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Lee Kiefer, a 2017 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, poses with her Olympic gold medals in individual (foil event) and team fencing Aug. 7, 2024, at Champions Park in Paris. (OSV News photo/Thibaud Moritz, pool via Reuters)
Alumni of Notre Dame, Loyola University Chicago shine at Paris Olympics
Pope Francis shares a moment with members of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary during a meeting at the Vatican Aug. 12, 2024, with members of four religious orders holding their general chapter meetings in Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Life's 'final exam' will be on care for poor, pope says
The Aug. 9 passenger plane crash in the city of Vinhedo, Brazil killed all 62 on board, greatly touching different Catholic communities in the country.
Catholic communities impacted by airplane crash in Brazil
Pope Francis greets visitors at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 7, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
In times of trial know that nothing is impossible for God, pope says
A burned car is seen at the Ho'onanea condominium complex in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui Aug. 10, 2023. Lahaina's Maria Lanakila Catholic Church was spared from the flames that wiped out most of the surrounding community on Maui Aug. 8 and 9. (OSV News photo/Jorge Garcia, Reuters)
A year after historic Maui wildfires, community is resilient, optimistic even as needs persist
Bishop Paul Junmin Pei of Liaoning, China, distributes Communion during a Mass at St. Vincent DePaul Church -- concelebrated with Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and about 20 priests from China and the U.S. -- during a conference hosted by the US-China Catholic Church Association at Chicago's DePaul University Aug. 3, 2024. (OSV News photo/Simone Orendain)
Chinese Catholics gather in Chicago to discuss the church's challenges in China today
Pope Francis watches white rose petals falling from the ceiling of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major Aug. 5, 2024, for evening prayer on the feast of the basilica's dedication. According to tradition, on Aug. 5, 358, Mary had snow fall to mark the spot on Rome's Esquiline Hill where she wanted a church built in her honor. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Grace should cause awe, like a summer snowfall would, pope says
Katie Ledecky of United States celebrates on the podium after wining her ninth Olympic gold medal during the women's 800-meter freestyle Aug. 3, 2024, at Paris La Defense Arena. Ledecky is a graduate of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. (OSV News photo/Evgenia Novozhenina, Reuters)
American Olympic medalists in Paris known for leaning on faith
A group of young people pose for a photo at a temporary pilgrimage center in a Rome auditorium during the XIII International Pilgrimage of Altar Servers in Rome July 31, 2024. More than 50,000 altar servers from 20 countries went to Rome for the July 29-Aug. 2 pilgrimage. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Ready to serve: Altar servers reinforce ministry during Rome pilgrimage
A priest from St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Southfield, Mich., holds a relic of Blessed Solanus Casey during a procession following Mass at St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit July 30, 2024. (OSV News photo/Daniel Meloy, Detroit Catholic)
Detroit procession for Blessed Solanus Casey on feast day celebrates his humility, virtues
Pope Francis watches a brief performance during a visit to the "Luna Park di Ostia" amusement park in Ostia, Italy, July 31, 2024. He visited the park, which is an hour outside of Rome, to greet workers, their families and the two nuns providing pastoral care there. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope visits amusement park near Rome
Franciscan Father Paolo Benanti, an adviser to Pope Francis on ethics and technology, talks with Microsoft President Brad Smith about ethics and artificial intelligence during an event on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., July 23, 2024. Father Benanti is a member of the United Nations’ advisory body on artificial intelligence. (OSV News photo/courtesy Seattle University)
Papal adviser, head of Microsoft talk ethics and AI in conversation on tech giant's campus
Fr. Patrick Briscoe welcomes pilgrims to the National Eucharistic Congress
I have tasted revival
Before a July 25, 2024, pep rally at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md., students pose beside a large cutout poster of three of the school’s graduates -- Katie Ledecky (class of 2015), Phoebe Bacon (class of 2020) and Erin Gemmell (class of 2023) -- who are members of the U.S. swimming team competing in the Summer Olympics in Paris. (OSV News photo/ Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
Maryland Catholic high school roots for three alumnae swimming for US in Paris
An attendee of the National Eucharistic Congress kneels in prayer July 19, 2024, before relics of St. Manuel Gonzalez, known as the "bishop of the abandoned tabernacle," in the congress's relic chapel at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)
Despite long wait, chance to venerate saints' relics offers 'graces' for congress-goers
A reflection of the Eiffel Tower is seen in the Seine River in Paris July 25, 2024. (OSV News photo/Esa Alexander, Reuters)
Here are 9 Parisian saints to accompany Catholics during Olympics, reopening of Notre Dame
Pilgrims pray during a July 19, 2024, Encounter impact session at Lucas Oil Stadium during the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Congress calls on Catholics to 'Walk with One,' evangelize through 'spiritual companionship'
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
Olympian Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is pictured competing in her opening heat in the 400-meter hurdles during the World Athletics Championships July 19-22, 2022, at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. The athlete, a 2017 graduate of Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, N.J., once again shattered her own world record in the Summer Olympic trials June 30, 2024, to secure her place on Team USA for the Paris Olympics. (OSV News photo/Wikipedia via Archdiocese of Newark) U
Alum of NJ Catholic high school heads to Olympics after shattering own hurdles world record
Actor Bob Newhart laughs after delivering story during a tribute to Newhart at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., March 2, 2001. (OSV News photo/Gary C., Reuters)
Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart
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
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