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A file photo shows the cross atop the old Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua, Nicaragua. (OSV News photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)
Faith, hope 'work miracles,' pope tells people of Nicaragua ahead of Immaculate Conception
Advent candles and a wreath help bring focus to the time before the coming of our Lord. Each candle represents a week of Advent. (OSV News photo/Nancy Wiechec)
13 traditions for keeping an Advent attitude
Pope Francis greets people joining him for the recitation of the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Dec. 1, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Ceasefire, dialogue are the only paths to peace, pope says
Workers erect a giant cross Nov. 11, 2024, at Malvern Retreat House in Malvern, Pa. The 34-foot-tall was at the center of a Mass celebrated by St. John Paul II Oct. 3, 1979, in Center City Philadelphia. The Mass drew more than a million people. (OSV News photo/Joseph P. Owens, The Dialog)
Enormous cross at center of '79 papal Mass in Philadelphia has new home at retreat house
Pope Francis interacts with a child as his parent present the offertory gifts during Mass on the feast of Christ the King and the local celebration of World Youth Day in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 24, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Christ the King triumphs over evil with the power of love, pope says
Children participate in a procession at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City Nov. 23, 2024, during a prayer service marking the 91st anniversary of the Holodomor, a famine engineered by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Archbishop Gudziak: Ukraine remembers Soviet-era genocide amid 'new genocidal war'
A family lights an Advent wreath at their Maryland home. (OSV News photo/Tom McCarthy Jr., Catholic Review)
Preparing your heart and home in Advent
Attendees cheer Nov. 14, 2024, during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,More than 3,000 young people attended Nov. 14-16 event. (OSV News photo/courtesy NCYC)
NCYC is part concert, liturgy, classroom, silly fun, but God is at center of it all
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star in the movie "Wicked." The OSV News classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (OSV News photo/Universal)
Movie Review: Wicked
Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is debuting his latest work on Fox Nation: "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints." Scorsese is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/Fox Nation)
Martin Scorsese's new saints docuseries opens with Joan of Arc
Young people pray during the first-ever Life Fest Jan. 20, 2023, at the Entertainment & Sports Arena in Washington. (OSV News photo/Jeffrey Bruno, Knights of Columbus)
Catholic groups merge events for giant pro-life youth rally before March for Life
Jesuit scholastic Joseph Nolla distributes Communion during Mass celebrated Oct. 15, 2024, at the Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico. (OSV News photo/David Agren)
Migrants hope, pray to enter US ahead of presidential inauguration
Pope Francis shakes hands with a member of the Italian National Youth Council during a meeting at the Vatican Nov. 16, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope urges young people to be engaged in life, civic society
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U.S. bishops: 'We stand in firm solidarity' with immigrants
Father Augustus Tolton is pictured in an undated photo. Born into slavery in Missouri, he was ordained a priest April 24, 1886, in Rome and said his first Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. He is the first recognized African American priest ordained for the U.S. Catholic Church and is a candidate for sainthood. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Archdiocese of Chicago Archives and Records Center)
Holy Black Catholics: A glance at six African American candidates for canonization
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'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever' Review
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with a Federal Emergency Management Agency member Oct. 3, 2024, as he visits storm-damaged areas in Keaton Beach, Fla., in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall Sept. 26 in the Big Bend region of Florida, near the city of Perry. Helene was followed by Hurricane Milton, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to form in the Gulf of Mexico, Milton made landfall as a major Category 3 hurricane near Siesta Key in Sarasota Oct. 9. (OSV News photo/Tom Brenner, Reuters) .
After hurricanes comes the hard part for displaced Floridians
Pope Francis waves to visitors in St. Peter's Square gathered to pray the Angelus at the Vatican Nov. 10, 2024. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope urges leaders to serve with humility, care for vulnerable
The three new bells, including the Paris 2024 Olympics bell installed last summer at the Stade de France stadium for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, are displayed during a blessing ceremony at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Nov. 7. (OSV News photo/Sarah Meyssonnier, Reuters)
Notre Dame's choir is ready to sing again at home as cathedral's bells ring anew
Michelle Duppong is seen in the documentary "Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story," produced by Anderson Art. (OSV News photo/courtesy FOCUS)
Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story
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Thanking God for media technologies
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks during a news conference at a Nov. 14, 2023, session of the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore. Archbishop Broglio issued a USCCB statement Nov. 6, 2024, calling for prayer and unity following the results of the presidential election. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
US bishops' conference president calls for prayer, unity following the 2024 election
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Be on the lookout for hope; keep moving forward in faith, pope writes
This combo photo shows Edward "Eddie" Maurer III of Aurora, Colo., left, a Navy veteran and retired engineer, now 81; Mauer as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, center; and young Eddie at his confirmation at St. Brigid Church in Detroit in 1955, right. (OSV News photo/courtesy Edward Maurer)
Veteran is grateful for God's guiding presence in a life of faith and service
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey S. Grob is pictured in an undated photo. On Nov. 4, 2024, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Listecki and appointed Bishop Grob as his successor. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Chicago)
Milwaukee archbishop retires; pope names Chicago auxiliary as his successor
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