Read more about the article Learn from the synod, be ‘missionary disciples,’ pope tells U.S. seminarians
Pope Francis greets Bishop Edward C. Malesic of Cleveland before addressing members of the community of St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland at the Vatican March 6, 2023. The pope asked the seminarians to become "missionary disciples." (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Learn from the synod, be ‘missionary disciples,’ pope tells U.S. seminarians

Pope Francis greets Bishop Edward C. Malesic of Cleveland before addressing members of the community of St. Mary’s Seminary in Cleveland at the Vatican March 6, 2023. The pope asked…

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Read more about the article Suspect in shooting death of LA Bishop O’Connell charged with murder
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna comforts Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez while he speaks during a Feb. 20, 2023, news conference after the arrest of 61-year-old Carlos Medina, the suspect in the murder of Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Feb. 22 that Medina has been charged with murder. (OSV News photo/Victor Alemán, Angelus News)

Suspect in shooting death of LA Bishop O’Connell charged with murder

‘This man, this bishop, made a huge difference in our community,’

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Read more about the article Emotional LA sheriff details arrest of suspect in shooting death of Bishop O’Connell
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna comforts Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez while he speaks during a Feb. 20, 2023, news conference after the arrest of 65-year-old Carlos Medina, the suspect in the murder of Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell. Bishop O'Connell was found dead of a single gunshot wound Feb. 18 at his home in Hacienda Heights, a neighborhood east of Los Angeles. (OSV News photo/Victor Alemán, Angelus News)

Emotional LA sheriff details arrest of suspect in shooting death of Bishop O’Connell

Motive in shooting remains unclear

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Read more about the article LA’s ‘peacemaker’ Bishop David O’Connell found fatally shot in his home; death ruled a homicide
Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell and Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, then vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, share a light moment Nov. 12, 2019, after Archbishop Gomez was elected USCCB president during the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore. On Feb. 18, 2023, Los Angeles County sheriffs arrived at Bishop O'Connell's home at 1 p.m. to find the 69-year-old prelate dead of a gunshot wound to his upper torso, according to local news reports. His death was later ruled a homicide and an investigation was under way to find a suspect and motive. A native of Ireland, Bishop O'Connell spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in the inner city of Los Angeles. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Bob Roller)

LA’s ‘peacemaker’ Bishop David O’Connell found fatally shot in his home; death ruled a homicide

‘May Our Lady of Guadalupe wrap him in the mantle of her love, and may the angels lead him into paradise’

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Read more about the article Priest who offered up cancer for clerical abuse victims says he was healed at Lourdes
Father John Hollowell, pictured in a file photo celebrating Mass at Annunciation Church in Brazil, Ind., was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2020. He decided to offer his sufferings on behalf of clerical abuse victims, and received hundreds of letters of support. Now, following a June 2022 visit to Lourdes, Father Hollowell has learned from his doctors that the brain tumor has disappeared. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)

Priest who offered up cancer for clerical abuse victims says he was healed at Lourdes

‘I knew it was the answer to the prayer I had made two years earlier,’

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Read more about the article Polish family who sheltered Jews recalled on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Wiktoria Ulma is pictured writing at a table with her oldest daughter, Stasia. Józef and Wiktoria Ulma secretly gave shelter to eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland, hiding them from the murderous Nazi regime during the Second World War. The Ulmas are on the path to beatification with the Vatican declaring them martyrs Dec. 17, 2022. The Nazis killed the family and the Jews they were sheltering early in the morning March 24, 1944, right before Easter. (OSV NEWS photo/courtesy Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

Polish family who sheltered Jews recalled on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Family’s martyrdom paves way for beatification

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Read more about the article Where in the world is Catholic Mass attendance highest?
People are pictured in a file photo praying during a Mass for immigration reform at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in the Corona neighborhood of the New York borough of Queens. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) gathers results of a poll conducted by the World Values Survey and reports findings on Mass attendance worldwide, noting that pre-and-post-pandemic factors and economic correlations affect those numbers. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Gregory A. Shemitz)

Where in the world is Catholic Mass attendance highest?

Nigeria ranks first with 94% of Catholics attending Mass weekly or daily

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Read more about the article Bishop’s heroic crusade against America’s suicide epidemic is personal
Bishop John P. Dolan of Phoenix announces the creation of an Office of Mental Health Ministry Sept. 4, 2022, during the Diocese of Phoenix's first Mass of Remembrance for Suicide Victims at Ss. Simon & Jude Cathedral in Phoenix. (OSV News photo/Brett Meister, The Catholic Sun)

Bishop’s heroic crusade against America’s suicide epidemic is personal

‘When I’m able to talk about it, people come out of the woodwork to share’

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