Read more about the article ‘The Challenge of Peace’ 40 years later: Durable principles, changed world
In this 2014 file photo, an unarmed AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress Utah Test and Training Range during a Nuclear Weapons System Evaluation Program sortie. (CNS photo/Air Force, Staff Sgt. Roidan Carlson, Handout via Reuters)

‘The Challenge of Peace’ 40 years later: Durable principles, changed world

‘It was a different world, but it was a time, in my memory, that people were really scared’

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Read more about the article Pope announces a second session for Synod of Bishops assembly
Cardinals and bishops attend the closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Oct. 28, 2018, file photo. On Oct. 2, 2022, Pope Francis heard syntheses from the listening phase of the 2023 Synod of Bishops. (CNS photo/Claudio Peri, pool via Reuters)

Pope announces a second session for Synod of Bishops assembly

‘It is necessary not to be in a rush’

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Read more about the article Sharing stories of faith revives faith of others, pope tells magazine staff
Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with the staff of "Mondo e Missione," the magazine of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Oct. 13, 2022. Helping the staff celebrate the magazine's 150th anniversary, the pope said Catholic media have a mission to help believers get to know the faith and struggles of their brothers and sisters around the world. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Sharing stories of faith revives faith of others, pope tells magazine staff

‘In a world where communications have apparently shortened distances, ideological border controls have multiplied’

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Read more about the article Youth want community, safe spaces in church, council members tell pope
Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia takes a selfie with Pope Francis at the end of the pope's weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square Oct. 12, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Youth want community, safe spaces in church, council members tell pope

‘The pope should send videos to youth directly about social issues that we might have’

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Read more about the article Rally participants gather near U.S. Capitol to pray rosary for the nation
Brandon Alvarado, left, and his mother, Evangelina Alvarado, walk from the Minnesota State Capitol to the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 7, 2022, during an annual candlelight rosary procession. Several hundred participated in the procession, including Auxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Williams of St. Paul and Minneapolis, who led a prayer service at the cathedral following the procession. (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)

Rally participants gather near U.S. Capitol to pray rosary for the nation

‘It is an act of love – praying for conversion is the duty of every believer’

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Read more about the article Refusal to help migrants is ‘sinful, criminal,’ pope says at canonization
A portrait of St. Artemide Zatti is displayed as Pope Francis celebrates Mass for the canonizations of Sts. Zatti and Giovanni Battista Scalabrini at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Refusal to help migrants is ‘sinful, criminal,’ pope says at canonization

‘Let us ask ourselves if we are really communities truly open and inclusive of all’

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Read more about the article Pope encourages young people to be peacemakers
Pope Francis greets a baby as he arrives for a meeting with a group of young Belgian Catholics Oct. 10, 2022, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. With Russia's war on Ukraine raging, the pope urged the young people to be peacemakers in their families and in the world. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope encourages young people to be peacemakers

‘Be artisans of peace around you and within you’

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Read more about the article Dream of ‘synodality’ is a fruit of Vatican II, cardinal writes
Bishops are pictured in a file photo during a Vatican II session inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Marking the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, said that while "synodality" was not a term used by the council, it reflects the council's vision of the church. (CNS file photo)

Dream of ‘synodality’ is a fruit of Vatican II, cardinal writes

‘The synod has constantly placed itself at the service of the council, contributing for its part to renewing the face of the Church’

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Read more about the article Immigration advocates say DACA ruling should push Congress to act
Demonstrators attend a rally near the U.S. Capitol in Washington Sept. 26, 2017, calling for passage of the DREAM Act, which would have created a path to citizenship for "Dreamers," the beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. A federal appeals court ruled Oct. 5, 2022, that DACA is unlawful but it agreed to preserve the program for existing recipients. President Barack Obama created the program in 2012 by executive action. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Immigration advocates say DACA ruling should push Congress to act

'DACA recipients are hard-working, tax-paying, upstanding members of our communities’

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Read more about the article Saints have joyful hearts, not long faces, pope says
Pope Francis looks at artwork of himself presented by a nun during an audience with the participants of a symposium on "Holiness Today," sponsored by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, at the Vatican Oct. 6, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Saints have joyful hearts, not long faces, pope says

‘Without this joy, faith shrinks into an oppressive and dreary thing’

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