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A Palestinian woman reacts after returning to her destroyed house in Gaza May 21, 2021, following the Israel-Hamas truce. The May 21 truce followed more than a week of fighting that claimed hundreds of lives. (CNS photo/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Reuters)

Pope calls for prayers for forgiveness, coexistence in Holy Land

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Post published:May 21, 2021
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Pope thanks God for halt to violence between Israelis, Palestinians

Gene Kritsky, dean of the School of Behavioral & Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, examines cicadas in this undated photo. (CNS photo/Gene Kritsky, Mount St. Joseph University)

Brood X cicadas don’t bug this Ohio Catholic university cicada expert

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Post published:May 20, 2021
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Tennessee one of 15 states where Brood X will emerge

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington May 11, 2021. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

High court to hear major abortion case from Mississippi in its next term

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Post published:May 19, 2021
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Pro-life advocates are pleased with the court’s decision to take this case.

A worker at Our Lady's Rosary Makers in Louisville, Ky., assembles a rosary in between calls with customers May 6, 2021. The group provides low-cost rosary supplies to Catholics across the country with the goal of providing tools for evangelization. (CNS photo/Katie Rutter)

Kentucky group provides rosary-making supplies locally, globally

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Post published:May 14, 2021
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Our Lady's Rosary Makers packages enough beads and other supplies to make 6.5 million rosaries each year

Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, attends a news conference at the Vatican in this March 1, 2018, file photo. In a May 7, 2021, letter, Cardinal Ladaria cautioned U.S. bishops about implementing a national policy on Communion for politicians who support "abortion, euthanasia or other moral evils." (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican official cautions U.S. bishops on politicians and Communion

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Post published:May 14, 2021
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U.S. bishops preparing to address Catholic politicians and ‘the worthiness to receive holy Communion’

Michael Ouma, a lay Catholic catechist who serves in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, is pictured in this Feb. 16, 2011, file photo. In a document released May 11, 2021, Pope Francis instituted the "ministry of catechist." (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)

Being a catechist is a vocation, pope says in establishing formal ministry

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Post published:May 12, 2021
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Formal institution into the ministry of catechist signifies that the service is stable, delegated by the bishop, and publicly recognized by the church.

Pope Francis speaks in a recorded video message to an online health care conference May 8, 2021. Health care must be free from inequality and open to all those who are ill, the pope said in his remarks to the "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul -- Unite to Prevent and Unite to Cure" conference. The conference was organized jointly by the Pontifical Council for Culture, its Science and Faith Foundation and the New York-based Cura Foundation and Stem for Life Foundation. (CNS photo/courtesy Meagher Group)

Pope thanks health care workers, urges equal access to care for all

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Post published:May 10, 2021
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Pope Francis underlined the importance of the conference uniting philosophical and theological reflection with scientific research, especially in the field of medicine.

Heba Ibrahim, 8, left, the youngest daughter in a family of Kurdish refugees, receives a rose from a family friend in Nashville in this 2016 file photo. The girl’s family had been in Turkey after fleeing Syria’s civil war and was now relocating to the U.S. with assistance from Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Nashville. President Joe Biden increased the annual refugee admissions by almost 48,000 people May 3, 2021.