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Father Jack Wall, president of Catholic Extension, presents Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves of San Juan, Puerto Rico, center, with Catholic Extension’s 2023 Spirit of Francis Award in New York City Nov. 28. Also pictured are Cardinals Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, left, and Christophe Pierre, nuncio to the United States. (OSV News photo/courtesy Catholic Extension) Father Jack Wall, president of Catholic Extension, presents Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves of San Juan, Puerto Rico, center, with Catholic Extension’s 2023 Spirit of Francis Award in New York City Nov. 28. Also pictured are Cardinals Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, left, and Christophe Pierre, nuncio to the United States. (OSV News photo/courtesy Catholic Extension)

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Archbishop honored for ‘shepherding’ Puerto Rico after hurricane, amid economic downturn

NEW YORK (OSV News) — Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan, Puerto Rico, “possesses a passionate heart that beats with a pastor’s love...

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Hay más alegría en dar que en recibir

Por Silvio Cuéllar Acabamos de celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias y el ambiente está ahora lleno de música navideña, y somos constantemente...

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Grazyna Slawinska, a Polish volunteer in Ukraine, is pictured in July 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. She lost her right leg right below the knee in a mortar shell explosion in Bakhmut, Ukraine, Jan. 6, 2023, when she was delivering Christmas aid to people in the city she describes as "the biggest hell on earth." Six months later she was back in Ukraine, helping people with disabilities survive the ongoing war and continues to help there. (OSV News photo/Hubert Szczypek)

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Despite losing leg in Ukraine explosion, volunteer returns to war-torn country to help people with disabilities

By Filip Mazurczak KRAKÓW, Poland (OSV News) — As the world celebrated International Volunteer Day Dec. 5, Grazyna Slawinska, a young Polish volunteer who...

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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)

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

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — “Waiting is one of the watchwords of the liturgical season of Advent, which we begin today,” Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio...

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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

By Alicia Venter QUEENS, N.Y. (OSV News) — As Catholics across the New York metropolitan area were given the opportunity to light their first...

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Opinion

Q & A: Can one Mass satisfy both my Sunday and Christmas obligation in 2023?

Q:Since Christmas is on Monday this year, can I go to a Christmas vigil Mass on Sunday and have it fulfill my Sunday and...

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

By Steven Schwankert NEW YORK (OSV News) — The threat from nuclear weapons is as great now as ever, and their destructive power is...

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Africa

Women break stereotypes to encourage interreligious dialogue in violence-torn Nigeria

By Valentine Benjamin ABUJA, Nigeria (OSV News) — While religion was not originally an issue linked to conflicts in the country, deeply rooted religious...

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Texas Supreme Court considers request for clarity on exemptions to abortion ban

(OSV News) — The Texas Supreme Court Nov. 28 heard arguments in a challenge to the state’s abortion ban after a group of women...

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Poll: Bipartisan majority backs U.S. role in global AIDS response amid debate on reauthorizing PEPFAR

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Amid ongoing debate in Congress over the reauthorization of PEPFAR, a majority of voters support the United States continuing its...

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