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Pro-life advocates gather for the 50th annual national March for Life in Washington Jan. 20, 2023. Catholics and other members of the pro-life movement are converging in Washington for the annual March for Life Jan. 19, 2024, under the theme "With Every Woman, For Every Child." (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
March for Life 2024 aims to make abortion 'unthinkable' in American culture
Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, then president of the University of Notre Dame, second from left, joins hands with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Edgar Chandler and Msgr. Robert J. Hagarty of Chicago, far right, in this 1964 file photo. As Rev. King taught, "we must confront the evils of racism and prejudice with the love of Christ," Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a Jan.
Broglio: Reflect on Rev. King's 'rallying cry' to confront today's 'evils of racism'
A woman becomes emotional as she prays with a rosary during Eucharistic adoration following the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life Jan. 19, 2023, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. From Jan. 16-24, 2024, the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities is inviting Catholics nationwide to pray "9 Days for Life." The annual Respect Life novena encompasses observance of the annual Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children, which
US Catholics urged to pray novena for life Jan. 16-24
The baldachin, or canopy, standing over the tomb of St. Peter is seen in in this file photo taken in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Canopy over main altar of St. Peter's Basilica to undergo restoration
Pope Francis waves to diocesan priests who are members of the Missionary Priests of the Kingship of Christ Secular Institute at the end of an audience with the group in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 11, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Take off your slippers, go out, share the faith, pope says
A nurse and newborns are seen in the Hotel Venice in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 14, 2020, which is owned by BioTexCom, a surrogacy agency. Pope Francis told diplomats Jan. 8, 2024, that he finds surrogacy "deplorable" and would like to see the practice universally banned. (OSV News photo/Gleb Garanich, Reuters)
USCCB affirms pope's description of surrogacy as turning a child into 'an object of trafficking' 
Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau, Germany, speaks Jan. 4, 2024, during the SEEK24 conference at America's Center Convention Complex in St. Louis. More than 23,000 participants attended the Jan. 1-5 conference held by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. (OSV News photo)
'Come and help us!' German bishop tells young Catholics at SEEK24
Pope Francis baptizes a baby during Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 7, 2024, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Faith is a gift to celebrate, pope says as he baptizes babies
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, patroness of Catholic schools in the U.S., is depicted instructing schoolchildren in a sculpture seen in front of Sts. Philip and James School in St. James, N.Y. Her Jan. 4 feast day in 2024 kicked off a two-year commemoration of both Mother Seton's milestone birthday and the 50th anniversary of her canonization, which will fall in 2025. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Gregory A. Shemitz)
Mother Seton a 'seeker, servant and saint' more relevant than ever, says shrine director
Pope Francis gives his blessing to a group of young Catholics and organizers from the France-based Missionary Fraternity of the Cities at the Vatican Jan. 4, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope tells young people to sow peace in the peripheries
Actor and comedian Rob Schneider, in an undated courtesy photo, spoke with Our Sunday Visitor about his 2023 conversion to Catholicism. (OSV News photo/courtesy Rob Schneider)
Rob Schneider opens up about his Catholic conversion and the life of faith
A depiction of a woman leaping into the new year with enthusiasm. (OSV News photo/Mohamed Hassan)
Five events in 2024 to help us be better Catholics 
Pope Francis greets children dressed as the Magi as he accepts the offertory gifts during Mass for the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and World Peace Day on New Year's Day in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 1, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Church and world must 'respect, defend, esteem' women, pope says
Archbishop Patrick C. Pinder of Nassau, Bahamas, meets with a Catholic Charities and Catholic communications delegation at his offices to discuss recovery progress following the Category 5 Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Dorian struck the Bahamas in early September of that year and has been characterized as the worst cyclone to ever strike the islands, with sustained winds of 185 mph. (OSV News photo/Tom Tracy)
Miami delegation assesses progress in Bahamas since 2019 hurricane
Pope Francis blows out the candles on his birthday cake in this file photo from an audience with children assisted by the Vatican's pediatric clinic in the Paul VI Audience Hall Dec. 17, 2023, his 87th birthday. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Papal calendar for 2024: Not full, but puts spotlight on major events
Pope Francis prays in front of a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes during a meeting with UNITALSI, an Italian Catholic association that organizes pilgrimages for the sick and for people with disabilities, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Dec. 14, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
The pope's 2023: A year of health challenges, travel and the synod
New York Auxiliary Bishop Edmund J. Whalen, right, consoles the daughters of Hamas hostage Ron Benjamin Dec. 13, 2023. Benjamin, 53, was kidnapped by Hamas fighters Oct. 7 while riding his bicycle not far from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. (OSV News photo/Steven Schwankert, The Good Newsroom)
'Don't give up,' NY bishop urges survivors of Hamas attack, families of hostages
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Charity, arrive in Bethlehem, on the West Bank, Dec. 24, 2023, to mark Christmas celebrations at a difficult time for Palestinian Christians amid ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (OSV News photo/courtesy Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
'Jesus, you take over,' papal envoy cried out in Bethlehem amid wartime Christmas celebrations
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd during his Christmas "urbi et orbi" -- to the city and to the world -- message and blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 25, 2009. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Remembering, and missing, Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Francis poses for a photo with Msgr. Armando Matteo, left, secretary of the doctrinal section of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, dicastery prefect, during a meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Dec. 18, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Doctrinal dicastery explains how, when gay couples can be blessed
A billboard towering over Fort Street near Cass Avenue in downtown Detroit, pictured Dec. 13, 2023, encourages drivers and passersby to discover Jesus' presence in the holy Eucharist. Part of the Detroit Archdiocese's I AM HERE campaign, the billboard invited viewers to visit the website iamhere.org to discover its message -- about Jesus -- and find testimonials of individuals whose lives have been changed by Eucharistic adoration. The billboard was on display from Nov. 14 to mid-December, but the I AM HERE
'I AM HERE' campaign invites all to discover Christ's real presence in Eucharist
Pope Francis gets a hug from a girl playing an angel in a living Nativity scene in Rome after an audience Dec. 16, 2023, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Celebrating the Incarnation, remember Bethlehem, too, pope says
Christmas baking begins in earnest during the Advent season, but how many of us think a Christmas cookie is just a cookie if eaten early? (OSV News photo/Jill Wellington, Pixabay)
Making spirits bright when you won't be home for the holidays
Len Vanden Bos, chaplain of the Buffalo Bills, is pictured in an undated photo praying with a player. While an Orchard Park-based Catholic priest frequently leads Saturday-evening Masses for the Catholics on the team, Vanden Bos - a nondenominational Christian - is entrusted with the task of providing pastoral care for the team on a daily basis. (OSV News photo/courtesy Len Vanden Bos)
Backed by Catholic clergy, Buffalo Bills chaplain provides rare full-time pastoral care
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