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Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, addresses Pope Francis in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace during the bishops' "ad limina" visits to the Vatican in this Nov. 17, 2022, file photo .
Vatican officials meet German bishops to continue dialogue on Synodal Path
Women bring offertory gifts to the altar during the African National Eucharistic Congress Unity Mass July 22, 2023, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (OSV News photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Archdiocese of Washington)
Eucharist should inspire work for justice, Cardinal Gregory says at Unity Mass for African National Eucharistic Congress
Pope Francis greets 100-year-old Lucilla Macelli before celebrating Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, marking World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly July 23, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope to young people: To tackle life's ups and downs, look to the elderly
Kathleen Mishow of Gitchitwaa Kateri in Minneapolis holds a shawl with a picture of her daughter, Kateri Marie Mishow, sewn on the back during the first day of the Tekakwitha Conference July 20, 2023, in Bloomington, Minn. Kateri has been missing since 2007. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Tekakwitha Conference opens with calls to protect Indigenous women and girls from violence
Pope Francis poses for a photo with children in the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall July 18, 2023. About 250 children of Vatican employees are attending a summer program July 3-Aug. 4. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope visits summer camp for kids of Vatican employees
Vitya, a retired music teacher seen in this photo from June 29, 2023, became an unlikely catechist after Russian troops occupied his village near Borodyanka, Ukraine, for several weeks. He sheltered a woman raped by a Russian soldier and taught her and husband prayers; he also tried to "plant a seed" of humanity in the hearts of the Russian soldiers with whom he spoke. (OSV News/Gina Christian)
Invoking Mary's protection, Ukrainian villager shared faith under brutal occupation
Metropolitan Police Department personnel are seen Dec. 10, 2019, on the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington. The Catholic University of America has requested emergency meetings with Metropolitan Police, following off-campus attacks July 13 and July 17, 2023, days after a Kentucky teacher was killed in front of a university building. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Catholic University calls for emergency meetings with Washington police after nearby attacks
Visitors gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to pray the Angelus with Pope Francis July 16, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Sow seeds of faith, even when their fruits are not immediate, pope says
Migrants from Venezuela and Haiti get ready to board a boat in Necoclí, Colombia, April 28, 2023. (OSV News photo/Manuel Rueda, Global Sisters Report)
Religious congregations help US-bound migrants stranded near the Darién Gap
Pope Francis greets Archbishop Robert F. Prevost, a Chicago native, during a private audience at the Vatican Feb. 12, 2022. The pope will elevate Cardinal-designate Prevost, who is prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, to the College of Cardinals during a special consistory at the Vatican Sept. 30. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope names 21 cardinals, including U.S.-born Archbishop Prevost
Cardinal-designate Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, gives the annual Cardinal Darden Lecture at The Catholic University of America in Washington April 26, 2023. Pope Francis will elevate Cardinal-designate Pierre to the College of Cardinals during a consistory at the Vatican Sept. 30. (OSV News photo/Patrick Ryan, The Catholic University of America)
USCCB 'rejoices' at announcement of two cardinals-designate with 'deep ties' to U.S.
In this June 29, 2023 image, Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia inspect a memorial near Irpin, Ukraine made of cars shelled by Russian troops as Ukrainian civilians attempted to flee the area in 2022. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)
Ukraine 'inspires us all to stand in solidarity' for freedom, says Cardinal Cupich
Members of the Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ pose with statues of St. Michael the Archangel and Mary and a crucifix after arriving in El Salvador after leaving Nicaragua July 3, 2023. The community announced that day they left their post in Nicaragua, becoming the latest community of women religious to leave the country where the regime of President Daniel Ortega has cracked down on the Catholic Church. (OSV News photo/courtesy Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ via Facebook)
Another group of sisters leaves Nicaragua, where church faces increasing persecution
Father Benny Chittilappilly stands in his garden plot in Newport, Vt., May 25, 2023, before planting. For Father Chittilappilly, a Vocationist priest from southern India, gardening is about more than growing vegetables. (OSV News photo/Cori Fugere Urban, Vermont Catholic)
In gardening and parish life, 'we need God's grace to add to the effort,' says priest
People who fled their homes due to fighting between the Afar Special Forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front in Berhale, Ethiopia, wait for food near a makeshift compound in Afdera district, Feb. 23, 2022. (OSV News photo/Tiksa Negeri, Reuters)
Bishop: Suffering from war, hunger 'beyond human imagination' in Ethiopia's Tigray region
A child's bicycle, seen in a still image from video, lies on a lawn as a police office walks down a residential street in Baltimore July 2, 2023, after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July holiday weekend block party. Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore asked for prayers for the victims after the mass shooting left two dead and injured more than two dozen others, most of whom were teens. (OSV News photo/Reuters)
Baltimore archbishop asks for prayers for victims of mass shooting at a neighborhood block party
Pope Francis gives his homily during Mass for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2023. The pope wore red vestments to recall the martyrdom of the two saints. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope institutes commission to share the stories of new martyrs
Bishop William F. Medley of Owensboro, Ky., greets a small child in a receiving line of Burmese parishioners outside Holy Spirit Church in Bowling Green June 18, 2023. The Myanmar community was celebrating 14 years of being part of the parish. (OSV News photo/Elizabeth Wong Barnstead, The Western Kentucky Catholic)
Myanmar community celebrates 14 years in Kentucky parish with joy, 'spirit of love'
Pope Francis blesses an ambulance to donate to the Ukrainian city of Lviv, in this file photo taken at the Vatican March 26, 2022. Also pictured is Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, who drove the ambulance to Lviv. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Aid to Ukrainians tops charity funded by Peter's Pence in 2022
Pope Francis greets visitors in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to pray the Angelus June 29, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
'Real' people with strength from God better than superheroes, pope says
Scaffolding surrounds the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris July 28, 2022. Four years into the devastating fire, Notre Dame will get the spire back by the end of 2023. (OSV News photo/Geoffroy Van Der Hassel, pool via Reuters)
Meet the two American carpenters who are helping rebuild Notre Dame’s spire
Fighters of Wagner private mercenary group pull out of the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to base, in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. (OSV News photo/Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters)
Following Wagner Group's now-halted march on Moscow, bishop sees 'hope and danger' ahead for Ukraine
With the Washington Monument in the background, a crowd gathers at the Lincoln Monument in Washington June 24, 2023, for the National Celebrate Life Day rally to commemorate the first anniversary of U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the court's 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)
Pro-lifers call for action at 'National Celebrate Life Day' rally on Dobbs anniversary
A painting depicts Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore, the world's first sustained women's religious community for Black women. Pope Francis signed a decree June 22, 2023, recognizing the heroic virtues of Mother Lange and declaring her "venerable." (OSV News photo/courtesy Catholic Review)
Mother Lange, who is now 'venerable,' is nation's 'greatest model for evangelization,' says deacon
The RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912. The "unsinkable" ship hit an iceberg on April 15, and went down into the Atlantic Ocean within hours. (OSV News photo/public domain)
Recalling Father Thomas Byles, 'priest and martyr' during new Titanic crisis
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