Read more about the article Showing love, mercy are key to entering heaven, pope says on All Souls’ Day
Pope Francis prays during a memorial Mass for cardinals and bishops who have died over the past year, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 2, 2022, All Souls' Day. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Showing love, mercy are key to entering heaven, pope says on All Souls’ Day

God ‘waits for us among the poor and wounded of the world’

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Read more about the article Faith Alive: Vocation to religious life: a fateful email
Bishop J. Mark Spalding of Nashville, Tenn., blesses eight members of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia during their perpetual profession ceremony at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville July 25, 2019. National Vocations Awareness Week is Nov. 6-12, 2022. (CNS photo/Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register)

Faith Alive: Vocation to religious life: a fateful email

‘Beyond all logic, I felt God beckoning me’

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Read more about the article Seattle Catholics celebrate 10th anniversary of St. Kateri’s canonization
St. Anne Sister Kateri Mitchell, carrying a relic of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, and Jake Finkbonner of Ferndale, carrying a turtle shell, process into St. James Cathedral Oct. 22 for a Mass celebrating the 10th anniversary of St. Kateri's canonization. Jake was 6 when he was healed of flesh-eating bacteria the day after Sister Kateri placed a Kateri relic on him and joined Jake's mother in praying for him. His recovery was the second miracle needed to elevate Kateri to sainthood. (CNS photo/Stephen Brashear, Northwest Catholic)

Seattle Catholics celebrate 10th anniversary of St. Kateri’s canonization

‘She was called to be a saint from the day she was born’

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Read more about the article Bishops urge Congress to be in ‘radical solidarity’ with mothers, children
A woman in Providence, R.I., is seen at St. Gabriel's Call outreach in this undated photo. The program of the Diocese of Providence assists expectant mothers in Rhode Island with necessary items for their babies and offers them loving support throughout their pregnancies. (CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Providence)

Bishops urge Congress to be in ‘radical solidarity’ with mothers, children

‘We hope for the day when abortion is unthinkable’

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Read more about the article Synod reports show enthusiasm for mission, but also identify obstacles
Women pray at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Cairo April 23, 2017. The issue of the role of women in the church came up repeatedly in listening sessions preparing for the Synod of Bishops on synodality. (CNS photo/Mohamed Abd El Ghany, Reuters)

Synod reports show enthusiasm for mission, but also identify obstacles

All are called to look at each person as ‘someone loved by God’

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Read more about the article Pope: Church’s concern for the family goes beyond focus on couples
Pope Francis caresses the cheek of a child during an audience Oct. 24, 2022, with students and staff of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and Family in the Vatican's Clementine Hall. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope: Church’s concern for the family goes beyond focus on couples

‘We are not prophets of doom, but of hope’

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Read more about the article To help those in hiding, catechists from Myanmar deliver food, supplies
Pah Kler, a Burmese Catholic catechist who supervises the movement of food and other humanitarian supplies to internally displaced families hiding in the forests of Myanmar, loads food on a boat in Mae Sam Laep, a Thai village on the Salween River, which marks the border between Thailand and Myanmar, Sept. 29, 2022. Boats are loaded here with food and other humanitarian supplies, the first stage of transporting the material to communities of displaced people within Myanmar. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)

To help those in hiding, catechists from Myanmar deliver food, supplies

‘These people are as close as I’ve come to meeting real saints’

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Read more about the article Rights groups: Haitian gang violence has ‘disproportionate impact’ on women
A woman holds a baby in her arms in a school that serves as a shelter in Tabarre, Haiti, May 14, 2022, after two weeks of turf wars between rival gangs forced residents to flee their homes. (CNS photo/Ralph Tedy Erol, Reuters)

Rights groups: Haitian gang violence has ‘disproportionate impact’ on women

“Multiple crises affecting the country are exposing girls to constant risks of ill-treatment’

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Read more about the article Bishops wrestled with possibility of nuclear annihilation in pastoral letter
This is a general view of Hiroshima, Japan, six months after the U.S. dropped an atomic bob on the city Aug. 6, 1945. (CNS photo/Reuters)

Bishops wrestled with possibility of nuclear annihilation in pastoral letter

‘We possess a power which should never be used, but which might be used if we do not reverse our direction’

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