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Young people and others gather for prayer behind the Church of St. James in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this file photo from the 2024 international youth festival known as Mladifest. Pope Leo XIV sent a message to this year's festival, which is being held Aug. 4-8, 2025. (CNS photo/Courtesy Mladifest)
Journey together, seek real encounters, pope advises young people
Members of a rescue team search through rubble of destroyed buildings in Beirut's port area Sept. 4, 2020, one month after a massive explosion. The blast killed more than 200 people, injured some 7,000 others and displaced more than 300,000. (OSV News photo/Aziz Taher, Reuters)
Lebanese Catholic clergy commemorate Beirut port explosion victims five years later
American consecrated virgin Annamaria Mix, seen in an undated photo, works at the Militia Immaculata Archive in the Niepokalanów Monastery in Poland. Polish Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe, the future saint and martyr, founded Niepokalanów and established the international Militia Immaculata, or MI movement, in Italy, of which Mix is a member. In 1931, Father Kolbe founded a monastery in Nagasaki, Japan, that survived the atomic blast of Aug. 9, 1945. (OSV News photo/courtesy Annamaria Mix)
Nagasaki Franciscan monastery that survived atomic blast still stands as messenger of peace
Pope Leo Jubilee of Youth
Pope Leo urges youth to find hope, friendship in Christ in uncertain times
Italian Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, a struggling student who excelled in mountain climbing, is seen in an undated photo. He had complete faith in God and persevered through college, dedicating himself to helping the poor and supporting church social teaching. He died at age 24 and was beatified by St. John Paul II in 1990. The Vatican announced June 13, 2025, that the canonization ceremony for Blessed Frassati will take place Sept. 7 and include Blessed Carlo Acutis. (OSV News photo/Catholic Press Photo)
Popular Pier Giorgio Frassati: A saint for ordinary Catholics
Young people attend a concert in Risorgimento Square in Rome July 29, 2025, during the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers. The event featured live music, dancing and international flags, with a large screen broadcasting images from earlier moments in the celebration. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Festival of digital missionaries celebrates faithful witness in the digital age
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile as he rides around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience July 30, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Learning to communicate with honesty, prudence can help heal world, pope says
Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen amid a hunger crisis in the central Gaza Strip July 29, 2025. (OSV News photo/Hatem Khaled, Reuters)
Gaza pastor: 'We remain in the hands of the Lord'
Denver-based multimedia artist Johnny Vrba is pictured inside the St. Hedwig church building of Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish on Chicago's northwest side July 23, 2025. Vrba was answering a boy's questions about a section of a mosaic of Blessed Carlo Acutis he created for the Chicago parish using more than 1,000 toy figurines. (OSV News photo/Simone Orendain)
Mosaic of 1,000-plus toy figures depicts Blessed Carlo's faith, devotion and computer savvy
Girls sing and pray at the jubilee pilgrimage of the Foundation "Dzielo Nowego Tysiaclecia" ("Work of the New Millenium") July 19, 2025, in Czestochowa, Poland. The annual pilgrimage and camp marked the 25th anniversary of the foundation, a vibrant "living memorial" to St. John Paul II, supporting talented youth from underprivileged backgrounds. (OSV News photo/courtesy Work of the New Millennium)
Poland's 'living memorial' to St. John Paul II marks 25 years of transforming lives
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami and Knights on Bikes pray the rosary for detainees at the entrance to Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial immigration detention facility in some 55 miles from Miami in the Florida Everglades, July 20, 2025. (OSV News photo/Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski)
Miami archbishop presses for pastoral visitation at Alligator Alcatraz
Artificial intelligence apps
Artificial Intelligence, wholeism and prayer
This is a poster from the movie "Smurfs." The OSV News classification is A-I -- general patronage. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. (OSV News photo/Paramount Pictures)
Movie Review: Smurfs
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, at a joint press conference with Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III about their visit to Gaza, given at the Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem July 22, 2025. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)
Christ is not absent from Gaza, but crucified in the wounded, patriarchs say after visit
Caption: Students hold placards and pictures of a victim as they protest  July 22, 2025, demanding the actual number of the death toll after an air force training aircraft crashed into a building belonging to Milestone School and College in Dhaka, Bangladesh July 21. (OSV News photo/Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Reuters)
Catholic Church mourns deaths in Bangladesh military plane crash
Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi speaks Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War July 16, 2025, which was held at the University of Chicago July 14-16. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Jean Lachat)
Cardinal Tomasi: Religious communities can play key roles in nuclear disarmament
Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a priest who was found stabbed to death in a targeted attack Feb. 14, 2025, is seen in an undated photo. A court affiliated with Myanmar's exiled National Unity Government has sentenced nine men to 20 years in prison for killing Father Win in the country's conflict-torn Sagaing region earlier this year, according to Fides agency which reported the sentence July 17. (OSV News photo/courtesy Aid to the Church in Need)
Myanmar opposition court sentences 9 men to 20 years for killing priest
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors at the conclusion of the Angelus in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope: Summer marks time to balance busyness with rest, prayer, joy with loved ones
Austin Baron takes part in the Season 17 semifinals of “American Ninja Warrior” July 14, 2025 on NBC. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Trae Patton, NBC)
Catholic "American Ninja Warrior" fighting world hunger, one obstacle at a time
The intercession of Venerable Salvador Valera Parra, a 19th-century Spanish diocesan priest, has been credited by Pope Leo XIV for the miraculous recovery of critically-ill newborn Tyquan Hall in 2007 at a Rhode Island hospital, in a decree issued June 20, 2025. (OSV News photo/ Public domain via Wikipedia commons)
Rhode Island celebrates Pope Leo declaration that baby's healing was a true miracle
A student tries out the Blessed Carlo Acutis virtual reality experience at the Purpose Fest 2025 in Sydney July 2. Hundreds clamored in Sydney to be the first in the world to step into the groundbreaking virtual reality journey that transports attendees into the life and spiritual legacy of the young Blessed Carlo, who will be canonized Sept. 7 at the Vatican. (OSV News photo/Giovanni Portelli, courtesy The Catholic Weekly)
Into the mystery: How virtual reality is reimagining Catholic evangelization
Students from Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, N.J., and American veterans pause for a group picture in this undated photo. For the past 10 years, Seton Hall Prep's Veterans Service Club has allowed student participants to brighten vets' lives through volunteer work and social gatherings. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Jersey Catholic)
School club gives students chance to benefit veterans, fosters Gospel value of serving others
Pope Leo XIV speaks with U.S. visitors at his residence at the papal villa in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 17, 2025. The group was led by Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, who can be seen seated. The ecumenical pilgrimage included Rome, Istanbul -- formerly known as Constantinople -- and Iznik, Turkey, site of the ancient city of Nicaea. The journey commemorates both the Holy Year dedicated to hope and the 1700th anniversary of the Council
Filled with hope, Christians know cries of the innocent will be heard, pope says
Mourners attend the burial of Palestinian Christians Saad Salama and Foumia Ayyad at St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza July 17, 2025. The two parishioners were killed, according to medics, in an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Parish's compound. (OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Reuters)
Pope calls for ceasefire, dialogue, peace after church hit in Gaza
Jonah Hauer-King, Sarah Pidgeon, Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline and Tariq Withers star in a scene from the movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer." The OSV News classification is O – morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. (OSV News photo/Columbia Pictures)
Movie Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer
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