Read more about the article Families and forgiveness: Australian family shares their tragic story
Leila Abdallah holds her 3-month-old daughter, Selina, at the Domus Australia in Rome June 24, 2022. Leila and her husband, Danny Abdallah, were scheduled to speak June 25 at the World Meeting of Families at the Vatican about the tragic deaths of three of their children in 2020 and how they forgave the drunk driver who killed them. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)

Families and forgiveness: Australian family shares their tragic story

'As a Christian, I am meant to forgive’

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Read more about the article New York State Catholic Conference ‘troubled’ by court’s gun law ruling
Guns are displayed in the Queens borough of New York City June 12, 2021, after a gun buyback event organized by the New York City Police Department. In a decision issued June 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to limit state and local governments from restricting people's ability to carrying guns outside the home. (CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters)

New York State Catholic Conference ‘troubled’ by court’s gun law ruling

Hours after court ruling, Senate adopts gun bill

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Read more about the article To evangelize is to live the Gospel, then share it, pope says
Pope Francis greets Father Valdir José De Castro, superior general of the Pauline Fathers, during an audience with participants in the order's general chapter, at the Vatican June 18, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

To evangelize is to live the Gospel, then share it, pope says

’The push of the Holy Spirit is what makes us come out of ourselves’

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Read more about the article World free of nuclear weapons is necessary, possible, pope says
Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, and Mikhail Mishustin, Russian prime minister, attend a meeting in Moscow in this Nov. 9, 2021, file photo. Archbishop Gallagher read a message from Pope Francis in Vienna June 21 at the first Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The pope wrote that nuclear weapons are a "risk multiplier," not a deterrent to war. (CNS photo/Sputnik/Alexander Astafyev/pool via Reuters)

World free of nuclear weapons is necessary, possible, pope says

’A world free from nuclear weapons is both necessary and possible’

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Read more about the article War, Vatican II, decision making: Pope shares insights with Jesuit editors
Pope Francis meets with the editors of 10 European Jesuit magazines and Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, May 19, 2022, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. The pope responded to the editors' questions about the war in Ukraine, the current state of the Catholic Church and how he makes decisions when a diocese is experiencing turmoil. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

War, Vatican II, decision making: Pope shares insights with Jesuit editors

’The council that some pastors remember best is that of Trent’

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Read more about the article Vatican releases suggestions for lengthier, revamped marriage preparation
Pope Francis greets newly married couples during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 4, 2022. The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life has released guidelines and suggestions for developing a "matrimonial catechumenate," a yearlong preparation for marriage and family life. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican releases suggestions for lengthier, revamped marriage preparation

Marriage ‘is a vocation, a journey to holiness that embraces one’s entire life’

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Read more about the article Vatican releases suggestions for lengthier, revamped marriage preparation
Pope Francis greets newly married couples during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 4, 2022. The Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life has released guidelines and suggestions for developing a "matrimonial catechumenate," a yearlong preparation for marriage and family life. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican releases suggestions for lengthier, revamped marriage preparation

Marriage ‘is a vocation, a journey to holiness that embraces one’s entire life’

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Read more about the article Ancient marble columns from Church of the Holy Sepulcher get a museum home
Workers secure an ancient column from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for transport to the archeology wing of the Franciscan Terra Santa Museum in Jerusalem's Old City June 9, 2022. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)

Ancient marble columns from Church of the Holy Sepulcher get a museum home

’It is very exciting but it also very stressful’

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