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A suicide prevention sign is pictured on a protective fence on the walkway of the George Washington Bridge in New York City Jan. 12, 2022. (OSV News photo/Mike Segar, Reuters)
Mental health crisis demands church's integrated response, says Virginia bishop
Flathead Lake near Rollins, Montana, is seen in this file photo from July 24, 2023. Pope Francis announced he will release a new document on the environment Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi. (CNS photo/Cindy Wooden)
Pope confirms 'second Laudato Si'' will be an apostolic exhortation
Late evening sun illuminates rock formations at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colo., July 23, 2020. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Laudato Si' Animators Program forms Catholic advocates for 'ecological conversion'
Pope Francis talks to visitors about Our Lady of Guadalupe and the importance of inculturating the faith during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 23, 2023. Msgr. Leonardo Sapienza, an official of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, looks on. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Guadalupe shows how faith is shared simply, with respect, pope says
A family mourns on Independence Day in Lviv, Ukraine, Aug. 24, 2023, as they visit the tomb of a relative, a Ukrainian serviceman who was killed in a fight against Russian troops amid Russia's attack on Ukraine. (OSV News photo/Roman Baluk, Reuters)
Ukraine's Independence Day 'like a July 4th,' says archbishop
Students in "Little Chefs" program prepare a pizza luncheon during the July 17-20, 2023, summer camp at Donovan Catholic High School in Toms River, N.J., in the Trenton Diocese. Each of the four half-day programs enabled the future chefs, students in grades four to eight, to build culinary skills as well as practice their writing and creativity. (OSV News photo/courtesy Donovan Catholic High School)
'Little Chefs' program teaches grade schoolers life skill in atmosphere of fun, faith
Deacon Michael East witnesses the exchange of wedding vows of Blake Davidson, right, a grandson of Deacon East, and Lacy Joslin Oct. 26, 2019, at St. Ambrose Church in Seymour, Ind. (OSV News photo/courtesy family)
New prep program, modeled after ‘catechumenate,' aims to strengthen marriages in faith 
New seminarians and staff from the Pontifical North American College, the U.S. seminary in Rome, wave and cheer as Pope Francis greets them after reciting the Angelus prayer with visitors in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Aug. 20, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
'Rigidity is bad, but firmness is good,' pope says at Angelus
Dorothy Day was "a great witness to faith, hope and charity in the 20th century," a woman who loved the Catholic Church despite the flaws of its members and who knew that serving God meant serving the poor and working for justice, Pope Francis wrote.
Pope: Dorothy Day's life shows evangelizing power of charity, witness, love
The ruins of business and homes are pictured in the ravaged town of Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui Aug.15, 2023. Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva is urging the faithful of the diocese to "come together and provide unwavering support" to those who have lost everything in the Maui wildfires that destroyed Lahaina and damaged other communities Aug. 8 and 9. (OSV News photo/Mike Blake, Reuters)
'Miraculous' survival of Maui Catholic church seen as sign of hope amid wildfire destruction
The Miracle Club
The Miracle Club
One of the new crowns imposed Aug. 15, 2023, on the image of Our Lady of Koden in eastern Poland is seen in this photo. The day, the feast of the Assumption, marked the 300th anniversary of the first crowning of the miraculous image. The people of the Podlaskie region, having experienced graces from Our Lady of Koden, wanted the image to be crowned with new jewels and they paid for them. (OSV News photo/courtesy Sanctuary of Our Lady of Koden)
Our Lady of Koden, a statue once stolen from pope, gets new crowns 300 years after first coronation
Pope Francis greets visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to pray the Angelus Aug. 15, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope entrusts prayers for peace to Mary, assumed into heaven
Wiktoria Ulma, the wife of Józef Ulma, poses for a picture with one of the couple's children. The Ulmas secretly gave shelter to eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland, hiding them from the murderous Nazi regime during the Second World War. The Nazis killed the family and the Jews they were sheltering early in the morning March 24, 1944, right before Easter. The Vatican declared the Ulma family martyrs Dec. 17, 2022, and they will be beatified Sept. 10, 2023. (OSV News photo/courtesy Poli
Village in Poland prepares for Ulma family's beatification, tells story of their heroism in face of Nazis
Shoppers at a supermarket in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, find shelves lacking items in this undated photo amid a regional food shortage. The shortage is the result of a blockade in the Lachin corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated enclave surrounded by Azerbaijan. (OSV News photo/courtesy Siranush Sargsyan, via ONE magazine)
Catholic agencies say blockade is creating humanitarian crisis in contested region of Caucasus
Pope Francis, seated in his wheelchair, blesses a young man seated in a wheelchair at the end of his weekly general audience Aug. 9, 2023, in the Vatican audience hall. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
WYD pilgrims showed the world faith can lead to peace, pope says
WYD 2023
Indiana youth reflect on 'life-changing' experience in Lisbon
Sisters of Life
Honored by Knights, Sisters of Life founding superior shares 'secret of loving' behind a culture of life
Bishop José Ornelas Carvalho of Leiria-Fátima, Portugal, left, welcomes Pope Francis to the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon for vespers with Portuguese bishops, priests, deacons, religious, seminarians and pastoral workers Aug. 2, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Awaken the 'weary' church by becoming 'restless,' pope says in Portugal
At Immaculate Conception Church in Clarksville, Tenn., Victoria Sanchez, 9, looks over an exhibition created and designed by Blessed Carlo Acutis that explains every Eucharistic miracle documented around the world. The 156-poster display is currently being shown on five different continents and has miracles listed across 20 countries and witnessed by multiple saints and beatified individuals. (OSV News photo/Katie Peterson, Tennessee Register)
Beatified teen's Eucharistic miracles display inspires devotion in Tennessee youths, adults
Flames rise next to a firefighting truck as a wildfire burns near the village of Vati, on the island of Rhodes, Greece, July 25, 2023. Heat waves all over the globe have seen Greece, Italy and Spain record all-time high temperatures with the heat index in several Middle Eastern countries reaching 152 degrees Fahrenheit, near the limit of human survival. (OSV News photo, Nicolas Economou, Reuters)
As record heat scorches the globe, climate advocates urge Catholics to take action
Sister Giovana of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (squatting) joins Sister Samaritan of Scourged Love (left) and Sister Maria Clara of the Crucified in giving food to a man near Lexington Market in Baltimore May 3, 2023. (OSV News Photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ bring love to troubled streets
Bishop Robert J. Brennan of Brooklyn, N.Y., blesses the congregation with holy water as he celebrates a send-off Mass at Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, N.Y., July 23, 2023, for the more than 300 pilgrims from his diocese who will attend World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 1-6. Bishop Brennan will be among the nearly 29,000 U.S. pilgrims and more than 60 U.S. bishops who will attend the worldwide gathering. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
US set to have fifth largest delegation at World Youth Day
Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor performs on stage during the Positivus music festival in Salacgriva, Latvia, July 18, 2009. The July 26, 2023, death of the acclaimed 56-year-old singer and songwriter has seen an outpouring of tributes from all walks of Irish life. (OSV News photo/Ints Kalnins, Reuters)
Sinéad O'Connor, iconic Irish singer and victim of child abuse, dies at 56
Pope Francis, alongside a young person who was going to attend World Youth Day and his grandmother, speaks to visitors gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before praying the Angelus July 23, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Open yourself to God, pope tells marginalized youth ahead of WYD
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