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A file photo shows a catechumen being baptized during the Easter Vigil. France will see a record 17,800 catechumens baptized during the Easter Vigil April 19, 2025, including 10,384 adults and more than 7,400 young people ages 11 to 17, according to an annual survey by the National Service for Catechumens of the French bishops' conference. (OSV News photo/James Ramos, Texas Catholic Herald)
France to see a record 17,800 catechumens baptized at Easter, with requests still 'pouring in'
Christ, voiced by Oscar Isaac, appears in a scene from the animated movie "King of Kings." The OSV News classification is A-I -- general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (OSV News photo/Angel Studios)
Movie Review: The King of Kings
Pope Francis greets the faithful as he makes a surprise appearance in St. Peter's Square at the end of Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican April 13, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
On Palm Sunday, recovering pope says to carry the cross with compassion
An actor portrays Jesus Christ in a Passion play in Bydgoszcz, Poland, performed on Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023. The play brings new life to one of the first mass murders of World War II that took place in Bydgoszcz's Fordon neighborhood, dubbed the "Valley of Death.” The northwestern city will host the 24th annual performance of the play on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2025. (OSV News photo/courtesy organizers)
Passion play in Poland's 'Valley of Death' reminder of dark past, invincible Christian hope
Thousands of pilgrims process from All Souls Church in Alhambra, Calif., to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles April 5, 2025. With the seven-mile pilgrimage taking place during the Catholic Church's Jubilee Holy Year, pilgrims had the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by participating in the event and fulfilling other conditions. (OSV News photo/Isabel Cacho, courtesy Los Angeles Archdiocese)
God fills 6,000 pilgrims 'with his graces' as they take to LA streets with prayer, witness
The tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis is seen in the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi, Italy, April 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)
In historic Assisi, pilgrims seek modern witness of holiness
Pope Francis, who is continuing to recover from pneumonia and a long hospitalization, blesses a baby as he makes a surprise visit to St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 10, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a handout video. (OSV News photo/Luiz Gil, Handout via Reuters)
Pope's visit to basilica is sign of improved health, press office says
Actress Patricia Heaton is pictured in an undated photo. In a recent episode of Our Sunday Visitor magazine partner podcast "Like a Mother with Katie McGrady," host Katie McGrady sat down with the Emmy-Award winning actress, renowned for her iconic roles in "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle."(OSV News photo/handout, Kate Romero)
How actor Patricia Heaton navigates faith, family and Hollywood success
A man is pictured in a file photo running up the stairs of St. Mary's Church before Mass in Tohatchi, N.M. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
10 reasons to come back to the Catholic Church
Volunteers instruct tourists and pilgrims on emergency resuscitation in Rome's Piazza del Risorgimento outside the Vatican during the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers April 5, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Tourists, pilgrims, religious learn CPR during Jubilee of the Sick
Pope Francis greets the faithful in St. Peter's Square at the end of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers at the Vatican April 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Ailing pope surprises pilgrims during Jubilee of the sick
Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is seen in this 2011 file photo. The disgraced former cardinal, removed from the clerical state in 2019 after revelations of credible allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct with adults, died April 3, 2025, in Missouri. He was 94. (OSV News photo/Morteza Nikoubazl, Reuters)
Disgraced former cardinal McCarrick dies at 94
Women wearing traditional dress present the offertory gifts to Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, president of the Slovak bishops' conference, during a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican with about 4,300 Holy Year pilgrims from Slovakia April 4, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Jubilee renewal of faith builds confidence in God's presence, pope says
Franciscan Father Tomaz Majcen, the only Catholic parish priest serving in Greenland, is seen with several of his parishioners at Christ the King Church in Nuuk, Greenland. (OSV News photo/Father Tomaz Majcen)
Greenland's only Catholic priest calls his 'rewarding, demanding' mission a 'dream job'
Jonathan Roumie, center, plays Christ in "The Chosen: Last Supper - Part 1," a theatrical release of the first two episodes of the TV series' fifth season. The OSV News classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association. (OSV News photo/Fathom)
'The Chosen' Season Five sets the table for Holy Week
Father Andrew Summerson, a professor at the Sheptytsky Institute in Toronto and pastor of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Whiting, Indiana, speaks at a book presentation at Rome's Pontifical Oriental Institute March 31, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Eastern Catholics help church be fully 'catholic,' speakers say
A group of pilgrims walk through St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on their way to the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica April 2, 2025. Pope Francis is convalescing and not able to meet the pilgrims. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Lord always goes in search of the lost, pope says
New York City Councilman Yusef Salaam holds a copy of the New York Daily News at the Notre Dame Law School March 24, 2025, opening day of the school's inaugural Death Penalty Abolition Week. Salaam was one of five teenagers eventually proven to have been wrongly convicted in the 1989 assault of a jogger in Central Park in a case that came to be known as the "Central Park Five" case. The Daily News headline story Sallam showed was on a juror in the trial acknowledging the mistake. (OSV News photo/Matt Cashor
Notre Dame Law School gathering makes case for abolishing death penalty
Promotional material, released April 1, 2025, highlights Pope Francis' video message and prayer intention for April: "For the use of new technologies." (CNS photo/courtesy of Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network)
Pope prays people stare less at screens, connect more face-to-face
Polish Father Dariusz Kowalczyk, president of the "Dzielo Nowego Tysiaclecia" ("The Work of a New Millenium") foundation, is seen in an undated photopgraph. The foundation was established in the Jubilee Year 2000 as a fruit of St. John Paul II's 1999 pilgrimage to Poland, and today, 20 years after the pontiff's death on April 2, 2005, it is considered the "best living monument" to him, granting scholarships to talented youth, who are everything from musicians to doctors, and inventors to sportsmen. (OSV New
Polish talent foundation 'best living monument' to St. John Paul II 20 years after his death
The uncovered facade of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary is pictured at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southwestern France in April 2023. The facade showcases the artwork of Father Marko Rupnik, a priest and former Jesuit, who is currently under investigation after accusations of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse by multiple adult women. Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes said March 31, 2025, that the sanctuary will cover the mosaics on the door of the basilica. (OSV News ph
Lourdes bishop covering Father Rupnik's mosaics on sanctuary's basilica doors
Visitors gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 30, 2025. Pope Francis did not pray the Angelus in the square because he is following doctors' orders to rest. The Vatican released a written message from the pope to accompany the Angelus. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
God's mercy is for everyone; everyone needs healing, pope writes
A reliquary containing what tradition holds is Jesus' crown of thorns is displayed during a ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris March 21, 2014. The crown, the most precious of the relics in Notre Dame's treasury, was saved from the flames of the April 15, 2019, fire. (OSV News photo/Philippe Wojazer, Reuters)
Lenten lectures are back at Notre Dame, marking a 'grand retour' of a Parisian classic
Pope John Paul II, who later became St. John Paul II, blesses a baby during an annual baptism liturgy in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Jan. 13, 2002. (OSV News photo from Catholic Press Photo)
30 years later: St. John Paul II's enduring challenge to culture in 'Evangelium Vitae'
A migrant farmworker cleans the fields in the Salinas Valley near Salinas, Calif., March 30, 2020. National Farmworkers Awareness Week is celebrate during the week of March 25-31, 2025. (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
Special week puts focus on how food gets to Americans' tables - through farmworkers' labor
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