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Sister Gemma del Duca, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa., is pictured in a file photo at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Sister Gemma, co-founder of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill, was awarded the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania Class of 2024 last September. The award honors women for their outstanding service and contributions to the Commonwealth. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)
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Votive candles and flowers are seen at the base of a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome's Gemelli hospital Feb. 19, 2025, where Pope Francis is being treated for double pneumonia. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
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After celebrating a 350th anniversary Mass for St. Mary Parish in Newport, Md., on Sept. 7, 2024, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory greets parishioners outside the church and plays Patty-Cake with a little boy, Gregory Skibinsky, held by his mother, Erica Skibinsky. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
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Pilgrims process from St. Theodore's Catholic Church through the town of Laporte, Minn., May 20, 2024, during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. (OSV News photo/Courtney Meyer)
10-state National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to go right through Iowa's 'Field of Dreams'
Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica for the Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture at the Vatican Feb. 16, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope calls artists to be 'custodians of the beatitudes' during Jubilee
The sculpture "Angels Unawares" is seen at The Catholic University of America in Washington April 22, 2022. The life-size sculpture, which depicts a group of migrants and refugees crowded on a boat, is a replica of the original one Pope Francis unveiled in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during the 2019 World Day of Migrants and Refugees. (OSV News/CNS file, Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)
US bishops thank Pope Francis for support amid 'struggle' on migration issues
Sts. Cyril and Methodius are depicted before Pope Adrian II to ask his blessing to use the Slavic language in their missionary work. Brothers born in Greece, the ninth-century missionaries formed the alphabet now known as Cyrillic. They are patrons of Europe. Their feast is Feb. 14. (CNS photo from Crosiers) (Jan. 31, 2000)
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A pilgrim carries a illuminated cross as he leads the traditional candlelit procession on Our Lady of Lourdes feast Feb. 11, 2024, in the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. Even though a pilgrimage peak was some months away, the shrine celebrated its wintery feast day in 2025 with a number of pilgrims who flocked to the mountain-based French holy site on the Feb. 11 anniversary of the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. (OSV News photo/courtesy Lourdes
The sick come to Lourdes to find peace, heal internally, US pilgrimage organizer says
Attendees gather at the AI Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris Feb. 10, 2025. The summit aimed to establish scientific foundations, solutions, and standards for a more sustainable AI that drives progress, environmental protection and the public interest. (CNS photo/courtesy of France Diplomatie - MEAE)
Pope: Without human control, AI could show its 'fearsome' side
Pope Francis greets a married couple and their children at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 30, 2023. In 2025, National Marriage Week USA is celebrated Feb. 7-14 and World Marriage Day, which is commemorated on the second Sunday of February, is celebrated Feb. 9. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Bishop Barron: Marriage 'a source of hope' and 'antidote to loneliness'
Worshippers pray during a weekly Sunday Mass at St. Martha Church in Uniondale, N.Y., Aug. 15, 2021. In-person Sunday Mass attendance in the U.S. is back to 2019 pre-pandemic levels of 24%, according to data from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, CNS)
US Sunday Mass attendance back to pre-pandemic levels
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A bride and groom pose for a photo outside St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York City following their wedding in 2022. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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David Faber, superintendent of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a recipient of one of the National Catholic Educational Association's President's Awards -- the Dr. Karen M. Ristau Innovations Award, recognizing an individual, school or program that has advanced the mission of Catholic education through an innovative program or approach. Faber is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy NCEA)
Educators awarded for innovative, faith-filled drive to advance Catholic schools
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) speaks to the media after being presented with the Lamar Hunt Trophy after the AFC Championship game against the Buffalo Bills at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium Jan. 26. (OSV News photo/Eric Hartline-Imagn Images and Denny Medley-Imagn Images)
Kansas City bishop eyes 'three-peat' for charity in bishops' Super Bowl LIX wager
Pope Francis sits alongside Queen Rania of Jordan, left, and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore during the world leaders’ summit on children’s rights at the Vatican Feb. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope will prepare papal document to help church promote children's rights
A file photo shows some of the more than 100 couples renew their wedding vows on World Marriage Day during a 2014 Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. World Marriage Day is observed Feb. 9. (OSV News file photo/Victor Aleman, Via Nueva)
Polka dancing, Hershey's Kisses and novenas for World Marriage Day
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Emergency personnel and divers work Jan. 30, 2025, in a search-and-rescue mission on the Potomac River in Washington after American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk Army helicopter late Jan. 29 while on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport for landing and crashed into the river. Sixty passengers and four crew members were aboard the jet, and three soldiers were on the helicopter. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
Pope sends condolences to families, US for midair collision near DC
Dancers wearing lion costumes perform during a midnight Lunar New Year celebration in the Manhattan borough of New York City’s Chinatown Jan. 28, 2025, marking the Year of the Snake. (OSV News photo/Adam Gray, Reuters)
Lunar New Year coinciding with Jubilee Year seen as time for 'change, renewal'
Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz, Poland, Archbishop Guido Filipazzi, who is apostolic nuncio to Poland, and Bishop Roman Pindel of Bielsko-Zywiec, Poland, recite a prayer in the name of Catholics during a Jan. 27, 2025, ceremony commemorating 80 years since the liberation of German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland. (OSV News/courtesy Diocese of Bielsko-Zywiec)
'God suffered a great deal in every single person' who was in Auschwitz, cardinal says
Chieko Noguchi, executive director of public affairs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, greets Pope Francis during a meeting with the presidents of bishops' communications committees and the directors of communications for bishops' conferences during a meeting at the Vatican Jan. 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Catholic communication must engage with the world, pope says
A priest offering the sacrament of reconciliation listens to a young woman at SEEK25 in Salt Lake City Jan. 3, 2025. Each year the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, known as FOCUS, holds the annual SEEK conference to bring together thousands of its campus missionaries and college students from across the nation. For 2025, it was held Jan. 1-5 in Salt Lake City and Jan. 2-5 in Washington. (OSV News photo/courtesy FOCUS)
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