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A teacher at Gaza City's Holy Family Parish is seen July 22, 2024, in a classroom with children set up as part of the St. Joseph educational project for the 150 Christian youth sheltering at the parish compound and at the nearby Greek Orthodox church compound. The project initially started in May but was suspended following Israeli bombardments of the school compound in early July. (OSV News photo/courtesy Father Gabriel Romanelli)
Gaza parish preps for school year; students haven't been in classroom since October
Astronaut Mike Hopkins speaks July 21, 2024, during the final day of the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
National congress sends forth Catholics to ignite new Pentecost as Eucharistic missionaries
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Eucharistic pilgrimage planned for 2025, next congress before 2033
The liturgical furniture designed by designer and sculptor Guillaume Bardet, is composed of five elements in the restored Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris: the altar, the cathedra and the associated seats, the ambo, the tabernacle and the baptistery. Each of the pieces was designed in sculpted bronze, a material offering a powerful, timeless and luminous aesthetic. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Paris, Guillaume Bardet)
In the midst of Olympic craze in Paris, Notre Dame guide's advice is: Watch the beauty of the cathedral
Indianapolis Archbishop Charles C. Thompson celebrates a Mass to welcome pilgrims at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis July 16, 2024, just ahead of the National Eucharistic Congress. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
10 reasons we 'have to' go to Mass
Father Mike Schmitz, director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Duluth, Minn., as well as the chaplain for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, speaks to media at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis July 18. Father Schmitz is also the host of the popular Ascension podcasts "Bible in a Year" and "Catechism in a Year." (OSV News photo/Gretchen R. Crowe)
Here are 5 ways Father Mike Schmitz says Catholics can be better evangelizers
Prelates and clergymen process following morning Mass at Lucas Oil Stadium July 18, 2024, during the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
National congress delves into the Eucharist as 'the greatest love story ever told'
Pilgrims pray during Eucharistic adoration at the opening revival night July 17, 2024, of the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
'Jesus, I trust in you': National Eucharistic Congress opens with a powerful holy hour
Supporters gather at a prayer rally in Georgetown, Texas, July 14, 2024, in support of former U.S. President Donald Trump, who was shot the previous day in an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa. In a briefing July 14, FBI officials told reporters they had yet to determine what motivated the shooter to open fire from a nearby rooftop, killing one spectator and critically injuring two others before he was shot dead by the Secret Service. The FBI believes the shooter acted alone. (OSV
Catholic, civic leaders call for peace, unity following Trump assassination attempt
 Pope Francis waves to visitors in St. Peter’s Square gathered to pray the Angelus at the Vatican July 14, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Church needs communion, harmony, moderation to be missionary, pope says
Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., chairman of the board of the National Eucharistic Congress, is pictured in a June 10, 2023, photo. On July 14, 2024, Bishop Cozzens assured congress attendees that they can expect a secure event July 17-21 in Indianapolis following the July 13 attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Bishop Cozzens: National Eucharistic Congress attendees can expect secure event
Father Francis J. Hoffman, also known as "Father Rocky" and director of Relevant Radio, the Catholic talk radio network, is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Relevant Radio)
Not attending the National Eucharistic Congress in person? Here's where to watch and listen
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Pilgrims from across the United States and its territories gather for a Mass at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 7, 2024, marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Neocatechumenal Way in the United States. (Photo by Gregory A. Shemitz, The Tablet)
Faithful fill Brooklyn arena to celebrate Neocatechumenal Way's 50th anniversary in US
Pope Francis speaks at the Generali Convention Center in Trieste, Italy, for an event during Italian Catholic Social Week on July 7, 2024. Also in the photo are Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops’ conference, left, and Archbishop Luigi Renna of Catania, Italy, right. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope: Indifference is a 'cancer of democracy'
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita gives a thumbs-up to a crowd in Carmel, Ind., gathered for the Indiana March for Life rally Jan. 22, 2021. Rokita and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb are seeing to resume the use of capital punishment in the state after obtaining the lethal drugs used in the practice after 15 years. (OSV News photo/Natalie Hoefer, The Criterion)
Catholic activists criticize Indiana's move to resume using capital punishment
A painting titled, "The Sick Child," by Edvard Munch from 1885. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons attribution only license CC BY 4.0 (CNS photo/CC by 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
Words matter: Vatican publishes 'lexicon' on end-of-life issues to aid debate
Father-and-son permanent deacons Jim and Kevin Hostutler stand with Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori following Kevin's ordination to the diaconate at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen May 6. (CNS photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review) See BALTIMORE-FATHER-SON-DEACONS May 9, 2017.
Love for Christ calls father and son to ordained ministry in Indianapolis Archdiocese
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Caregivers push the sick and disabled past Father Marko Rupnik's mosaics at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southwestern France in this May 16, 2014, file photo. Following accusations of spiritual, psychological or sexual abuse by multiple adult women against Father Rupnik, a Lourdes commission established in 2023 has wrapped up its consultative work and the mosaics will stay for now, the sanctuary announced July 2. But "it will eventually be necessary" to remove them, the bishop of Lourdes told the
Lourdes bishop says it 'will eventually be necessary' to remove Rupnik mosaics
Pope Francis blesses palliums - woolen bands worn by metropolitan archbishops to symbolize their authority and unity with the pope - during Mass for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Open the church's doors to evangelization, pope tells new archbishops
Visitors gather in St. Peter's Square to pray the Angelus with Pope Francis at the Vatican June 30, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope: Heaven is for 'everyone, everyone, everyone'
Altar servers adore the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph Church in Dalton, Ga., during a stop of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage June 23, 2024. (OSV News photo/Johnathon Kelso, The Georgia Bulletin)
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage chaplain marks 25th jubilee amid 'life-changing adventure'
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A participant prays during the closing Mass of the National Catholic Youth Conference at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Nov. 18, 2023. The National Eucharistic Congress will be held in the stadium July 17–21, 2024. (OSV News photo/Mike Krokos, The Criterion)
What to expect at the National Eucharistic Congress in July
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