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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) speaks to the media after being presented with the Lamar Hunt Trophy after the AFC Championship game against the Buffalo Bills at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium Jan. 26. (OSV News photo/Eric Hartline-Imagn Images and Denny Medley-Imagn Images)
Kansas City bishop eyes 'three-peat' for charity in bishops' Super Bowl LIX wager
A bride and groom pose for a photo outside St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York City following their wedding in 2022. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Marriage: A sacrament of lasting love
A file photo shows some of the more than 100 couples renew their wedding vows on World Marriage Day during a 2014 Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. World Marriage Day is observed Feb. 9. (OSV News file photo/Victor Aleman, Via Nueva)
Polka dancing, Hershey's Kisses and novenas for World Marriage Day
Pope Francis sits alongside Queen Rania of Jordan, left, and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore during the world leaders’ summit on children’s rights at the Vatican Feb. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope will prepare papal document to help church promote children's rights
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Emergency personnel and divers work Jan. 30, 2025, in a search-and-rescue mission on the Potomac River in Washington after American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk Army helicopter late Jan. 29 while on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport for landing and crashed into the river. Sixty passengers and four crew members were aboard the jet, and three soldiers were on the helicopter. (OSV News photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
Pope sends condolences to families, US for midair collision near DC
Dancers wearing lion costumes perform during a midnight Lunar New Year celebration in the Manhattan borough of New York City’s Chinatown Jan. 28, 2025, marking the Year of the Snake. (OSV News photo/Adam Gray, Reuters)
Lunar New Year coinciding with Jubilee Year seen as time for 'change, renewal'
Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz, Poland, Archbishop Guido Filipazzi, who is apostolic nuncio to Poland, and Bishop Roman Pindel of Bielsko-Zywiec, Poland, recite a prayer in the name of Catholics during a Jan. 27, 2025, ceremony commemorating 80 years since the liberation of German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland. (OSV News/courtesy Diocese of Bielsko-Zywiec)
'God suffered a great deal in every single person' who was in Auschwitz, cardinal says
Chieko Noguchi, executive director of public affairs for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, greets Pope Francis during a meeting with the presidents of bishops' communications committees and the directors of communications for bishops' conferences during a meeting at the Vatican Jan. 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Catholic communication must engage with the world, pope says
A priest offering the sacrament of reconciliation listens to a young woman at SEEK25 in Salt Lake City Jan. 3, 2025. Each year the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, known as FOCUS, holds the annual SEEK conference to bring together thousands of its campus missionaries and college students from across the nation. For 2025, it was held Jan. 1-5 in Salt Lake City and Jan. 2-5 in Washington. (OSV News photo/courtesy FOCUS)
5 things to know about the sacrament of reconciliation
Craig and Laura Schlattmann from Tacoma, Washington, smile at each other as they pose for a photo in Rome Jan. 23, 2025. The Schlattmanns are volunteers assisting with Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Guiding souls: Jubilee volunteers lead pilgrims across Holy Door
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, who is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, delivers a homily to fellow bishops attending the opening Mass of the USCCB's fall plenary assembly Nov. 11, 2024, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. (OSV News photo file/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
USCCB president calls Trump orders on migration, death penalty 'deeply troubling'
Pope Francis speaks to Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran leaders in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 20, 2025, during their annual pilgrimage to Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
All Christians called to witness God's love, source of hope, pope says
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory receives offertory gifts from a young woman during a Mass Jan. 19, 2025, celebrated at Holy Family Church in Hillcrest Heights, Md., to commemorate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At right is Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr., one of the concelebrants at the Mass. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year, was Jan. 20. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
Rev. King's legacy involves 'uniting our nation as one community of hope,' cardinal says 
Released Israeli hostage Doron Steinbrecher embraces loved ones at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, Jan. 19, 2025, after being held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, in this handout image obtained by Reuters. (OSV News photo/Maayan Toaf/GPO/Handout via Reuters)
As ceasefire starts, first Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners return home
Supporters of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy head of the military council and head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, arrive a meeting in Aprag village, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Khartoum, Sudan, June 22, 2019. (OSV News photo/Umit Bektas, Reuters)
US declares genocide in Sudan as country undergoes 'unimaginable' suffering
The sun shines through a statue of Christ on a grave marker alongside an American flag at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Appleton, Wis., in this 2018 photo. A new annual report by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued Jan. 16, 2025, identified what it called five areas of critical concern, defined as both threats and opportunities, for religious liberty. (OSV News file photo/Bradley Birkholz)
US bishops report flags 5 top areas of 'critical concern' on religious liberty
Pope Francis poses for a photo with Argentine priests living in Rome during a meeting at the Vatican Jan. 16, 2025. Earlier in the day, the pope fell and hurt his right arm; while nothing was broken, he is wearing a sling as a "precautionary measure," the Vatican said. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Priesthood is a gift meant to be given for others, pope says
Days after a wildfire destroyed their apartment and all their earthly belongings, Raul and Claudia De La Rosa have only one thing to lean on in the face of adversity: their Catholic faith.
'God does things for a reason,' says pregnant mom of 4 who lost home in LA's Eaton Fire
An undated painting of religious Sister Clare Crockett is seen as the diocesan phase of her sainthood cause was officially opened in Madrid's Cathedral of Alcalá de Henares on Jan. 12, 2025. (OSV News photo/courtesy Facebook Sister Clare Crockett)
Sister Clare Crockett, who lived 'exceptional, holy life,' begins road to sainthood as cause opens
U.S. President Joe Biden talks with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican Oct. 29, 2021. Biden spoke with the pope from the White in Washington Jan. 11, 2025, and named him as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. Biden had been scheduled to have an audience with the pope during a Jan. 9-12 trip to Rome but the president canceled the trip amid the California wildfires. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Biden awards pope Presidential Medal of Freedom, nation's highest civilian honor
Pope Francis baptizes a baby during Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 12, 2025, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Best gift a child can receive is faith, pope says at baptisms
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, front right, and other U.S. bishops from Ohio and Michigan concelebrate Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 9, 2019. Bishop Thomas, chair of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, will be among the speakers at the 52nd annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 24, 2025. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
March for Life speakers to include DeSantis, Bishop Thomas 
Pope Francis greets Georgios F. Poulides, the ambassador of Cyprus to the Holy See and dean of the diplomatic corps, during the annual meeting with diplomats accredited to the Holy See in the Hall of Blessing in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope to diplomats: Sweep away 'clouds of war,' let 'winds of peace' blow
Flames rise from a structure as the Palisades Fire burns during a windstorm on the west side of Los Angeles Jan. 8, 2025. Firefighters battled early Jan. 9 to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes. (OSV News photo/Ringo Chiu, Reuters)
Catholics rally to aid LA wildfire victims
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