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The relics of the French nun to whom Christ revealed his Sacred Heart will be available for public veneration in the U.S. at a number of locations, as the nation -- newly consecrated to the Sacred Heart - marks its 250th anniversary.
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Prelates process after Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with the blessing and imposition of the pallium on new metropolitan archbishops on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 29, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
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Cardinals gather for a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 26, 2026, which opened an extraordinary consistory June 26-27. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
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Deacon Francis Cuffie is vested by Msgr. Joseph Malagreca during his ordination to the diaconate at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 25, 2019. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations has released its annual survey, "A Portrait of the Permanent Diaconate in 2025," conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Gregory A. Shemitz)
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Emergency services work at the site of a collapsed building in Caracas, Venezuela, June 24, 2026, following 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that rocked the country. More than 150 people have died and hundreds have been injured, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said June 25, adding that rescue teams were rushing to the hardest-hit areas to free people trapped under rubble. (OSV News photo/Gaby Oraa, Reuters)
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A pro-life activist and a supporter of legal abortion square off with megaphones in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 24, 2023, the first anniversary the court's 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. On the fourth anniversary of Dobbs June 24, 2026, the U.S. bishops' pro-life chair and pro-life leaders pointed to abortion pills as among key challenges for protecting the lives of unborn children. (OS
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Pope Leo XIV greets Norwegian writer Jon Fosse at the Capitolare Hall of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 24, 2026, as the pontiff meets with writers from around the world to mark the 100th anniversary of the Holy See's publishing house, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Fosse is a recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
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Pope Leo XIV takes part in Eucharistic adoration in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, the birthplace of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, whom the Vatican named patron saint of immigrants in 1950 for her ministry to immigrants in the United States, in Italy, June 20, 2026. (OSV News photo/Vincenzo Livieri, Reuters)
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Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the Augustinian order, sits in front of the relics of St. Augustine during a meeting with bishops, clergy and religious officials at the Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro, which houses the remains of St. Augustine, in Pavia, Italy, June 20, 2026. (OSV News/Yara Nardi, Reuters)
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People stand on their balconies in Havana during a blackout June 17, 2026. The Cuban government on June 18 announced far-reaching economic measures that could mark the most significant shift toward a market economy since the 1959 revolution. (OSV News photo/Norlys Perez, Reuters)
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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, venerates the statue of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child in Anjara, Jordan, before celebrating a Mass at the church there June 19, 2026. (OSV News photo/courtesy Noursat Jordan)
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Pope Leo XIV greets a child from the popemobile while riding around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience June 17, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Sts. Marie-Azélie Guérin and Louis Martin, the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, are depicted with their daughter in a stained-glass window at St. Thérèse of Lisieux Church in Montauk, N.Y. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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Pope Leo XIV smiles as he greets visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 17, 2026. A day earlier, outside the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo spoke with journalists about the Society of St. Pius X, or SSPX, the U.S.-Iran deal, Spain and future travels.(CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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Volunteers help load a pallet with boxes of packaged dried food June 13, 2026, during the Million Meal Event at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego. Over the course of two days, approximately 5,100 people, mostly from San Diego-area Catholic parishes, assembled 2 million packages of red lentils, rice, dried vegetables and vitamins to be distributed to needy communities within the San Diego Diocese as well as in neighboring Tijuana, Mexico. (OSV News photo/David Maung)
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Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, June 15, 2026. (OSV News photo/Reuters)
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Czech Republic's Stepan Chaloupek in action with South Korea's Park Jin-seob during the South Korea v Czech Republic Group A match of the FIFA World Cup 2026 at Estadio Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, June 11, 2026. (OSV News/Paul Childs, Reuters)
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Men lie prostrate during their ordination to the diaconate at the Catholic Pastoral Center in Nashville, Tenn., April 1, 2023. Bishop J. Mark Spalding of Nashville ordained 12 permanent deacons and one transitional deacon. (OSV News photo/Katie Peterson, Tennessee Register)
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Pope Leo XIV meets with French Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, left, and Colombian Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, commission secretary, right, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Sept. 12, 2025. In documents published June 13, 2026, Pope Leo XIV approved new statutes for the commission (PCPM) that seek to balance its integration with the Roman Curia while preserving its independence.(CNS photo/Vatican Medi
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Bishop Daniel J. Felton of Duluth, Minn., speaks about the sainthood cause for Msgr. Joseph Francis Buh during a June 10, 2026, session of the annual spring meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Orlando, Fla. Msgr. Buh was a missionary priest who served Northeastern Minnesota and his cause was first opened in 2023. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
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Fireworks explode during the inauguration of the Tower of Jesus Christ at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia during Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic journey in Barcelona, Spain, June 10, 2026. (OSV News photo/Nacho Doce, Reuters)
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Pope Leo XIV receives a present from an inmate at Barcelona’s Brians 1 prison, during his apostolic journey, in Barcelona, Spain, June 10, 2026. (OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
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