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Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, is seen Feb. 26, 2019, at the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Bishop Seitz, who chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration, is one of the hosts for an March 21 El Paso event called "Do Not Be Afraid: March and Vigil for Human Dignity," which protests what organizers called "dehumanizing laws and policies" toward migrants. (OSV News photo/David Agren)
Texas Catholics plan march, vigil against 'dehumanizing' migration laws, policies
A now-closed historic church in Newry, Northern Ireland, with a graveyard dissected by the border with the Irish Republic, is seen Feb. 27, 2023. All Catholic parish communities are on alert throughout Ireland as Irish police search for armed raiders who broke into a church rectory in the Kilcurry parish in the Archdiocese of Armagh. (OSV News photo/Lorraine O'Sullivan, Reuters).
Irish police investigate a number of incidents concerning church burglaries
Pope Francis leads members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in praying for migrants and refugees in front of the statue, "Angels Unawares," in St. Peter's Square Oct. 19, 2023. The sculpture by Canadian Timothy Schmalz, depicts a boat with 140 figures of migrants from various historical periods and various nations. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope urges the church to see the face of Christ in migrants
Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops start a working session in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 18, 2023. Five U.S. priests will travel to Rome April 28-May 2, 2024, to share their experiences of parish life with the ongoing Synod of Bishops on synodality. The five were selected by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as part of a 300-member worldwide delegation. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
5 U.S. priests tapped to share pastoral insights for the Synod on Synodality
Players battle for the ball at the opening tip-off between the Marquette Golden Eagles and the Connecticut Huskies at Madison Square Garden in New York City March 16, 2024. The Golden Eagles are one of seven Catholic schools who made the cut for the 2024 Men's basketball NCAA tournament, which starts when the "First Four" play-in games on March 19. Mandatory Credit: (OSV News photo/Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports via Reuters)
7 Catholic schools dancing in this year's March Madness
Pope Francis shares a playful moment with a child during a meeting with staff and patients from the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall March 16, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Medical advances must be at service of those most in need, pope says
A crucifix and Bible are pictured on purple cloth during Lent at Jesus the Good Shepherd Church in Dunkirk, Md., April 7, 2022. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller, Reuters)
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Pope Francis greets a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization's section for new evangelization during a meeting for their plenary assembly at the Vatican March 15, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Family, community, are key to overcoming secularism, pope says
Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda of Gdansk, Poland, speaks during a news conference in Warsaw after being elected the new president of the Polish bishops' conference March 14, 2024. (OSV News photo/courtesy Polish bishops' conference)
New president of Poland's bishops' conference takes up tasks in rough waters for Polish church
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A crucifix is pictured in a file photo as Coptic Christians pray in Cairo. In the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of South Africa, three Egyptian Coptic monks were brutally murdered March 12, 2024, in their monastery in Cullinan, a small town about 18 miles east of the capital, Pretoria. (OSV News photo/stringer via Reuters)
Three Coptic Orthodox monks murdered in their monastery in South Africa
A statue of St. Joseph and the Christ Child is pictured at Jesus the Divine Word Church in Huntington, Md., April 1, 2022. Ahead of the March 19 feast of St. Joseph, the U.S. bishops invited the faithful to join in a March 10-18 novena to the foster father of Jesus to pray for couples pursuing adoption. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
People touched by adoption look to St. Joseph in national novena
The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Joe Donnelly, speaks during an interview with Carol Glatz, senior correspondent for Catholic News Service, at his residence in Rome March 7, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Road to Rome: U.S.-Vatican diplomatic ties still vital after 40 years
Visitors are pictured in a file photo looking at Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" on a refectory wall at Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Milan. (OSV News photo/Stefano Rellandini, Reuters)
'This is my body': The Last Supper in art
Oscar statues sit before being placed out for display as preparations continue for the 96th Academy Awards Awards in Los Angeles March 6, 2024. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
Looking at the Oscar nominees for best picture through the lens of human dignity
A group poses for a picture in the Vatican Gardens March 6, 2024, behind an apple tree planted to commemorate the Ulma family 80 years after their death on March 24, 1944, in Markowa, Poland, at the hands of German occupiers who killed the entire family for giving shelter to Jews in their house. Near the center is Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican's secretary of state, with Wladyslaw Ortyl, marshall of Poland's Podkarpacie region, at left, and Grazyna Ignaczak -Bandych, chief of Cabinet to the president of P
Apple tree grown from tree in Blessed Józef Ulma's is planted at Vatican
Pope Francis hears a woman's confession during a Lenten penance service March 8, 2024, at the parish of St. Pius V in Rome. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Confession is more about God's forgiveness than our sins, pope says
Father Augustus Tolton is pictured in an undated photo. Born into slavery in Missouri, he was ordained a priest April 24, 1886, in Rome and said his first Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. He is the first recognized African American priest ordained for the U.S. Catholic Church and is a candidate for sainthood. In 2019, Pope Francis declared he had lived a "virtuous and heroic life," giving him the title "Venerable." (OSV News photo/courtesy of Archdiocese of Chicago Archives and Records Center)
Tolton scouting patch honors Black priest and model of Eucharistic devotion
Msgr. Patrick Sheedy, pastor of Blessed Trinity Parish in Ocala, Fla., leads the Blessed Trinity School assembly in the lighting of the parish Christmas tree in December 2021. Father Pat, as he is best known, shepherds a stewardship-minded parish, which parishioners committed to in 1991. That led to the school being tuition-free three years later, and today Blessed Trinity has more than 100 stewardship opportunities in the parish and out into the community. (OSV News photo/courtesy Msgr. Patrick Sheed)
How a shy Irish farm boy turned Florida pastor led his parish to change countless lives in Uganda
Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck in Gaza City Feb.19, 2024, near an Israeli checkpoint. Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (OSV News photo/Kosay Al Nemer, Reuters)
Church leaders condemn 'wanton attack' at aid site; Israelis demand hostage release
Pope Francis gives his blessing after praying the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 3, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Relationship with God should be intimate, not transactional, pope says
A monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament is displayed on the altar during a Holy Hour at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City July 13, 2023. The liturgy was hosted by the Sisters of Life during the ongoing National Eucharistic Revival. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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Children are pictured in a file photo carrying the gifts during their first Communion. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
10 ways to prepare for first Communion day
The gifts of men and women are "fruitful" together, and to erase the difference between men and women "is to erase humanity," Pope Francis said.
Eliminating differences with gender ideology is terrible danger, pope says
Visitors look at a display of 200 relics at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Oratory in Montclair, N.J., Feb. 24, 2024. Nearly 3,500 faithful from as far away as Maine and Maryland waited over two hours to view the relics of Jesus, the Holy Family, various saints, martyrs and blesseds on exhibit. (OSV News photo/Sean Quinn, courtesy Archdiocese of Newark)
Exhibit of 200 relics at New Jersey oratory is a special gift during Lent for many faithful
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