Read more about the article Praise, protest for Pope Francis’ outreach to LGBTQ persons
Pope Francis greets Jesuit Father James Martin, author and editor at large of America magazine, during a private meeting at the Vatican in this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo. Father Martin, a consultor to the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, ministers extensively to LGBTQ persons. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Praise, protest for Pope Francis’ outreach to LGBTQ persons

Pope Francis provides a ‘desperately needed vision for some kind of good future

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Read more about the article 10 years as pope: Pushing the Church to bring the Gospel to the world
Pope Francis listens to a question while responding to journalists aboard his flight from Tallinn, Estonia, to Rome in this Sept. 25, 2018, file photo. In his message for World Communications Day, the pope said that "there is no good journalism without the ability to listen." (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

10 years as pope: Pushing the Church to bring the Gospel to the world

‘John Paul II told us what we should do. Benedict told us why we should do it. And Francis is saying, “Do it”’

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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 Pope brings Latin American Catholic experience to the universal Church
Pope Francis walks with Rafael Correa, then-president of Ecuador, during an arrival ceremony at Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Ecuador, July 5, 2015. Pope Francis has returned to his native Latin America six times in the 10 years of his pontificate. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope brings Latin American Catholic experience to the universal Church

‘Pope Francis is going ahead with this challenge that started with the Second Vatican Council’

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Read more about the article Marriage is a gift from God that benefits everyone, pope says
Pope Francis signs an autograph for a boy at the end of an audience with members of the Roman Rota, a Vatican court, Rota employees and members of their families Jan. 27, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Marriage is a gift from God that benefits everyone, pope says

‘The love between husband and wife needs continual purification and maturation’

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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 Pope Francis condemns ‘spiral of death’ in the Holy Land
Friends and family mourn at the funeral of Rafael Ben Eliyahu, who was killed in a shooting attack in a synagogue by a Palestinian gunman, at a cemetery in Jerusalem, Jan. 29, 2023. (CNS photo/Ronen Zvulun, Reuters)

Pope Francis condemns ‘spiral of death’ in the Holy Land

Calls on Israelis, Palestinians to find way to end the violence

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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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