Archive for May 4, 2019

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In South Sudan, the 'Blue Sisters' bring hope to abused women

They were founded three decades ago in southern Sudan, and named the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary. But in... Read more

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By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis urges Swiss Guard to witness to the joy of faith

Pope Francis encouraged the Swiss Guard Saturday to use their work, and the encounters they have in and around Vatican... Read more

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Scientists join call for moratorium on embryonic gene editing

A group of 62 doctors, scientists, and bioethicists have issued an open letter urging a global moratorium on experiments that... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV addresses Catholic faithful on the scoreboard at Rate Field, home to the Chicago White Sox, during a celebration and Mass to honor his selection as Pope on June 14, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.

Pope Leo XIV encourages young people to be 'beacons of hope' at Chicago event

A Brooklyn Park police officer looks on while guarding the entrance to a neighborhood on June 14, 2025 in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

'Senseless violence': Minnesota Catholic leaders respond to shooting, murder of lawmakers

The front door of 212 E. 141st Place, the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, in Dolton, Illinois.

Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Chicago could go for more than $1 million

Deacons gather in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome in February. The number of deacons in the U.S. has declined year over year, according to a recent report, June 13, 2025.

Annual report finds there are ‘not enough’ deacons being ordained in the U.S.

Fernando Moscardó (center) and his friend Patricia (far left) meet with Pope Leo XIV and Bishop Mikel Garciandía of Palencia (right) after the Holy Father’s general audience on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

Young people present to Pope Leo XIV their spiritual renewal project for Europe

The McCoppin family (from left): Alyssa, Courteney, James, Rhys, and Kelly, poses for a photo after entering the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil on April 8, 2023, at Sacred Heart Church in Manassas.

Virginia teen’s Catholic school journey inspires whole family’s conversion

Volunteers and staff with Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley assist Latin American and Haitian migrants at a migrant shelter in McAllen, Texas.

House launches probe of Catholic nongovernmental organizations’ role aiding migrants

Mother Carmen Rendiles and Dr. José Gregorio Hernández are scheduled to be proclaimed Venezuela’s first saints on Oct. 19, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV to canonize 7 saints on Oct. 19

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many Catholic young people today for his enthusiastic witness to holiness that reaches “to the heights.”

Here is the miracle that makes possible Pier Giorgio Frassati’s canonization

Pope Leo XIV presides over the first ordinary public consistory of cardinals of his pontificate on June 13, 2025, at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV: ‘The gravest form of poverty is not to know God’

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