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Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is debuting his latest work on Fox Nation: "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints." Scorsese is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/Fox Nation)
Martin Scorsese's new saints docuseries opens with Joan of Arc
Jesuit scholastic Joseph Nolla distributes Communion during Mass celebrated Oct. 15, 2024, at the Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico. (OSV News photo/David Agren)
Migrants hope, pray to enter US ahead of presidential inauguration
Pope Francis shakes hands with a member of the Italian National Youth Council during a meeting at the Vatican Nov. 16, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope urges young people to be engaged in life, civic society
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U.S. bishops: 'We stand in firm solidarity' with immigrants
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. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Archdiocese of Chicago Archives and Records Center)
Holy Black Catholics: A glance at six African American candidates for canonization
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with a Federal Emergency Management Agency member Oct. 3, 2024, as he visits storm-damaged areas in Keaton Beach, Fla., in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall Sept. 26 in the Big Bend region of Florida, near the city of Perry. Helene was followed by Hurricane Milton, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to form in the Gulf of Mexico, Milton made landfall as a major Category 3 hurricane near Siesta Key in Sarasota Oct. 9. (OSV News photo/Tom Brenner, Reuters) .
After hurricanes comes the hard part for displaced Floridians
Pope Francis waves to visitors in St. Peter's Square gathered to pray the Angelus at the Vatican Nov. 10, 2024. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope urges leaders to serve with humility, care for vulnerable
The three new bells, including the Paris 2024 Olympics bell installed last summer at the Stade de France stadium for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, are displayed during a blessing ceremony at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris Nov. 7. (OSV News photo/Sarah Meyssonnier, Reuters)
Notre Dame's choir is ready to sing again at home as cathedral's bells ring anew
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Michelle Duppong is seen in the documentary "Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story," produced by Anderson Art. (OSV News photo/courtesy FOCUS)
Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story
This combo photo shows Edward "Eddie" Maurer III of Aurora, Colo., left, a Navy veteran and retired engineer, now 81; Mauer as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, center; and young Eddie at his confirmation at St. Brigid Church in Detroit in 1955, right. (OSV News photo/courtesy Edward Maurer)
Veteran is grateful for God's guiding presence in a life of faith and service
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks during a news conference at a Nov. 14, 2023, session of the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore. Archbishop Broglio issued a USCCB statement Nov. 6, 2024, calling for prayer and unity following the results of the presidential election. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
US bishops' conference president calls for prayer, unity following the 2024 election
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Be on the lookout for hope; keep moving forward in faith, pope writes
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey S. Grob is pictured in an undated photo. On Nov. 4, 2024, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Listecki and appointed Bishop Grob as his successor. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Chicago)
Milwaukee archbishop retires; pope names Chicago auxiliary as his successor
Pope Francis gives his blessing to visitors in St. Peter's Square after praying the Angelus at the Vatican Nov. 3, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope: Love is the most important commandment
Students at the newly established School of Fine Arts and Traditional Trades of the Fabbrica di San Pietro use a hammer and chisel on a wall at the Vatican March 29, 2023. The six-month program is dedicated to encouraging young people to practice traditional crafts and skills that risk dying out. (CNS photo/courtesy of Fabbrica di San Pietro)
New students at Vatican's school for artisans include an American
Michelle Duppong is seen in the documentary "Radiating Joy: The Michelle Duppong Story," produced by Anderson Art. (OSV News photo/courtesy FOCUS)
Documentary profiles a possible future saint
A woman becomes emotional as she prays with a rosary during Eucharistic adoration following the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life Jan. 19, 2023, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Host of new 'The Rosary in a Year' podcast hopes people 'fall in love' with the prayer
This is a bronze coin titled "Dante before the Mountain of Purgatory [reverse], late 15th century." (OSV News photo/Samuel H. Kress Collection via National Gallery of Art)
What All Souls' Day is all about
Emmanuel Sister Gladys Ndege, left, helps cut the cake to celebrate the graduates of the 2023-24 cohort for the Hilton-Hekima Sisters Scholars Program at Hekima University College in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2024. The cohort of religious sisters had completed a one-year online certificate course in theology.(OSV News photo/courtesy of Religious Sisters Communicators' Foundation Uganda via Global Sisters Report)
Brigidine Sisters care care for Cuba's poor and sick as nation suffers shortages, wage decline
A painting by Pompeo Batoni of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from 1767 is displayed in an ornate frame inside the Jesuit Church of the Gesù in Rome, Oct. 22, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Only love will save humanity, pope says in encyclical on Sacred Heart
Bishop Robert J. McClory (right) presents newly ordained Father Robert Ross (left) gifts of a chalice and communion plate as seminarian Gianni Ditola (center) looks on during the Mass of Ordination to the Priesthood and Diaconate on June 3 at the Cathedral of the Holy Angels in Gary. Also at the liturgy, Steven Caraher, of Munster, and Zachary Glick, of Highland, were ordained as transitional deacons. (Anthony D. Alonzo photo)
Priestly Vocations: a bridge between heaven and earth
Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle, a member of the Synod of Bishops, speaks about the synod during an interview with Catholic News Service at the Pontifical North American College in Rome Oct. 24, 2024. (CNS photo)
Synod is lesson in moving at 'pace of the Holy Spirit,' archbishop says
Daniel Hernández Rabanales, seen in an Oct. 9, 2024, photo, has served migrants in Huixtla, Mexico, for 38 years. He says many migrants passing through southern Mexico are being kidnapped by criminal groups amid rising insecurity. (OSV News photo/David Agren)
Mexican lay couple help migrants amid rising dangers, difficulties
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