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Pope Francis gives his blessing to visitors in St. Peter's Square after praying the Angelus at the Vatican Nov. 3, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope: Love is the most important commandment
Students at the newly established School of Fine Arts and Traditional Trades of the Fabbrica di San Pietro use a hammer and chisel on a wall at the Vatican March 29, 2023. The six-month program is dedicated to encouraging young people to practice traditional crafts and skills that risk dying out. (CNS photo/courtesy of Fabbrica di San Pietro)
New students at Vatican's school for artisans include an American
A woman becomes emotional as she prays with a rosary during Eucharistic adoration following the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life Jan. 19, 2023, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Host of new 'The Rosary in a Year' podcast hopes people 'fall in love' with the prayer
Michelle Duppong is seen in the documentary "Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story," produced by Anderson Art. (OSV News photo/courtesy FOCUS)
Documentary profiles a possible future saint
This is a bronze coin titled "Dante before the Mountain of Purgatory [reverse], late 15th century." (OSV News photo/Samuel H. Kress Collection via National Gallery of Art)
What All Souls' Day is all about
Emmanuel Sister Gladys Ndege, left, helps cut the cake to celebrate the graduates of the 2023-24 cohort for the Hilton-Hekima Sisters Scholars Program at Hekima University College in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2024. The cohort of religious sisters had completed a one-year online certificate course in theology.(OSV News photo/courtesy of Religious Sisters Communicators' Foundation Uganda via Global Sisters Report)
Brigidine Sisters care care for Cuba's poor and sick as nation suffers shortages, wage decline
Daniel Hernández Rabanales, seen in an Oct. 9, 2024, photo, has served migrants in Huixtla, Mexico, for 38 years. He says many migrants passing through southern Mexico are being kidnapped by criminal groups amid rising insecurity. (OSV News photo/David Agren)
Mexican lay couple help migrants amid rising dangers, difficulties
In a NCADDHM 2024 annual conference panel Oct. 9, 2024, in Miami led by Father Alejandro Lopez-Cardinale, pastor of St. Benedict Parish in Somerville, Massachusetts, far right, the following speakers discussed their viewpoints on "Synodality and the Pastoral Reality," left to right: Esther Garcia, ministry consultant on catechesis, disability and cultural iversity; Father Robert Mendez, chaplain for Courage International Inc.; Ingrid Delgado, associate director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Of
Synodality a theme for US Hispanic ministry professionals as they gather in Miami
A painting by Pompeo Batoni of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from 1767 is displayed in an ornate frame inside the Jesuit Church of the Gesù in Rome, Oct. 22, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Only love will save humanity, pope says in encyclical on Sacred Heart
Bishop Robert J. McClory (right) presents newly ordained Father Robert Ross (left) gifts of a chalice and communion plate as seminarian Gianni Ditola (center) looks on during the Mass of Ordination to the Priesthood and Diaconate on June 3 at the Cathedral of the Holy Angels in Gary. Also at the liturgy, Steven Caraher, of Munster, and Zachary Glick, of Highland, were ordained as transitional deacons. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)
Priestly Vocations: a bridge between heaven and earth
Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle, a member of the Synod of Bishops, speaks about the synod during an interview with Catholic News Service at the Pontifical North American College in Rome Oct. 24, 2024. (CNS photo)
Synod is lesson in moving at 'pace of the Holy Spirit,' archbishop says
Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, distributes Communion during Mass with synod participants at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 21, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Cardinal calls for communion, continued action as synod nears end
Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, center, speaks to the artist who made a mosaic with thoughts about the Synod of Bishops and prayers for the synod written by U.S. university students as Cardinal Mario Grech, kneeling, adds his prayer to the mosaic in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 18, 2024. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Synod leaders share lessons learned in listening with U.S. students
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks with Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops, before the start of a morning session of the synod in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 21, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Cardinal Fernández updates synod on study group focusing on women's roles
Shrine Jesus Falls Stations
Liturgical living is for adults, too
New York Procession Eucharist
Eucharistic procession takes Jesus through streets of a bustling Manhattan, past iconic NY sites
Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, fourth from left, stands next to Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external church relations for the Moscow Patriarchate, during a meeting in Moscow Oct. 16, 2024. (CNS photo/courtesy of Russian Orthodox Church, Department for External Church Relations)
Papal envoy visits Russia to discuss humanitarian situation in Ukraine
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, relator general of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, speaks during the morning session in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 15, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Synod begins looking at institutional changes to promote synodality
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Writing to new cardinals, pope urges them to be compassionate shepherds
Lay missionary Josseline Montes Jiménez, right, teaches religious acclamations to members of Los Monckis, a street gang, during a May 18, 2023, visit to their hangout in Monterrey, Mexico. The Catholic Church’s annual World Mission Sunday observance, which is Oct. 20, 2024, is a day to renew the church's commitment to missionary work and to show solidarity with those who share the faith overseas. (OSV News photo/Nuri Vallbona, Global Sisters Report)
World Mission Sunday reminds Catholics of 'our connection' to faithful around globe, priest says
Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope and Zelenskyy discuss repatriation of Ukrainian captives
Ethel Kennedy, pictured in a 2012 photo, died at age 96 Oct. 10, 2024, according to her family. The wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy raised the couple's 11 children after he was assassinated June 6, 1968, and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter. (OSV News photo/Lucas Jackson, Reuters)
Family announces death of Ethel Kennedy at 96; she was devoted to family, slain husband's legacy
A monstrance owned by Father Chuck Dornquast, vocations director for the Diocese of St. Petersburg , Fla., is seen in an undated photo. Father Dornquast traveled Oct. 8, 2024, across town to a local historical site in St. Petersburg to offer an outdoor Holy Hour and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in advance of Hurricane Milton's expected landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast late Oct. 9. (OSV News photo/courtesy Father Chuck Dornquast)
Ahead of Hurricane Milton, St. Petersburg priest checks in with neighbors
Belgian Deacon Geert De Cubber, a member of the Synod of Bishops on synodality, speaks during a news conference at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2024. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)
Synod seeks to expand consultations on women's ministry, diaconate
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Service of Charity and papal almoner, stands with a basket at the entrance of the Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, where Synod on Synodality delegates meet, to collect alms on Oct. 7, 2024, the first anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel and subsequent Israel-Hamas war. That same night the funds were received by Vatican's embassy in Jerusalem and were transferred to the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City. (OSV News photo/courtesy Dicastery for
Pope sends $67,000 to Gaza parish, with $35,000 raised in one day from synod delegates
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