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Un bombero trabaja cerca de las casas durante una tormenta de viento en Altadena, California, el 8 de enero de 2025, que alimentó feroces incendios forestales. Los incendios arrasaron la zona de Los Ángeles con una fuerza devastadora el 8 de enero, tras desencadenar una huida desesperada de los residentes de las casas en llamas a través de el fuego, vientos feroces e imponentes nubes de humo. (Foto OSV News/David Swanson, Reuters)

LA wildfires: Survivors lean on faith through the flames

Survivors of the Los Angeles wildfires say their Catholic faith is bringing them through the flames.
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John Garvey, CUA president, stepping down in June

John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington since 2010, announced Sept. 22 that he will be stepping down from the role he described as "an honor and a privilege" at the end of June.
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In Washington, saints join a crowd marching for immigration reform

Mario Ramirez of Milwaukee helped carry part of a homemade statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe that bobbed in the massive crowd headed toward the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building Sept. 21.
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Vatican to require vaccination proof or negative COVID-19 test

Visitors, tourists and employees who want to enter Vatican territory will be required beginning Oct. 1 to show proof of vaccination, recovery from the coronavirus or a negative COVID-19 test.
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Donation called expression of U.S. Catholics’ affection for Paris cathedral

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington has collected and donated nearly half a million dollars to assist the restoration and rebuilding efforts of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was extensively damaged in ...
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Architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City State replica

We all know Rome wasn't built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave him a running start over Julius Caesar.
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Pope: Bishops must handle Communion debate as shepherds, not with censures

The debate about denying Communion to politicians who support abortion must be handled in a pastoral way, not by public condemnations that seek to "excommunicate" Catholics who are not in line with church teaching, Pope Francis said.
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