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The tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis is seen in the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi, Italy, April 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)
In historic Assisi, pilgrims seek modern witness of holiness
Pope Francis, who is continuing to recover from pneumonia and a long hospitalization, blesses a baby as he makes a surprise visit to St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 10, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a handout video. (OSV News photo/Luiz Gil, Handout via Reuters)
Pope's visit to basilica is sign of improved health, press office says
Actress Patricia Heaton is pictured in an undated photo. In a recent episode of Our Sunday Visitor magazine partner podcast "Like a Mother with Katie McGrady," host Katie McGrady sat down with the Emmy-Award winning actress, renowned for her iconic roles in "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle."(OSV News photo/handout, Kate Romero)
How actor Patricia Heaton navigates faith, family and Hollywood success
A man is pictured in a file photo running up the stairs of St. Mary's Church before Mass in Tohatchi, N.M. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
10 reasons to come back to the Catholic Church
Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is seen in this 2011 file photo. The disgraced former cardinal, removed from the clerical state in 2019 after revelations of credible allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct with adults, died April 3, 2025, in Missouri. He was 94. (OSV News photo/Morteza Nikoubazl, Reuters)
Disgraced former cardinal McCarrick dies at 94
Volunteers instruct tourists and pilgrims on emergency resuscitation in Rome's Piazza del Risorgimento outside the Vatican during the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers April 5, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Tourists, pilgrims, religious learn CPR during Jubilee of the Sick
Pope Francis greets the faithful in St. Peter's Square at the end of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers at the Vatican April 6, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Ailing pope surprises pilgrims during Jubilee of the sick
Women wearing traditional dress present the offertory gifts to Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, president of the Slovak bishops' conference, during a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican with about 4,300 Holy Year pilgrims from Slovakia April 4, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Jubilee renewal of faith builds confidence in God's presence, pope says
Franciscan Father Tomaz Majcen, the only Catholic parish priest serving in Greenland, is seen with several of his parishioners at Christ the King Church in Nuuk, Greenland. (OSV News photo/Father Tomaz Majcen)
Greenland's only Catholic priest calls his 'rewarding, demanding' mission a 'dream job'
Jonathan Roumie, center, plays Christ in "The Chosen: Last Supper - Part 1," a theatrical release of the first two episodes of the TV series' fifth season. The OSV News classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. Not rated by the Motion Picture Association. (OSV News photo/Fathom)
'The Chosen' Season Five sets the table for Holy Week
New York City Councilman Yusef Salaam holds a copy of the New York Daily News at the Notre Dame Law School March 24, 2025, opening day of the school's inaugural Death Penalty Abolition Week. Salaam was one of five teenagers eventually proven to have been wrongly convicted in the 1989 assault of a jogger in Central Park in a case that came to be known as the "Central Park Five" case. The Daily News headline story Sallam showed was on a juror in the trial acknowledging the mistake. (OSV News photo/Matt Cashor
Notre Dame Law School gathering makes case for abolishing death penalty
Promotional material, released April 1, 2025, highlights Pope Francis' video message and prayer intention for April: "For the use of new technologies." (CNS photo/courtesy of Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network)
Pope prays people stare less at screens, connect more face-to-face
Father Andrew Summerson, a professor at the Sheptytsky Institute in Toronto and pastor of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church in Whiting, Indiana, speaks at a book presentation at Rome's Pontifical Oriental Institute March 31, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Eastern Catholics help church be fully 'catholic,' speakers say
A group of pilgrims walk through St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on their way to the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica April 2, 2025. Pope Francis is convalescing and not able to meet the pilgrims. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Lord always goes in search of the lost, pope says
Polish Father Dariusz Kowalczyk, president of the "Dzielo Nowego Tysiaclecia" ("The Work of a New Millenium") foundation, is seen in an undated photopgraph. The foundation was established in the Jubilee Year 2000 as a fruit of St. John Paul II's 1999 pilgrimage to Poland, and today, 20 years after the pontiff's death on April 2, 2005, it is considered the "best living monument" to him, granting scholarships to talented youth, who are everything from musicians to doctors, and inventors to sportsmen. (OSV New
Polish talent foundation 'best living monument' to St. John Paul II 20 years after his death
The uncovered facade of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary is pictured at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in southwestern France in April 2023. The facade showcases the artwork of Father Marko Rupnik, a priest and former Jesuit, who is currently under investigation after accusations of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse by multiple adult women. Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes said March 31, 2025, that the sanctuary will cover the mosaics on the door of the basilica. (OSV News ph
Lourdes bishop covering Father Rupnik's mosaics on sanctuary's basilica doors
Visitors gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 30, 2025. Pope Francis did not pray the Angelus in the square because he is following doctors' orders to rest. The Vatican released a written message from the pope to accompany the Angelus. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
God's mercy is for everyone; everyone needs healing, pope writes
A reliquary containing what tradition holds is Jesus' crown of thorns is displayed during a ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris March 21, 2014. The crown, the most precious of the relics in Notre Dame's treasury, was saved from the flames of the April 15, 2019, fire. (OSV News photo/Philippe Wojazer, Reuters)
Lenten lectures are back at Notre Dame, marking a 'grand retour' of a Parisian classic
Pope John Paul II, who later became St. John Paul II, blesses a baby during an annual baptism liturgy in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Jan. 13, 2002. (OSV News photo from Catholic Press Photo)
30 years later: St. John Paul II's enduring challenge to culture in 'Evangelium Vitae'
A migrant farmworker cleans the fields in the Salinas Valley near Salinas, Calif., March 30, 2020. National Farmworkers Awareness Week is celebrate during the week of March 25-31, 2025. (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)
Special week puts focus on how food gets to Americans' tables - through farmworkers' labor
Flannery O'Connor is seen in this 1962 photo. From March 21-23, 2025, a museum in Savannah, Ga., dedicated to her literary genius and fascinating personality celebrated the centennial of her birth with socials, specialty tours, author talks and a live band, culminating in an annual birthday party event that will include vendors, games and an O'Connor look-alike contest. (OSV News photo/AP Photo, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Joe McTyre via PBS)
Flannery O'Connor's 100th birthday parties celebrate author's quirks, talents - and love of birds
Jeremiah Trotter Jr., who graduated in 2020 from St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia, is pictured during a game in his senior year. Trotter, now a linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles, newly crowned Super Bowl champions, credits his four years at a Jesuit institution for helping him mature spiritually and as an athlete. (OSV News photo/Philadelphiasportsdigest.com)
Eagles' Jeremiah Trotter Jr. calls Catholic school a forge of faith, champion spirit
Massimiliano Strappetti, the nurse who is Pope Francis' primary medical caregiver at the Vatican, adjusts a microphone for the pope as he greets a crowd of well-wishers at Rome's Gemelli hospital before returning to the Vatican March 23, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope knew he 'might not make it,' physician says
Gambling dice are seen in front of Sports Illustrated and 888 Holdings logos in this illustration taken June 24, 2021. (OSV News illustration/Dado Ruvic, Reuters)
Gambling on sports is now everywhere, but should Catholics support it?
An image of "The Deposition of Christ," recently attributed to Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, is seen in this photo released by the Vatican March 17, 2025. The previously lost painting will be on display in the Vatican Museums. (CNS photo/courtesy Governorate of Vatican City State)
Vatican unveils 'lost' Renaissance painting of the deposition of Christ
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