September 11

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An unborn child, a victim of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is remembered at the 9/11 memorial in New York City.

‘We’re having a problem on the plane’: Husband writes about losing wife, unborn child on 9/11

Sep 11, 2022

By Katie Yoder

Jack Grandcolas’ pregnant wife, Lauren, died on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers fought back... Read more

Father Tom Colucci.

How 9/11 led a first responder to the priesthood

Sep 11, 2021

By Kate Olivera, Jonah McKeown

Father Tom Colucci says he actually sees a lot of similarities between the priesthood and the fire service. Read more

St. John Paul II in prayer, c. 1991.

9/11: When John Paul II grieved with America

Sep 11, 2019

By Mary Farrow

As three airliners smashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, and Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania... Read more

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Nicaraguan political prisoner Juan Sebastian Chamorro speaks to the press ouside a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 9, 2023, after he was released by the Nicaraguan government.

Exiles describe Nicaragua regime’s ‘unholy war against the Catholic Church’ at congressional hearing

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Priest stripped of faculty to hear confessions after he advocated violating that sacrament in sex abuse cases

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Archbishop Gomez to lead 6-mile eucharistic procession through Los Angeles

Father Carlo Crespi Croci (1891-1982) holding a crucifix from his ethnographic collection in Cuenca, Ecuador.

Pope Francis puts a priest, three religious women, and two laywomen on path for sainthood

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Human composting, alkaline hydrolysis disrespect the human body, U.S. Catholic bishops say

Pope Francis waves at pilgrims from China at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Sept. 7, 2016.

Local Chinese authorities order parents at school to sign pledge renouncing their faith 

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What to know about contraceptives, breast cancer risk, and ‘informed choice’

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Bolivian bishop warns that ideologies in education harm society

Archbishop Ángel Sixto Rossi.

Archbishop denounces attack on home for young drug addicts in Argentina

The Frauenkirche, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

Prosecutors drop case of alleged ‘cover up’ against Benedict XVI

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Father Carlo Crespi Croci (1891-1982) holding a crucifix from his ethnographic collection in Cuenca, Ecuador.

Pope Francis puts a priest, three religious women, and two laywomen on path for sainthood

CNA

Priest stripped of faculty to hear confessions after he advocated violating that sacrament in sex abuse cases

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Archbishop Gomez to lead 6-mile eucharistic procession through Los Angeles

Pope Francis waves at pilgrims from China at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Sept. 7, 2016.

Local Chinese authorities order parents at school to sign pledge renouncing their faith 

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What to know about contraceptives, breast cancer risk, and ‘informed choice’