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Pope Francis greets a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization's section for new evangelization during a meeting for their plenary assembly at the Vatican March 15, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Family, community, are key to overcoming secularism, pope says
Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda of Gdansk, Poland, speaks during a news conference in Warsaw after being elected the new president of the Polish bishops' conference March 14, 2024. (OSV News photo/courtesy Polish bishops' conference)
New president of Poland's bishops' conference takes up tasks in rough waters for Polish church
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A crucifix is pictured in a file photo as Coptic Christians pray in Cairo. In the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of South Africa, three Egyptian Coptic monks were brutally murdered March 12, 2024, in their monastery in Cullinan, a small town about 18 miles east of the capital, Pretoria. (OSV News photo/stringer via Reuters)
Three Coptic Orthodox monks murdered in their monastery in South Africa
A statue of St. Joseph and the Christ Child is pictured at Jesus the Divine Word Church in Huntington, Md., April 1, 2022. Ahead of the March 19 feast of St. Joseph, the U.S. bishops invited the faithful to join in a March 10-18 novena to the foster father of Jesus to pray for couples pursuing adoption. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
People touched by adoption look to St. Joseph in national novena
The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Joe Donnelly, speaks during an interview with Carol Glatz, senior correspondent for Catholic News Service, at his residence in Rome March 7, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Road to Rome: U.S.-Vatican diplomatic ties still vital after 40 years
Visitors are pictured in a file photo looking at Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" on a refectory wall at Santa Maria delle Grazie Church in Milan. (OSV News photo/Stefano Rellandini, Reuters)
'This is my body': The Last Supper in art
Oscar statues sit before being placed out for display as preparations continue for the 96th Academy Awards Awards in Los Angeles March 6, 2024. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
Looking at the Oscar nominees for best picture through the lens of human dignity
A group poses for a picture in the Vatican Gardens March 6, 2024, behind an apple tree planted to commemorate the Ulma family 80 years after their death on March 24, 1944, in Markowa, Poland, at the hands of German occupiers who killed the entire family for giving shelter to Jews in their house. Near the center is Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican's secretary of state, with Wladyslaw Ortyl, marshall of Poland's Podkarpacie region, at left, and Grazyna Ignaczak -Bandych, chief of Cabinet to the president of P
Apple tree grown from tree in Blessed Józef Ulma's is planted at Vatican
Pope Francis hears a woman's confession during a Lenten penance service March 8, 2024, at the parish of St. Pius V in Rome. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Confession is more about God's forgiveness than our sins, pope says
Father Augustus Tolton is pictured in an undated photo. Born into slavery in Missouri, he was ordained a priest April 24, 1886, in Rome and said his first Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. He is the first recognized African American priest ordained for the U.S. Catholic Church and is a candidate for sainthood. In 2019, Pope Francis declared he had lived a "virtuous and heroic life," giving him the title "Venerable." (OSV News photo/courtesy of Archdiocese of Chicago Archives and Records Center)
Tolton scouting patch honors Black priest and model of Eucharistic devotion
Msgr. Patrick Sheedy, pastor of Blessed Trinity Parish in Ocala, Fla., leads the Blessed Trinity School assembly in the lighting of the parish Christmas tree in December 2021. Father Pat, as he is best known, shepherds a stewardship-minded parish, which parishioners committed to in 1991. That led to the school being tuition-free three years later, and today Blessed Trinity has more than 100 stewardship opportunities in the parish and out into the community. (OSV News photo/courtesy Msgr. Patrick Sheed)
How a shy Irish farm boy turned Florida pastor led his parish to change countless lives in Uganda
Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck in Gaza City Feb.19, 2024, near an Israeli checkpoint. Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (OSV News photo/Kosay Al Nemer, Reuters)
Church leaders condemn 'wanton attack' at aid site; Israelis demand hostage release
Pope Francis gives his blessing after praying the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 3, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Relationship with God should be intimate, not transactional, pope says
A monstrance containing the Blessed Sacrament is displayed on the altar during a Holy Hour at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City July 13, 2023. The liturgy was hosted by the Sisters of Life during the ongoing National Eucharistic Revival. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
8 things to do during Eucharistic adoration
Visitors look at a display of 200 relics at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Oratory in Montclair, N.J., Feb. 24, 2024. Nearly 3,500 faithful from as far away as Maine and Maryland waited over two hours to view the relics of Jesus, the Holy Family, various saints, martyrs and blesseds on exhibit. (OSV News photo/Sean Quinn, courtesy Archdiocese of Newark)
Exhibit of 200 relics at New Jersey oratory is a special gift during Lent for many faithful
Children are pictured in a file photo carrying the gifts during their first Communion. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
10 ways to prepare for first Communion day
The gifts of men and women are "fruitful" together, and to erase the difference between men and women "is to erase humanity," Pope Francis said.
Eliminating differences with gender ideology is terrible danger, pope says
Pope Francis meets with the bishops of Italy's Emilia Romagna region as they made their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican Feb. 29, 2024. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, president of the Italian bishops' conference, is seen listening as Pope Francis addresses the group. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope has full day of appointments after going to hospital for tests
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., and Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, are pictured in a combination photo. Cardinal Grech gave a talk Feb. 26, 2024, titled "The Role of the Synodal Bishop" at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, with Bishop Rhoades offering a response. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller/CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Vatican synod chief, bishop share insights into 'synodal bishops' at Notre Dame talk
Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, presents a Lenten meditation for members of the Roman Curia and Vatican employees in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Feb. 26, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Woe to those who end up in media 'meat grinder,' papal preacher says
American sociologist Tricia Bruce, president-elect of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is among six consultors named to the General Secretariat of the Synod Feb. 17, 2024. Of the secretariat's 16 total consultors, 12 are priests, one is a religious sister and three, including Bruce, are laywomen. Most are theologians. (OSV News photo/Saray Taylor-Roman, courtesy Tricia Bruce)
US sociologist who has studied parishes, Catholic movements, women's ministry looks forward to synod role
This is an updated map showing the four routes of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to the National Eucharistic Congress in 2024. Pilgrims traveling in "Eucharistic caravans" on all four routes will begin their journeys with Pentecost weekend celebrations May 17-18, 2024, leaving May 19. They will all converge on Indianapolis July 16, 2024, the day before the five-day Congress opens. (OSV News illustration/courtesy National Eucharistic Congress) (OSV News photo/courtesy National Eucharistic Congress)
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to include shrines, secular landmarks, diocesan events
A screengrab of a new Vatican website dedicated to connecting young people to Rome's papal basilicas is seen on the day of its launch Feb. 22, 2024. (CNS photo/Courtesy Holy See Press Office)
Vatican aims to draw young 'digital pilgrims' to Rome's papal basilicas
Actors Mark Wahlberg, left, and Jonathan Roumie, right, received ashes from Father Mark-Mary Ames, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, Feb. 14, 2024. (OSV News photo/courtesy Prevish Marketing)
Friar who said Ash Wednesday Mass for Roumie, Wahlberg shares how to meet God in Lent's 'desert'
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