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Excitement about 2024’s National Eucharistic Congress is growing, says congress official

INDIANAPOLIS (OSV News) — Local and national organizers of the National Eucharistic Congress — which will take place in Indianapolis July 17-21, 2024 — have been meeting virtually for some...

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‘The whole day belongs to God’: A chat with Bishop George Lucas

Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, George Lucas was appointed Archbishop of Omaha by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, after serving as Bishop of Springfield...

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Papa Francisco: La caridad está motivada por el amor, no diseñada para ganar adeptos

Por Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service ULÁN BATOR, Mongolia (CNS) — El Papa Francisco concluyó su visita de cuatro días a Mongolia donde comenzaron...

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Catholic student center at Washington’s Howard University named for Sister Thea Bowman

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Father Robert Boxie III, the...

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Marriage formation leaders encouraged to ‘love like Christ,’ teach ‘the truth and beauty of family life’

By Maria del Pilar Guzman (OSV News) — This summer, participants of the Marriage Catechumenate Summit gathered at a retreat center near Houston to...

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Ancient Christian enclave faces ‘genocide by starvation,’ says Armenian Catholic bishop

(OSV News) — An Armenian Catholic bishop is calling for prayer and action as some 120,000 ethnic Armenians face what he and other experts...

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Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Józef, and their seven children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute) Wiktoria Ulma is pictured in an undated photo with three of her children and the children of relatives outside the Ulma home in Markowa, a village in southeastern Poland. Wikotria, her husband, Józef, and their seven children were executed March 24, 1944, by Nazis who discovered that the family had been sheltering eight Jews who had escaped internment by German occupying forces. Ulma girls Stasia and Basia are pictured in the middle near their mother, who is holding son Wlodzimierz. (CNS photo courtesy National Remembrance Institute)

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Vatican says Ulma child was born during mother’s execution

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With a beatification Mass for the Ulma family set for Sept. 10, the Vatican emphasized that all...

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Amid ongoing recovery after wildfires, getting children back to school is a priority, principal says

By Jennifer Rector HONOLULU (OSV News) — In the aftermath of the wildfires that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina on the island of...

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Martyred family’s ‘unprecedented’ beatification prompts theological reflection, pro-life prayers

UPDATE 9/5/2023: The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints clarified Sept. 5 that in including the Ulmas’ seventh child in the family’s Sept. 10...

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Gritty and gripping, ‘On the Waterfront’ still speaks a Godly truth

Much of the western world celebrates work and workers on May 1, either as the secular International Workers’ Day or the Catholic Feast of...

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NEW YORK (OSV News) – Underdog stories have a broad appeal, especially when they occur in real life. So the tale of Texan Rickey...

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