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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)
5 things to know about the sacrament of reconciliation
Craig and Laura Schlattmann from Tacoma, Washington, smile at each other as they pose for a photo in Rome Jan. 23, 2025. The Schlattmanns are volunteers assisting with Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Guiding souls: Jubilee volunteers lead pilgrims across Holy Door
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, delivers a homily to fellow bishops attending the opening Mass of the USCCB's fall plenary assembly Nov. 11, 2024, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. (OSV News photo file/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
USCCB president calls Trump orders on migration, death penalty 'deeply troubling'
Pope Francis speaks to Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran leaders in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 20, 2025, during their annual pilgrimage to Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
All Christians called to witness God's love, source of hope, pope says
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory receives offertory gifts from a young woman during a Mass Jan. 19, 2025, celebrated at Holy Family Church in Hillcrest Heights, Md., to commemorate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At right is Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr., one of the concelebrants at the Mass. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year, was Jan. 20. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
Rev. King's legacy involves 'uniting our nation as one community of hope,' cardinal says 
Released Israeli hostage Doron Steinbrecher embraces loved ones at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Jan. 19, 2025, after being held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, in this handout image obtained by Reuters. (OSV News photo/Maayan Toaf/GPO/Handout via Reuters)
As ceasefire starts, first Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners return home
Pope Francis poses for a photo with Argentine priests living in Rome during a meeting at the Vatican Jan. 16, 2025. Earlier in the day, the pope fell and hurt his right arm; while nothing was broken, he is wearing a sling as a "precautionary measure," the Vatican said. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Priesthood is a gift meant to be given for others, pope says
Days after a wildfire destroyed their apartment and all their earthly belongings, Raul and Claudia De La Rosa have only one thing to lean on in the face of adversity: their Catholic faith.
'God does things for a reason,' says pregnant mom of 4 who lost home in LA's Eaton Fire
Supporters of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy head of the military council and head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, arrive a meeting in Aprag village, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Khartoum, Sudan, June 22, 2019. (OSV News photo/Umit Bektas, Reuters)
US declares genocide in Sudan as country undergoes 'unimaginable' suffering
The sun shines through a statue of Christ on a grave marker alongside an American flag at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Appleton, Wis., in this 2018 photo. A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued Jan. 16, 2025, identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined as both threats and opportunities, for religious liberty. (OSV News file photo/Bradley Birkholz)
US bishops report flags 5 top areas of 'critical concern' on religious liberty
U.S. President Joe Biden talks with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican Oct. 29, 2021. Biden spoke with the pope from the White in Washington Jan. 11, 2025, and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. Biden had been scheduled to have an audience with the pope during a Jan. 9-12 trip to Rome but the president canceled the trip amid the California wildfires. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Biden awards pope Presidential Medal of Freedom, nation's highest civilian honor
Pope Francis baptizes a baby during Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 12, 2025, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Best gift a child can receive is faith, pope says at baptisms
An undated painting of religious Sister Clare Crockett is seen as the diocesan phase of her sainthood cause was officially opened in Madrid's Cathedral of Alcalá de Henares on Jan. 12, 2025. (OSV News photo/courtesy Facebook Sister Clare Crockett)
Sister Clare Crockett, who lived 'exceptional, holy life,' begins road to sainthood as cause opens
Pope Francis greets Georgios F. Poulides, the ambassador of Cyprus to the Holy See and dean of the diplomatic corps, during the annual meeting with diplomats accredited to the Holy See in the Hall of Blessing in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope to diplomats: Sweep away 'clouds of war,' let 'winds of peace' blow
Flames rise from a structure as the Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles Jan. 8, 2025. Firefighters battled early Jan. 9 to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. (OSV News photo/Ringo Chiu, Reuters)
Catholics rally to aid LA wildfire victims
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Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, front right, and other U.S. bishops from Ohio and Michigan concelebrate Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 9, 2019. Bishop Thomas, chair of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, will be among the speakers at the 52nd annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 24, 2025. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
March for Life speakers to include DeSantis, Bishop Thomas 
Franciscan friars gather in September 2024 in Racine, Wis., at a regional synodal meeting. From Jan. 14-17, 2025, about 200 Franciscan friars of the Atlanta-based Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe will gather in Kansas City, Mo., with their ministry partners for a "Franciscan Provincial Synod" focusing on their charism, lifestyle and mission. (OSV News photo/courtesy Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe)
Ahead of US Franciscans' synod, friars say 'communal discernment' long-held tradition for order
Women religious listen to a lecture titled "Mental Health: Moving Past the Taboo to a Culture of Acceptance" Jan. 28, 2023, during the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington, where the 2025 CSMG will take place Jan. 25-28 under the theme, "Missionaries of Hope, Advocates for Justice." (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Catholic Social Ministry Gathering to return with a mandate for building hope
A visitor touches the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2024, after it was opened by Pope Francis during Christmas Mass the night prior to mark the start of the Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
St. Peter's Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks
Cesar, a pilgrim from Mexico, walks on the San Antolin beach in Llanes, Spain, Sept. 24, 2022, while continuing his pilgrimage along El Camino de Santiago del Norte. According to the pilgrims' office in Santiago de Compostela, a record 499,239 pilgrims from all over the world walked Spain's famed Camino in 2024. (OSV News photo/Nacho Doce, Reuters)
Spain's famed Camino wraps up the year with a record half million pilgrims
Sue Holzbauer and her daughter, Bailey Thompson, look through a scrapbook of gingerbread houses they have created in the past in this undated photo. When they heard that the new St. Mary's School was being built in Breckenridge, Minn., they decided that it would be their gingerbread "house" to build in 2024. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
Mother-daughter duo's gingerbread replica of long-awaited new Catholic school 'a labor of love'
Police officers stand at the scene where a truck drove into a large crowd on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans Jan. 1, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a video. A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, ramming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens before being shot to death by police, authorities said. (OSV News photo/ABC Affiliate WGNO/Handout via Reuters)
New Orleans archbishop offers prayer and support for victims of 'evil' deadly New Year attack
Pope Francis speaks in a video recorded to present his prayer intention for the month of January, "For the right to an education," published Jan. 2, 2025. (CNS screengrab/courtesy Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network)
Migrants, refugees, victims of war have a right to education, pope says
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