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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
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
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
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
A printed copy of the "Instrumentum Laboris," or working document, for the world Synod of Bishops on synodality is seen in the Vatican press office June 20, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
U.S. bishops encourage Catholics to 'read, pray and discuss' Synod on Synodality working document
Pope Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31, 2022, is pictured praying with Mustafa Cagrici, the grand mufti of Istanbul, as he visits the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 30, 2006. A pectoral cross given by pope when he resigned in 2013 to the parish church of St. Oswald in Traunstein, Germany, was reported stolen by police June 20, 2023. (OSV News photo/Anatolian News Agency via Reuters)
Late pope's pectoral cross stolen from Catholic church in Traunstein, Germany
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
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston prepares to vote June 16, 2023, during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' spring plenary assembly in Orlando, Fla. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
U.S. bishops advance pastoral initiatives to strengthen church amid discussions on Eucharist, priesthood, synodality
Pope Francis blesses a four-foot-tall monstrance, a chalice and a paten as Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., looks on during an audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace June 19, 2023. The blessing took place during the pope's meeting with members of the organizing committees of the U.S. National Eucharistic Congress and Eucharistic Revival. (CNS screengrab/Vatican Media)
Adore Jesus' real presence in the Eucharist, pope tells U.S. Catholics
Pope Francis greets an elderly woman as he meets with people in Asuncion, Paraguay, in this July 12, 2015, file photo. The pope has chosen the theme, "In old age they will still bear fruit" (Psalm 92:15), for the second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly July 24. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Pope: Visit grandparents, elderly, bring joy to their hearts
Pope Francis meets Archbishop Georg Gänswein, personal secretary to the late Pope Benedict XVI, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican in this May 19, 2023, file photo. Pope Francis has directed Archbishop Gänswein to return to his home diocese of Freiburg in southwest Germany without an assignment by July 1. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope sends predecessor's longtime secretary home without assignment
Father Seamus Griesbach, center in vestments, leads hundreds of parishioners in a Eucharistic procession through Portland, Maine, on Corpus Christi Sunday, June 11, 2023. The priest is rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland and pastor of three parishes. The procession helped the Diocese of Portland and other U.S. dioceses launch the parish year of the U.S. bishops' National Eucharistic Revival. (OSV News photo/courtesy Diocese of Portland)
Eucharistic processions on Corpus Christi around U.S. promote devotion to Real Presence
In this undated photo, students at the Polytechnic University of Turin work on "Spei Satelles," a small CubeSat satellite they built, which was launched into space June 12, 2023. The satellite carries a "nano" version of Pope Francis' book, "Why Are You Afraid? Have You No Faith?" It is also built to send signals back to earth for ham radio operators to hear the pope's messages of hope and peace. The "Spei Satelles" project is promoted by the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. (CNS photo/courtesy of Vatic
Pope's message of hope launched into space to orbit Earth
A statue of St. John Paul II is seen outside of Rome's Gemelli hospital June 8, 2023, where Pope Francis is staying after undergoing surgery to treat a hernia June 7. Because of his frequent visits over his three-decade pontificate, the Polish pope affectionately called the hospital "the third Vatican" after his second "home" at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo outside of Rome. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)
Pope thanks well-wishers for prayers; Vatican says recovery going smoothly
Deacon Francis Cuffie is vested by Msgr. Joseph Malagreca during his ordination to the diaconate at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 25, 2019. The estimated number of permanent deacons in active ministry in U.S. was 13,695 in 2022, the lowest amount since 2011, according to results of new CARA survey. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Gregory A. Shemitz)
Survey: permanent deacon numbers in U.S. expected 'to remain stable' but continue slow decline
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