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Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, who heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, blesses the Holy Door after it was sealed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Dec. 3, 2023, the first Sunday of Advent. (OSV News photo/Alex Cranstoun, courtesy Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception) Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, who heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, blesses the Holy Door after it was sealed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Dec. 3, 2023, the first Sunday of Advent. (OSV News photo/Alex Cranstoun, courtesy Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception)

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Archbishop exhorts Advent vigilance as national shrine’s Holy Door sealed

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A lantern is lit with a flame from the Peace Light during a ceremony at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2023. After its arrival on Austria Airlines, the Peace Light, a continuous flame originating in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, it will be taken across North America by a network of drivers formed by the Boy Scouts and volunteers will transfer the flame as a sign of "peace, harmony, and unity among all people of the world." (OSV News photo/Alicia Venter, The Tablet)

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Message of Peace Light, now in US, seen as more urgent amid Israel-Hamas war

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Nuclear disarmament a ‘critical pro-life issue’ more immediate than climate change, warns archbishop

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Let the warmth of Advent pull the bleak midwinter from you

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El cardenal Pietro Parolin, secretario de estado del Vaticano, aparece en esta captura de pantalla leyendo el discurso del Papa Francisco en la COP28, la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático, el 2 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (Foto CNS /screen grab, YouTube, COP28 UAE Official) El cardenal Pietro Parolin, secretario de estado del Vaticano, aparece en esta captura de pantalla leyendo el discurso del Papa Francisco en la COP28, la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático, el 2 de diciembre de 2023, en Dubái, Emiratos Árabes Unidos. (Foto CNS /screen grab, YouTube, COP28 UAE Official)

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El Papa pide a los líderes del mundo que acaben con las divisiones para luchar contra el cambio climático

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