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Mónica Santamarina, president general of WUCWO, poses for a photograph at WUCWO's Vatican offices June 1, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Don't stop at synod: Continue participating, says Catholic women's leader
Pope Francis speaks to the organizers of the Green & Blue Festival during an audience at the Vatican June 5, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope: Quick change of course necessary to beat climate change
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, papal envoy to Ukraine, gestures during a meeting in Kyiv with Ukraine's parliamentary commissioner for human rights, Dmytro Lubinets on June 5, 2023. Earlier in the day Cardinal Zuppi visited Kyiv's suburb of Bucha where hundreds of Ukrainian civilians died under Russian occupation in the spring of 2022. (OSV News/courtesy Ombudsman of Ukraine)
Papal envoy meets Zelenskyy in Kyiv amid destruction of critical dam that flooded south of country
A woman places flowers among crosses in a memorial set up outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, to honor the 19 students and two teachers killed there May 24, 2022, in a mass shooting. People gathered at the memorial May 24, 2023, one year after the shooting. Father Daniel Carson, the pastor of St. Peter's Parish on Capitol Hill in Washington seen at right in the background of this photo, joined people praying there. He was among 14 parish leaders from across the United States who participated in
Trip to Uvalde, Texas, leaves Capitol Hill pastor 'still processing' how deep community's trauma remains
Shia LaBeouf stars in the new drama "Padre Pio.” The OSV News classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association rating is R -- restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.(OSV News photo/Gravitas Ventures)
Shia LaBeouf: 'I fell in love with Christ' to portray Padre Pio on screen
A record number of 16,000 Catholics participate in the 41st annual traditional Catholic Pentecost pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres, organized May 27-29, 2023, under theme "Eucharist Salvation of Souls." Some 1,500 foreigners from 27 countries participated this year, including a group of Catholics from the U.S., Canada and Australia. (OSV News photo/courtesy Notre-Dame de Chrétienté)
Record number of Catholics walk in annual pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry, pictured in a file photo, was named chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism May 10, 2023. Ahead of the U.S. bishops' meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 14-16, Bishop Perry recently spoke with OSV News about his new role. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
New head of bishops' anti-racism committee praises investigations into racist histories, champions Black Catholic saint causes
The Cruz-Lay family from Australia poses for a photo in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican May 30, 2023, the day the Vatican announced the launch of the Family Global Compact. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Vatican launches compact for families with pope's support
People stand outside looking at a partially collapsed apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, May 28, 2023. The Quad-City Times reported that a ninth person was rescued the following day as some residents remain unaccounted for and officials made plans to demolish the remaining structure. (OSV News photo/John Blunk, courtesy The Catholic Messenger)
Victims of apartment building collapse in Davenport, Iowa, turn to nearby Catholic church
Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, a U.S. Army chaplain, is pictured celebrating Mass from the hood of a jeep Oct. 7, 1950, in South Korea. A candidate for sainthood, he died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp. A new 15-minute film from the Knights of Columbus titled "The Magazine and the Miracle: Finding Father Kapaun" traces the journey of Father Kapaun's mortal remains from a shallow grave in the prisoner-of-war camp where he died to their eventual return to his home Diocese of of Wichita, Kan.
Knights' film on chaplain's faith, heroism traces how his remains were returned home 70 years after his death
The exhumed body of Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, lies in repose in the church at the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Mo., May 21, 2023. (OSV News photo/Megan Marley)
Missouri Benedictine foundress, whose remains have been claimed to be incorrupt, recounted childhood visions of Jesus, Mary
Pope Francis sprinkles holy water at the beginning of his Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 28, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope on Pentecost: Synod is journey in the Spirit, not 'a parliament'
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy delivers remarks during a news conference at the White House in Washington July 15, 2021. Murthy released a 21-page advisory May 23, 2023, that called for "emergency action at all levels over youth social media usage for the sake of their mental health." (OSV News photo/Tom Brenner, Reuters)
Experts hail U.S. surgeon general's social media warning for youth mental health
Pope Francis waves at a participant during a meeting of Scholas Occurentes, an educational initiative, held at the Augustinianum Institute for Patristic Studies in Rome May 25, 2023. Julian Vaqueiro, a Telemundo journalist seen in front holding a microphone, was the event's master of ceremonies, and spoke with Pope Francis in an interview released May 25. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope Francis says situation at U.S.-Mexico border is 'serious problem'
Pope Francis uses incense as he venerates a statue of Our Lady of Fatima during the canonization Mass of Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the three Fatima seers, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, May 13, 2017. The Vatican announced the pope will return to Fatima Aug. 5 while in Portugal for World Youth Day. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Pope Francis adds Fátima visit to World Youth Day trip
Bishop John P. Dolan of Phoenix announces the creation of an Office of Mental Health Ministry Sept. 4, 2022, during the Diocese of Phoenix's first Mass of Remembrance for Suicide Victims at Ss. Simon & Jude Cathedral in Phoenix. (OSV News photo/Brett Meister, The Catholic Sun)
Bishop's heroic crusade against America's suicide epidemic is personal
French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and U.S. President Joe Biden, sign a guest book as they visit Peace Memorial Museum with other G7 leaders as part of the G7 leaders' summit in Hiroshima, Japan, May 19, 2023. (OSV News photo/Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan handout via Reuters)
Bishops from U.S., Japan call on G7 leaders to take "concrete steps" in eliminating nuclear weapons
Dr. Mary Soha poses April 24, 2023, next to a statue of Our Lady of La Leche in the chapel in her home adjacent to the Sacred Acre, site of the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche at Mission Nombre De Dios in St. Augustine, Fla.
Florida Catholic wife, mom, doctor involved in sainthood causes says Eucharist is central to all she does
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Nicole Duque tenderly holds the hand of her precious twins, Maria Theresa and Rachel Clare. (OSV News photo/handout via Detroit Catholic en Español)
A testimony of faith and love: conjoined twins born, baptized and at peace in God's arms
Pope Francis greets Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this file photo from April 17, 2019. In a new book, Pope Francis writes that people must learn from young people to care for the poor and for the environment. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Join the young in fighting for the poor and the planet, pope says
A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is pictured outside the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J., on her feast day, May 13, 2023, where veneration and a Mass were held. The statue is touring the Archdiocese of Newark through June 7 before being flown back home to Portugal. (OSV New photo/Joseph Jordan, courtesy Archdiocese of Newark)
Faithful join in Our Lady of Fatima procession through Newark on her feast day
Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands after their meeting at the Vatican May 13, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope, Ukrainian leader talk about humanitarian situation provoked by war
Rare books from the collection of the Marian Library of the University of Dayton Dayton in Ohio are seen in this undated image. (OSV News/Marian Library, University of Dayton)
Marian library seeks to show Mary through ancient eyes, new perspectives
Children are escorted to the Cayuga Center, which provides foster care and other services to immigrant children separated from their families, in New York City, July 10, 2018. In the U.S. there are nearly 400,000 children in the foster care system. (OSV news photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)
Foster care is a pro-life issue the church should fully support, parents say
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