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Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile as he rides around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Sept. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Add your prayers to this spiritual bouquet for Pope Leo XIV's 70th 
Polish Army members inspect a damaged house in the municipality of Wyryki, Poland, Sept. 10, 2025, after a drone or similar object struck a residential building according to local authorities, following violations of Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine. (OSV News photo/Kacper Pempel, Reuters)
Polish prelate calls for peace after 'reckless' Russian drone attack violates country's airspace
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile under the rain in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Sept. 10, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Crying out to God can be sign of hope, not crisis of faith, pope says
A hunter's moon rises behind a statue of St. Francis of Assisi on the grounds of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion in Champion, Wis., Oct 8, 2022 (OSV News photo/Sam Lucero, CNS)
St. Francis' 'Canticle of the Creatures' at 800 endures as vision of redeemed creation
Volunteers from the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg, Florida, assemble hygiene bags for the homeless Aug. 24, 2025. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Diocese of St. Petersburg)
Faithful's response to Jubilee Year challenge leaves Florida bishop 'full of gratitude'
Valeria Vargas Valverde, left, reading the universal prayer, and Antonia Salzano, St. Carlo Acutis' mother, are seen Sept. 7, 2025, at the canonization Mass of St. Carlo and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati in a combination photo. Valverde was healed from severe head trauma through the intercession of now-St. Carlo, after her mother prayed at the tomb of the young teen. Her recovery, which her doctors called medically inexplicable, was the second miracle needed for Acutis’ canonization. (OSV News photo/Vatican New
At canonization Mass, two mothers stand out as giants of confidence in God
Ellie Mertens, left, youth minister at Annunciation church in Minneapolis, hugs Ella Bradburn (red shirt) and Isabella Manley, who are members of her youth group, during a prayer service at Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield Aug. 27 to support those affected by a shooting at the church that morning. Mertens was inside Annunciation church at the all-school Mass when the shooting occurred. Bradburn and Manley are students at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spi
School shooting survivor embraces mission to help bring Jesus, healing to Annunciation youth
Fiorella Sacco and her husband, Massimo Mennelli, pose with handmade dolls representing Blessed Carlo Acutis during a pilgrimage in Assisi, Italy, Aug. 21, 2025. Sacco, who is a catechist with her husband, created the dolls with other volunteers at their parish of St. Joseph the Artisan in San Severo, Foggia, Italy. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Buried in Assisi, new saint is 'true disciple' of St. Francis, rector says
This is a screenshot from the GoFundMe page of 12-year-old Sophia Forchas, left in critical condition with head injuries when bullets tore through Annunciation Church in Minneapolis Aug. 27, 2025. Blessing her forehead and both hands with holy water from Lourdes, France, as she lay unconscious in a hospital bed in Minneapolis, Auxiliary Bishop Michael J. Izen of St. Paul and Minneapolis, prayed for her. (OSV News photo/Sophia Forchas, GoFundMe)
Bishop blesses hospitalized 12-year-old Annunciation shooting victim still in critical condition
Pope Leo XIV meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Sept. 4, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope meets Israeli president, discusses 'tragic' situation in Gaza 
Mary Perez embraces her son, Felix, a first-grade student at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, during an interfaith prayer service at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis Aug. 28, 2025. The previous day, a shooter opened fire through the windows of the church next to the school during an all-school Mass, killing two children and wounding 21 other victims. (OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters)
Helping kids and teens cope with the threat of school violence
Late evening sun illuminates rock formations at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colo., July 23, 2020. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Think you know the 'nones'? Pew study reveals nonreligious adults' nuanced beliefs
Gena Heraty, a longtime Irish missionary in Haiti pictured with a child in a 2012 photo, has been freed after nearly a month of captivity, the news agency Agenzia Fides confirmed Sept. 1, 2025. Heraty was among several people -- including a 3-year-old child -- taken in the early hours of Aug. 3 after gunmen breached the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. (OSV News photo/courtesy NPH International)
Irish missionary freed after monthlong kidnapping in Haiti amid worsening gang violence
Pope Leo XIV blesses his Augustinian confreres and their meal as he joins them for dinner Sept. 1, 2025, in a hall of the Italian attorney general's office next to the Basilica of St. Augustine in Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope to his Augustinian confreres: Listen, be humble, promote unity
Father Dennis Zehren, pastor of Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, becomes emotional as he speaks to the media alongside Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda Aug. 30, 2025, about the recent shooting at the church. The shooter opened fire through the windows of the school's church and struck children attending Mass Aug. 27 during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 21 others. (OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters)
Annunciation pastor calls first parish Mass after church shooting a 'humble beginning'
After climbing the podcast charts with "Rosary in a Year," Father Mark-Mary Ames of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal recently released "Eight Promises of God: Discovering Hope Through the Beatitudes," a book published by Ascension that he hopes will encourage people to see "the beauty and the gift that the Lord offers us in the beatitudes." Father Ames is pictured in an undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy Ascension)
Friar behind 'Rosary in a Year' explores Jesus Christ's 'blueprint' in the beatitudes
Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda speaks during an interfaith prayer service for the Annunciation Catholic community, following a shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church on Wednesday, at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Minn., August 28, 2025. (OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters)
Archbishop Hebda is praying for a 'healing of memories' following Annunciation shooting
Doctors with arms crossed
Catholic doctor describes her journey to practicing faith and medicine in harmony
Pat DeSilvey, a Catholic from Biloxi, Miss., tries to salvage items from his destroyed home Sept. 9, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Aug. 29, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of the deadly storm, which made landfall in the Gulf Coast region. The powerful storm claimed 1,400 lives, and caused widespread devastation, particularly in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Hurricane Katrina 20th anniversary a call to racial equity, justice, say bishops
Bishop Paul Tighe, a top official at the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education, poses while speaking to OSV News following his address, "Theology and Mission in an Age of Artificial Intelligence" to the Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology at Trinity College Dublin Aug. 23, 2025. (OSV News photo/Sarah Mac Donald)
Vatican official warns of AI’s hidden costs to environment, work and society
Pope Leo XIV gives his blessing to visitors and pilgrims at the conclusion of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Hope is knowing that God is near and that love will win, pope says
A girl holds a candle during a vigil at Lynnhurst Park in Minneapolis Aug. 27, 2025, following a shooting earlier in the day at Annunciation Church. A shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of a the school's church and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two children and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called "absolutely incomprehensible." (OSV News photo/Tim Evans, Reuters)
Nation reels as Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis leaves 2 dead, 17 injured
A migrant is detained by federal immigration officers at the U.S. immigration court in the Manhattan borough of New York City July 25, 2025. (OSV News photo/David 'Dee' Delgado, Reuters)
ICE detentions in immigration courts prompt alarm from Catholic advocates
A young Sudanese cholera patient lies on a bed at a United Nations-run makeshift clinic in the town of Tawila in north Darfur, Sudan, Aug. 5, 2025. (OSV News photo/Mohammed Jamal, Reuters)
Amid conflict, cholera outbreak accelerates hunger and starvation in Sudan
Pope Leo XIV greets participants in the International Catholic Legislators Network during a meeting in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Aug. 23, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Catholic legislators must help build 'city of God,' pope says
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