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“What is the source of our hope?” asked Bishop Gregory L. Parkes of St. Petersburg, Fla. “The answer lies in the very heart of our faith — the Eucharist.”

The color yellow is customarily associated with the Virgin of Charity, and her shrines — including the one in Miami — are often graced with yellow flowers.

One pastor said his parishioners refocused and amplified a range of existing parish social and charitable projects in keeping with the Acts of Mercy Challenge.

“We urge you to spare Mr. Windom’s life. “Every human life, given by God, is sacred,” the Florida bishops wrote Aug. 21 to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A Central American nonprofit center in Florida reports one of its client family members — despite having an active asylum claim and no criminal record — was recently detained on …

A Franciscan monastery that survived an atomic bombing, the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, young adult groups inspired by Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and more were in our news coverage …

“Our ‘agenda’ was always to announce the ‘good news’ to the poor,” said Miami Archbishop Wenski.

MIAMI (OSV News) — Florida’s senior bishop is pressing local, state and federal authorities for permission to bring Catholic pastoral care to the already infamous Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center. Opened …

In a social media post, Archbishop Wenski noted that the Archdiocese of Miami “is still waiting for approval to access” Alligator Alcatraz “to provide Mass for detainees.”

This week in Washington: The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to conduct further layoffs of federal workers, declined to revive a hardline Florida immigration law, …