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Scandinavia's Catholic Church is witnessing unprecedented growth, with more people turning to the faith in reaction to the region's highly secularized culture.
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Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles calls on Catholics to prepare for the 500th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2031 as a time of spiritual renewal and a new missionary awakening in the Americas.
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"When someone leaves, it is important to ask questions, and to learn from it, for the benefit of the whole Church," said Sara Perla at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
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Pope Leo XIV urged educators to recognize the challenges facing young people today, saying many struggle with "digital loneliness," broken families and anxiety about the future.
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"How would you justify to people of faith, especially those of us who try to follow the Gospel, how the behavior of the ICE men and women can constantly be justified in terms of the kind of values we want to live by?" asked Sister Nancy
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A dozen U.S. Catholic bishops met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Oct. 22, for a meeting that a White House official indicated included discussions on topics like religious freedom and school choice.
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Lately, instead of greeting the day with “thank you, Lord, that I get to have another one!” I rise with a cranky growl, mentally grousing at God and giving the saints a bit of Irish lip, too.
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Haitian Catholics in Philadelphia are marking a half century of faith and fellowship, amid Trump administration crackdowns on immigration, uncertainty about current deportation protections and ongoing gang violence in Haiti.
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"It's kind of delving into our history, our heart, realizing that from hundreds of years ago that holy people walked here in our soil and what they went through for our faith to be here today."
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Archbishop el-Kassis noted that humanity's rapidly expanding activities in space -- particularly in the realms of communications, navigation and scientific research -- confirm a "growing reliance on outer space" in modern life.
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Alberta voters decided against starting the process toward a binding referendum on separation from Canada, but their support for other questions on the Oct. 19 ballot could leave the province with deep divisions that need to be healed.
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A proposed and later canceled livestream of a military execution and the botched execution of a Tennessee inmate should prompt "renewed courage and determination" to end capital punishment, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City said Oct. 21.
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A significant number of Catholic health workers in Illinois are now covered by a temporary restraining order on the state's new physician assisted suicide law that took effect Sept. 12.
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The Vatican’s doctrine office has released a new document aimed at helping Catholics share the faith amid what it calls an “epochal change” in culture.
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Pope Leo XIV told leaders of the American Jewish Committee on Oct. 22 that the Catholic Church remains committed to friendship with the Jewish people and to rejecting every form of ethnic and religious discrimination.
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The Savannah Bananas are coming to Notre Dame in June 2027, bringing their unconventional brand of baseball to a university where tradition rarely needs an introduction.
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As the Catholic Church marks the Oct. 22 feast of St. John Paul II, scholars and Church leaders are pointing to the late pope's teachings as a guide for navigating the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.
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Pope Leo XIV has officially opened registration for World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul, South Korea, urging young Catholics worldwide to view the gathering not as a sightseeing trip, but as a life-changing pilgrimage.
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The 11th National Eucharistic Congress will be held in Indianapolis in 2029.
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While six years separate the two most recent U.S. beatifications of Blessed Michael J. McGivney in 2020 and Blessed Fulton J. Sheen on Sept. 24, mere weeks pass before the next: five Franciscan friars known as the Georgia Martyrs on Oct. 31.
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