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People attend a vigil in support of immigration detainees at the entrance of "Alligator Alcatraz" Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, detention center at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Fla., Aug. 10, 2025. (OSV New/Marco Bello, Reuters)

More states move to copy ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ amid reports of inhumane conditions

August 22, 2025
A Central American nonprofit center in Florida reports one of its client family members -- despite having an active asylum claim and no criminal record -- was recently detained on his way to work and sent to Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz."
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Pilgrims gather near a portrait of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the Church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome, where his relics are displayed July 31, 2025, during the Jubilee of Youth, ahead of his Sept. 7 canonization. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Acutis relics a reminder for pilgrims that holiness ‘is not impossible’

August 4, 2025
Along one of Rome's busiest streets, Via del Corso, traffic moves slowly as hundreds of pilgrims crisscross traffic on foot to get to their destination.
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Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen amid a hunger crisis in the central Gaza Strip July 29, 2025.

Against the odds, CRS has delivered aid to 1.7 million in Gaza since 2023

July 31, 2025
Despite daunting odds, Catholic Relief Services and its on-the-ground partners have managed to deliver aid to 1.7 million people in Gaza since 2023, according to new data.
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New York City police officers stand at attention for the ambulance transfer of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City early July 29, 2025.

‘Never get used to violence,’ says NY cardinal after mass shooting near St. Patrick’s

July 30, 2025
"We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life," said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, following a deadly mass shooting in that city that claimed four lives, including that of ...
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Cardinals Robert W. McElroy of Washington, Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, and Archbishops John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., and Paul D. Etienne of Seattle, are pictured in a combination photo.

US prelates head to Japan on ‘Pilgrimage of Peace’ amid nuclear fears old and new

July 29, 2025
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- and as renewed nuclear threats emerge in current conflicts -- several U.S. Catholic bishops will travel to Japan on a "Pilgrimage of Peace."
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Visitors hold an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe as they gather in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the Angelus with Pope Leo XIV July 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope welcomes young people to Rome for jubilee, thanks media for promoting truth

July 28, 2025
Greeting tens of thousands of visitors crowded in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV welcomed all the young people who arrived in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth.
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Thousands of young Poles make their way through the streets of Czestochowa, Poland, July 19, 2025, singing and praying as they approached the Jasna Góra Marian shrine. This year's annual pilgrimage and camp marked the 25th anniversary of the Foundation "Dzielo Nowego Tysiaclecia" (Work of the New Millennium), a vibrant "living memorial" to St. John Paul II, supporting talented youth from underprivileged backgrounds. (OSV News photo/courtesy Sara Janikowska, Work of the New Millennium)

Poland’s memorial to St. John Paul II marks 25 years of transforming lives

July 25, 2025
Thousands of young Poles made their way through the streets of Częstochowa July 19, singing and praying as they approached the Jasna Góra Marian shrine.
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