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Mexico's opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, waves during a visit to her hometown Tepatepec, Mexico, May 29, 2024, to close her campaign activities, ahead of the June 2 general election. (OSV News photo/Luis Cortes, Reuters)
Church calls for vote in polarized, violent Mexican election
Pope Francis meets with a delegation of Buddhist monks from Thailand at the Vatican May 27, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope tells Christians, Buddhists to work together for peace
Ukrainian youth pray on Apparition Hill (Mount Podbrdo) in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina during a May 19-27, 2024 pilgrimage for peace as Russia escalates attacks on their nation amid a war now in its 11th year. (OSV News/Sister Lucia Murashko/Oksana Dmyterko)
Amid horrors of war, Ukrainian youth make pilgrimage to Medjugorje, praying for peace
Pope Francis greets a boy outside the Rome parish of St. Bernadette Soubirous where he met with teenagers and young adults for an edition of his "School of Prayer" initiative May 24, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Joining teens, young adults, pope talks about search for meaning
Participants attend the International Congress on Youth Ministry May 23, 2024, at a conference center in Ciampino, outside Rome. (CNS photo/courtesy of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life)
Youth Ministry Congress emphasizes need to listen to young people
Pope Francis recognized May 23, 2024, the second miracle needed for the canonization of Italian Blessed Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15. He is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Sainthood Cause of Carlo Acutis)
Pope recognizes miracle needed for church's first 'millennial' saint
An unassuming stream - just 18 feet across - pours forth from Lake Itasca, forming the start of the Mississippi River's winding flow down 2,552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. At this very point among the Northern Minnesota pines, Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens held high a golden monstrance on the afternoon of May 19, tracing the sign of the cross over the waters and the people gathered - a humble gesture pleading for a mighty river of grace to flow for the National Eucharistic Revival.
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage journeys begin on Pentecost, inviting torrents of grace on US
A pregnant woman is seen outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in this 2016 file photo. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, alongside other Catholic groups, filed suit May 22, 2024, against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for including abortion among final regulations for a law meant to add workplace protections for pregnant workers. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn, CNS)
US bishops sue EEOC over regulation adding abortion to pregnant worker protections
Father Charles Trullols carries the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament at the start of a Eucharistic procession through the streets of Washington May 18, 2024. Father Trullols, an Opus Dei priest, is director of the Catholic Information Center, which organized the procession and served as the starting point for the event. (OSV News photo/Katie Yoder, Our Sunday Visitor)
Eucharistic procession through streets of nation's capital draws hundreds of faithful
Volunteers clean up in Nevada, Iowa, May 21, 2024, after a tornado touched down the previous day. Iowa State Police confirmed a number of people had died May 21 in the town of Greenfield, a community of about 2,000 people 40 miles southwest of Des Moines. (OSV News photo/Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune/USA Today Network via Reuters)
'Even in bad times, God is good,' says pastor after devastating Iowa tornado
Pope Francis speaks to Italian bishops in the Vatican synod hall during the general assembly of the Italian bishops' conference May 20, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Synodality must become 'paradigm' for dioceses, pope tells bishops
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, walks through the ruins of buildings in Gaza City. He visited northern Gaza Strip May 16-19, 2024, during Pentecost. At a press conference May 20 following his return to Jerusalem, he said he found the small resilient community of the Holy Family Parish compound in Gaza City to have "steadfast faith" amid horrific destruction and constant bombardment. (OSV News photo/courtesy Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
Gaza parish community example of 'steadfast faith,' cardinal says
The handprints of children decorate a stylized version of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in the logo chosen for the first World Children's Day, which will be celebrated May 25-26 in Rome and at the Vatican. (CNS photo/courtesy World Children's Day)
Vatican expecting tens of thousands to celebrate World Children's Day
Gloria Purvis of America Media moderates the conversation during "Civilize It: Unifying a Divided Church," a virtual event sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops May 14, 2024. Participants include Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, top right; Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, bottom left; and Bishop Robert E. Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minn., bottom right. (OSV News screenshot/USCCB)
Voting involves acts of citizenship, faith and discernment, 'Civilize it' panelists say
Pope Francis greets people attending the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, the Vatican office in charge of safeguarding the Christian catacombs of Rome, during an audience at the Vatican May 17, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope encourages faithful to visit Rome's ancient catacombs during Holy Year
A night view shows the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris March 30, 2024, with a new spire topped by the rooster and the cross, as restoration works continued following the devastating fire of 2019. (OSV News photo/Gonzalo Fuentes, Reuters)
As cross and tower bells return to Notre Dame, firefighters' chaplain recalls battle to save icon
Joshua, Jessica, Jonathan, Lillian and Lucas Dahlberg pray together during Eucharistic adoration at Epiphany in Coon Rapids, Minn., May 2, 2024. They pray once a week at the chapel. Joshua began a remarkable recovery from a debilitating illness hours after he received his first Communion May 13, 2023. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Hours after his first Communion boy begins remarkable recovery from debilitating illness
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Actor Jonathan Roumie gives the commencement address during the graduation ceremony at The Catholic University of America in Washington May 11, 2024. (OSV News photo/Denny Henry, Catholic University of America)
To find true success in life, serve God first, actor Jonathan Roumie tells graduates
Father Nicholas G. DuPre (center), associate pastor at St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Abbeville, Louisiana, leads parishioners in prayer as a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle during a first Communion Mass May 11, 2024. (OSV News photo/St. Mary Magdalen live stream screenshot)
Louisiana first Communion Mass disrupted by gunman
Pope Francis attends a meeting dedicated to children and future generations at a conference on human fraternity in the Synod Hall at the Vatican May 11, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Peace in politics, in the world starts in people's hearts, pope says
Father Roger Landry, chaplain at Columbia University, elevates the Eucharist during Mass at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in New York City Oct. 11, 2022. Father Landry may be the reason 24 young people and several priests are walking thousands of miles across the U.S. this summer during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Pilgrim priest: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage helps reveal the church's 'deepest core'
Blessed Natalia Tulasiewicz is pictured in 1939 with students of Middle School of Ursuline Sisters of Poznan in Krakow, Poland. Tulasiewicz was a Polish wartime teacher who never ceased to bring up young people in knowledge and faith, despite the threat of arrest by Nazis. Caught by Germans, she was sent to Ravensbrück death camp, where she died April 30, 1945, a last group of people sent to the gas chamber as the Allied Forces were about to liberate the camp. (OSV News photo/courtesy Tulasiewicz family)
Catholic wartime teacher never abandoned her call, even under threat of arrest
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Forrest Tucker poses next to a clay bust of Father Augustus Tolton, at his home in Danville, Ind., March 20, 2024. Father Tolton, a candidate for sainthood, is the first recognized priest of African descent in the United States. He was declared "venerable" by Pope Francis in 2019. (OSV News photo/John Shaughnessy, The Criterion)
Sculptor known for honoring car racing greats turns attention to Father Tolton
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