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An undated painting of religious Sister Clare Crockett is seen as the diocesan phase of her sainthood cause was officially opened in Madrid's Cathedral of Alcalá de Henares on Jan. 12, 2025. (OSV News photo/courtesy Facebook Sister Clare Crockett)
Sister Clare Crockett, who lived 'exceptional, holy life,' begins road to sainthood as cause opens
U.S. President Joe Biden talks with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican Oct. 29, 2021. Biden spoke with the pope from the White in Washington Jan. 11, 2025, and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. Biden had been scheduled to have an audience with the pope during a Jan. 9-12 trip to Rome but the president canceled the trip amid the California wildfires. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Biden awards pope Presidential Medal of Freedom, nation's highest civilian honor
Pope Francis baptizes a baby during Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 12, 2025, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Best gift a child can receive is faith, pope says at baptisms
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, front right, and other U.S. bishops from Ohio and Michigan concelebrate Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 9, 2019. Bishop Thomas, chair of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, will be among the speakers at the 52nd annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 24, 2025. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
March for Life speakers to include DeSantis, Bishop Thomas 
Pope Francis greets Georgios F. Poulides, the ambassador of Cyprus to the Holy See and dean of the diplomatic corps, during the annual meeting with diplomats accredited to the Holy See in the Hall of Blessing in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope to diplomats: Sweep away 'clouds of war,' let 'winds of peace' blow
Flames rise from a structure as the Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles Jan. 8, 2025. Firefighters battled early Jan. 9 to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. (OSV News photo/Ringo Chiu, Reuters)
Catholics rally to aid LA wildfire victims
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Cesar, a pilgrim from Mexico, walks on the San Antolin beach in Llanes, Spain, Sept. 24, 2022, while continuing his pilgrimage along El Camino de Santiago del Norte. According to the pilgrims' office in Santiago de Compostela, a record 499,239 pilgrims from all over the world walked Spain's famed Camino in 2024. (OSV News photo/Nacho Doce, Reuters)
Spain's famed Camino wraps up the year with a record half million pilgrims
Franciscan friars gather in September 2024 in Racine, Wis., at a regional synodal meeting. From Jan. 14-17, 2025, about 200 Franciscan friars of the Atlanta-based Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe will gather in Kansas City, Mo., with their ministry partners for a "Franciscan Provincial Synod" focusing on their charism, lifestyle and mission. (OSV News photo/courtesy Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe)
Ahead of US Franciscans' synod, friars say 'communal discernment' long-held tradition for order
Women religious listen to a lecture titled "Mental Health: Moving Past the Taboo to a Culture of Acceptance" Jan. 28, 2023, during the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, where the 2025 CSMG will take place Jan. 25-28 under the theme, "Missionaries of Hope, Advocates for Justice." (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Catholic Social Ministry Gathering to return with a mandate for building hope
A visitor touches the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2024, after it was opened by Pope Francis during Christmas Mass the night prior to mark the start of the Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
St. Peter's Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks
Pope Francis speaks in a video recorded to present his prayer intention for the month of January, "For the right to an education," published Jan. 2, 2025. (CNS screengrab/courtesy Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network)
Migrants, refugees, victims of war have a right to education, pope says
Sue Holzbauer and her daughter, Bailey Thompson, look through a scrapbook of gingerbread houses they have created in the past in this undated photo. When they heard that the new St. Mary's School was being built in Breckenridge, Minn., they decided that it would be their gingerbread "house" to build in 2024. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
Mother-daughter duo's gingerbread replica of long-awaited new Catholic school 'a labor of love'
Police officers stand at the scene where a truck drove into a large crowd on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a video. A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, ramming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens before being shot to death by police, authorities said. (OSV News photo/ABC Affiliate WGNO/Handout via Reuters)
New Orleans archbishop offers prayer and support for victims of 'evil' deadly New Year attack
Rescue workers take part in a salvage operation at the site where an aircraft crashed after it went off the runway at Muan International Airport, in Muan, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2024. (OSV News photo/Kim Hong-Ji, Reuters)
Pope Francis, bishops pray for families of those who perished in South Korean plane crash
St. John Paul II addresses a press conference with President Jimmy Carter in the Rose Garden at the White House Oct. 6, 1979. Carter died Dec. 29, 2024, at 100, at his home in Plains, Georgia. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Chris Sheridan)
Jimmy Carter, first president to host a pope at the White House, dies at 100
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Pope Francis crosses the threshold of the Holy Door of the Church of Our Father at Rome’s Rebibbia prison before presiding over a Mass with inmates, prison staff, and Italian government officials Dec. 26, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Don't lose hope, pope says as he opens Holy Door at Rome prison
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Parishioners hold ornamental lanterns called parols at St. Julie Billiart Catholic Church in San Jose, Calif., during a “Simbang Gabi” kick-off Mass Dec. 14, 2024. Simbang Gabi is a nine-day series of Masses celebrated by Filipino Catholics leading up to Christmas Day. The parols are said to be symbols of the Star of Bethlehem and are used to lead the processions before Mass during the celebration. (OSV News photo/David Maung)
Filipino Simbang Gabi Masses more and more rooted in the US
A wax figure of actor Jimmy Stewart is seen with a painted backdrop resembling a scene from "It's A Wonderful Life" at Madame Tussauds Hollywood during a press preview June 11, 2009. (OSV News photo/Fred Prouser, Reuters)
Glory to the newborn King
Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., chairman of the board of the National Eucharistic Congress Inc., blesses pilgrims July 17, 2024, during adoration at the opening revival night of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
National pilgrimage, congress stand out as 2024 highlights for US church
Pope Francis closes the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica before a Mass to conclude the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy at the Vatican Nov. 20, 2016. In concluding the Holy Year, the pope called for mercy to become a permanent part of the lives of believers. (CNS photo/Maria Grazia Picciarella)
Pope Francis' 2024: Turning 88, praying for peace, presiding over synod
A family leaves the scene of a mass shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., Dec. 16, 2024. At least two people are dead, in addition to the suspect, and others are injured, after the mass shooting, police said. (OSV News photo/Cullen Granzen, Reuters)
 3 dead, including teen suspect, in mass shooting at Wisconsin Christian school
Pope Francis speaks to local bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons and seminarians during a meeting with the local Catholic community at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Ajaccio, France, Dec. 15, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope praises popular piety during first-ever papal Mass in Corsica
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