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A man in a wheelchair talks to a nurse at the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France, May 31, 2024. In an Aug. 13, 2025, statement The Uruguay bishops' conference expressed sadness after the country's lower house of Congress approved a bill decriminalizing euthanasia. (OSV News photo/Manon Cruz, Reuters)

Uruguay bishops express sadness over euthanasia vote

The Uruguay bishops’ conference expressed sadness after the country’s lower house of Congress approved a bill decriminalizing euthanasia.

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El Papa León XIV celebra la Misa con personas asistidas por la agencia diocesana de Cáritas en el Santuario de Santa Maria della Rotonda en Albano Laziale, Italia, 17 de agosto de 2025. (Foto CNS/Lola Gomez)

Burn with ‘fire’ of God’s love, pope says at Mass, lunch with the poor

Spending the day with the poor, Pope Leo XIV prayed that Catholics would make sure their parishes are welcoming of all people and would be "on fire" with God's love.
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A woman protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts outside U.S. immigration court in New York City Aug. 14, 2025. (OSV News photo/David 'Dee' Delgado, Reuters)

Kansas bishops: ‘Raids, mass detentions’ betray Gospel, US values

The Catholic bishops of Kansas Aug. 14 called on the faithful to remember the dignity of every person, "especially those fleeing hardship," and urged public officials "to use existing legal discretion to treat undocumented migrants humanely."
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Polish actor Marcin Kwasny portrays Polish Conventual Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe at the Nazis' main Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died Aug. 14, 1941.

‘Christianity is about being present in suffering,’ director of new film about St. Kolbe says

Rather than beginning with St. Maximilian Kolbe's early life or missionary work, new film "Triumph of the Heart" opens at the moment many accounts conclude: his entry into the starvation cell.
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A woman with a child evacuates from a residential building damaged by Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 16, 2022.

Pope says he hopes Trump-Putin meeting leads to ceasefire in Ukraine

Arriving in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV told reporters he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin can find a way to reach a ceasefire in Russia's war on Ukraine when they meet in Alaska.
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In this Sept. 10, 2005 file photo, homes are surrounded by floodwater and oil slicks in St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans, La.

20 years ago, Katrina hit New Orleans hard; today, the Crescent City is rising with hope

In late 2005, just two months after Hurricane Katrina, the American Institute of Architects tabbed Boston-based urban planner David Dixon, to organize a national recovery conference with the goal of providing a roadmap for New Orleans out of the chaos ...
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Members of the SHARE Ministry at St. Agatha Church in Los Angeles pray during a food distribution event on July 12, 2025, for families in need.

As Latino communities live in fear of ICE, LA Catholics find ways to help hurting families

In largely Latino communities across Southern California shaken by weeks of immigration enforcement raids on city sidewalks and local businesses, the fear has forced unauthorized immigrants inside, shut out from work, from church, from life. But all that fear has ...
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