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A night view shows the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris March 30, 2024, with a new spire topped by the rooster and the cross, as restoration works continued following the devastating fire of 2019. (OSV News photo/Gonzalo Fuentes, Reuters)
As cross and tower bells return to Notre Dame, firefighters' chaplain recalls battle to save icon
Joshua, Jessica, Jonathan, Lillian and Lucas Dahlberg pray together during Eucharistic adoration at Epiphany in Coon Rapids, Minn., May 2, 2024. They pray once a week at the chapel. Joshua began a remarkable recovery from a debilitating illness hours after he received his first Communion May 13, 2023. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Hours after his first Communion boy begins remarkable recovery from debilitating illness
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Actor Jonathan Roumie gives the commencement address during the graduation ceremony at The Catholic University of America in Washington May 11, 2024. (OSV News photo/Denny Henry, Catholic University of America)
To find true success in life, serve God first, actor Jonathan Roumie tells graduates
Father Nicholas G. DuPre (center), associate pastor at St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Abbeville, Louisiana, leads parishioners in prayer as a teenager attempted to enter the church with a rifle during a first Communion Mass May 11, 2024. (OSV News photo/St. Mary Magdalen live stream screenshot)
Louisiana first Communion Mass disrupted by gunman
Pope Francis attends a meeting dedicated to children and future generations at a conference on human fraternity in the Synod Hall at the Vatican May 11, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Peace in politics, in the world starts in people's hearts, pope says
Father Roger Landry, chaplain at Columbia University, elevates the Eucharist during Mass at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in New York City Oct. 11, 2022. Father Landry may be the reason 24 young people and several priests are walking thousands of miles across the U.S. this summer during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Pilgrim priest: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage helps reveal the church's 'deepest core'
Blessed Natalia Tulasiewicz is pictured in 1939 with students of Middle School of Ursuline Sisters of Poznan in Krakow, Poland. Tulasiewicz was a Polish wartime teacher who never ceased to bring up young people in knowledge and faith, despite the threat of arrest by Nazis. Caught by Germans, she was sent to Ravensbrück death camp, where she died April 30, 1945, a last group of people sent to the gas chamber as the Allied Forces were about to liberate the camp. (OSV News photo/courtesy Tulasiewicz family)
Catholic wartime teacher never abandoned her call, even under threat of arrest
Workers remove the bricks closing up the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo from Nov. 12, 2015. The door had been sealed shut since the end of the Holy Year 2000. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Jubilee countdown: Preparations for 2025 Holy Year move into high gear
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Forrest Tucker poses next to a clay bust of Father Augustus Tolton, at his home in Danville, Ind., March 20, 2024. Father Tolton, a candidate for sainthood, is the first recognized priest of African descent in the United States. He was declared "venerable" by Pope Francis in 2019. (OSV News photo/John Shaughnessy, The Criterion)
Sculptor known for honoring car racing greats turns attention to Father Tolton
Then-Monsignor Robert McClory spends a moment at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France in October 2019. (Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Detroit)
Joy of ministry work grew into deeper love for Jesus
Children are pictured in a rendering of what Sacred Hearts School's new temporary site in Kaanapali, Hawaii, will look like after the original was destroyed in August 2023 when wildfires devastated the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui. Courtesy of MCYIA Interior Architecture & Design, the school's new site will include space to play outdoors as well as portable trailers for a variety of uses, from offices to bathrooms. (OSV News photo/courtesy MCYIA Interior Architecture & Design)
New temporary spot for Catholic school a 'sign of hope' amid ongoing recovery from Maui fires
U.S. President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Olympic champion swimmer Katie Ledecky, a Catholic, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington May 3, 2024. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters)
Catholic Olympic champion swimmer awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Pope Francis greets members and new recruits of the Pontifical Swiss Guard at the Vatican May 6, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope encourages Swiss Guard to foster friendships, avoid isolation
Jockey Keith Asmussen wins the first graded stakes race of his career aboard Lemon Muffin in the Honeybee at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 24, 2024. (OSV News photo/Coady Photography, courtesy Oaklawn Park)
Kentucky Derby jockey says Catholic faith crucial in dangerous sport
Sister Aleya Kattakayam, a member of the Sisters of Charity, greets Ayah Issa, 32, and her 18-month-old son Ahmad, outside Caritas Baby Hospital in Bethlehem, West Bank, April 27, 2024. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)
Caritas Baby Hospital in Bethlehem remains a ray of hope in war-torn Holy Land
Columbia University students and pro-Palestinian protesters march in front of Hamilton Hall in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., May 1, 2024. (OSV News photo/Roselle Chen, Reuters)
Amid protests, Columbia University Catholic chaplain urges prayer, charity
Pope Francis prays the rosary in the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal, Aug. 5, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Afraid of Marian apparitions? Take another look this May
Pope Francis meets with parish priests from around the world who were chosen by their bishops to share their reflections with the Synod of Bishops on synodality May 2, 2024, in the Synod Hall at the Vatican. To the left of the pope is Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, and to the right is Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, synod relator general (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope calls pastors to be 'missionaries of synodality'
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'Challengers' Review
A newly released image of St. Padre Pio is seen in this undated photo. The Vatican hosted a presentation of 10 new photos of the Capuchin saint April 29, 2024. (CNS photo/Courtesy Saint Pio Foundation)
New photos reveal many sides of Padre Pio
Neighbors embrace Penny Thomsen outside of her home in Des Moines, Iowa, April 27, 2024, following a tornado the previous day. A tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Neb., demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions, then slamming Des Moines. (OSV News Zach Boyden-Holmes, The Register/USA Today Network via Reuters)
Faithful respond to Midwest tornadoes, help storm victims 'carry their cross'
In this undated photo, Father Thomas Hagan, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales, celebrates Mass in Cité Soleil, Haiti, which is served by the nonprofit ministry he founded called Hands Together. Father Hagan told OSV News April 23, 2024, he was heading back to his longtime ministry in Haiti's besieged capital, after briefly being evacuated for medical treatment. (OSV News photo/Hands Together)
Amid ongoing chaotic violence, US priest returns to his mission in Haiti
Pope Francis greets representatives of congregations founded by St. Magdalene of Canossa and members of the Montfort Brothers of St. Gabriel during an audience at the Vatican April 29, 2024. The congregations were holding their general chapter meetings in Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Ignite the fire of faith in people's hearts, pope tells religious
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