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Pro-life Democrats make the case for a 22-week abortion ban in Colorado
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Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Credit: University of Notre Dame

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After teacher beheaded, some in France turn to Fr. Jacques Hamel
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UK court to review Down Syndrome abortion law

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Zimbabwe's bishops encourage return to Mass in new guidelines
Pope Francis light a candle during an interreligious ceremony in the Campidoglio Square, Rome, Oct. 20, 2020. Credits: Vatican Media.

Pope Francis: ‘The world has a profound thirst for peace’
Department of Health and Human Services at the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building. Credit: Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock

Catholic diocese worked with HHS to get priests to COVID patients
Bishop Kurt Burnette, pictured before his appointment as bishop of the Ruthenian Eparchy of Passaic in 2013. Courtesy of the Ruthenian Eparchy of Passaic.

Pope Francis appoints bishop in US as administrator of Canadian eparchy
Sign at the U.S.-Mexico border. Credit: Chess Ocampo/Shutterstock

Supreme Court takes case against 'Remain in Mexico' asylum policy
A statue of St. Rita at the entrance of the Italian town of Cascia, donated by Lebanon in 2015.

Shrine of patroness of impossible causes launches Lebanon prayer campaign
Servant of God Wanda Błeńska (1911-2014). Credit: wysokieobcasy.pl (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Beatification cause of ‘mother of lepers’ opens in Poland
Bishop Marcello Semeraro presides over the closing of the tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis in Assisi, Italy, Oct. 19. 2020. Credit: Diocese of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino.

Blessed Carlo Acutis: 41,000 people visited Italian teen’s tomb amid beatification
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev, pictured in 2014. Credit: Redaktor01 Remik Kubicki (CC BY 3.0).

Exiled Catholic archbishop meets with senior Vatican officials
Sen. Diane Feinstein and Sen. Lindsey Graham embrace after the hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Oct. 15, 2020. Credit: C-SPAN.

Abortion groups target Feinstein after Amy Coney Barrett hearings
Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Credit: University of Notre Dame

Poll: Catholic likely voters support Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination
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Spain's twentieth century martyrs were not only from Spanish Civil War
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After teacher beheaded, some in France turn to Fr. Jacques Hamel
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