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The poster of the Meeting in Rimini, an annual summer gathering sponsored by Communion and Liberation, focuses on this year's theme of seeking what is essential in life. Pope Francis' message to participants urged them to recognize how much God loves them and to share that love with others. (CNS photo/Courtesy Meeting in Rimini)
Sharing God's love can make a difference in the world, cardinal says
Standing behind a banner that says in Italian, "The Immaculate will conquer," a quote from St. Maximilian Kolbe, a group of people wave and cheer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after joining Pope Francis for the recitation of the Angelus prayer Aug. 15, 2024, the feast of the Assumption of Mary. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
On Assumption, pope entrusts war-torn countries to Mary's care
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The south wransept Window inside the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Ga., depicts the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Above, Christ holds a crown for her coronation as Queen of Heaven. The feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is Aug. 15. (OSV News photo/Sam Lucero)
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St. Maximilian Kolbe, who took the place of a young father condemned to die at Auschwitz during World War II, is pictured in an undated painting. (OSV News photo/John Pole)
St. Maximilian Kolbe: 'Patron of our difficult century'
Lee Kiefer, a 2017 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, poses with her Olympic gold medals in individual (foil event) and team fencing Aug. 7, 2024, at Champions Park in Paris. (OSV News photo/Thibaud Moritz, pool via Reuters)
Alumni of Notre Dame, Loyola University Chicago shine at Paris Olympics
Pope Francis shares a moment with members of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary during a meeting at the Vatican Aug. 12, 2024, with members of four religious orders holding their general chapter meetings in Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Life's 'final exam' will be on care for poor, pope says
The Aug. 9 passenger plane crash in the city of Vinhedo, Brazil killed all 62 on board, greatly touching different Catholic communities in the country.
Catholic communities impacted by airplane crash in Brazil
This is an elevated view during the Paris Olympic closing ceremonies Aug. 11, 2024. U.S. Catholic athletes Nick Mead of the men's rowing team and Katie Ledecky of the women's swim team carried the U.S. flag in the ceremonies. (OSV News photo/Andy Chua, Reuters)
As Paris wraps Olympics with pride, bishop says church's Holy Games equally successful
A burned car is seen at the Ho'onanea condominium complex in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui Aug. 10, 2023. Lahaina's Maria Lanakila Catholic Church was spared from the flames that wiped out most of the surrounding community on Maui Aug. 8 and 9. (OSV News photo/Jorge Garcia, Reuters)
A year after historic Maui wildfires, community is resilient, optimistic even as needs persist
Bishop Paul Junmin Pei of Liaoning, China, distributes Communion during a Mass at St. Vincent DePaul Church -- concelebrated with Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and about 20 priests from China and the U.S. -- during a conference hosted by the US-China Catholic Church Association at Chicago's DePaul University Aug. 3, 2024. (OSV News photo/Simone Orendain)
Chinese Catholics gather in Chicago to discuss the church's challenges in China today
Pope Francis greets visitors at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 7, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
In times of trial know that nothing is impossible for God, pope says
Katie Ledecky of United States celebrates on the podium after wining her ninth Olympic gold medal during the women's 800-meter freestyle Aug. 3, 2024, at Paris La Defense Arena. Ledecky is a graduate of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md. (OSV News photo/Evgenia Novozhenina, Reuters)
American Olympic medalists in Paris known for leaning on faith
Pope Francis watches white rose petals falling from the ceiling of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major Aug. 5, 2024, for evening prayer on the feast of the basilica's dedication. According to tradition, on Aug. 5, 358, Mary had snow fall to mark the spot on Rome's Esquiline Hill where she wanted a church built in her honor. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Grace should cause awe, like a summer snowfall would, pope says
A group of young people pose for a photo at a temporary pilgrimage center in a Rome auditorium during the XIII International Pilgrimage of Altar Servers in Rome July 31, 2024. More than 50,000 altar servers from 20 countries went to Rome for the July 29-Aug. 2 pilgrimage. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Ready to serve: Altar servers reinforce ministry during Rome pilgrimage
A priest from St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Southfield, Mich., holds a relic of Blessed Solanus Casey during a procession following Mass at St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit July 30, 2024. (OSV News photo/Daniel Meloy, Detroit Catholic)
Detroit procession for Blessed Solanus Casey on feast day celebrates his humility, virtues
Franciscan Father Paolo Benanti, an adviser to Pope Francis on ethics and technology, talks with Microsoft President Brad Smith about ethics and artificial intelligence during an event on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., July 23, 2024. Father Benanti is a member of the United Nations’ advisory body on artificial intelligence. (OSV News photo/courtesy Seattle University)
Papal adviser, head of Microsoft talk ethics and AI in conversation on tech giant's campus
Pope Francis watches a brief performance during a visit to the "Luna Park di Ostia" amusement park in Ostia, Italy, July 31, 2024. He visited the park, which is an hour outside of Rome, to greet workers, their families and the two nuns providing pastoral care there. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope visits amusement park near Rome
Before a July 25, 2024, pep rally at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md., students pose beside a large cutout poster of three of the school’s graduates -- Katie Ledecky (class of 2015), Phoebe Bacon (class of 2020) and Erin Gemmell (class of 2023) -- who are members of the U.S. swimming team competing in the Summer Olympics in Paris. (OSV News photo/ Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)
Maryland Catholic high school roots for three alumnae swimming for US in Paris
An attendee of the National Eucharistic Congress kneels in prayer July 19, 2024, before relics of St. Manuel Gonzalez, known as the "bishop of the abandoned tabernacle," in the congress's relic chapel at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)
Despite long wait, chance to venerate saints' relics offers 'graces' for congress-goers
Fr. Patrick Briscoe welcomes pilgrims to the National Eucharistic Congress
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A reflection of the Eiffel Tower is seen in the Seine River in Paris July 25, 2024. (OSV News photo/Esa Alexander, Reuters)
Here are 9 Parisian saints to accompany Catholics during Olympics, reopening of Notre Dame
Pilgrims pray during a July 19, 2024, Encounter impact session at Lucas Oil Stadium during the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Congress calls on Catholics to 'Walk with One,' evangelize through 'spiritual companionship'
Olympian Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone is pictured competing in her opening heat in the 400-meter hurdles during the World Athletics Championships July 19-22, 2022, at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. The athlete, a 2017 graduate of Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, N.J., once again shattered her own world record in the Summer Olympic trials June 30, 2024, to secure her place on Team USA for the Paris Olympics. (OSV News photo/Wikipedia via Archdiocese of Newark) U
Alum of NJ Catholic high school heads to Olympics after shattering own hurdles world record
Actor Bob Newhart laughs after delivering story during a tribute to Newhart at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., March 2, 2001. (OSV News photo/Gary C., Reuters)
Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart
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