis Archbishop Charles C. Thompson swings the censer over the altar as he celebrates a Mass to welcome pilgrims at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis July 16, 2024, just ahead of the National Eucharistic Congress. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has provided a dispensation to Catholics who fear being targeted by immigration enforcement going to and from Sunday Mass regardless of their legal status. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Indianapolis archbishop grants Mass dispensation amid ICE detention fears
Twelve of the 13 U.S. bishops in Rome for the Vatican-sponsored courses for new bishops pose for a photo on the roof of the Pontifical North American College in Rome Sept. 10, 2025. Pictured, from left to right, are: Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Timothy J. O'Malley; Auxiliary Bishop Kevin T. Kenney of St. Paul and Minneapolis; Bishop Scott E. Bullock of Rapid City, South Dakota; Bishop-designate Ralph B. O'Donnell of Jefferson City, Missouri; Chicago Auxiliary Bishop John S. Siemianowski; Bishop-designate Thoma
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Construction workers Oct. 5, 2006, remove a 20-foot cross formed by steel beams that was recovered from the rubble after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks brought down the World Trade Center in New York. Twenty-five years after the 9/11 terrorism attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people, Catholic family members who lost loved ones that day have credited their faith with getting through the losses. (OSV News photo/Chip East, Reuters)
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