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Jorge Granados, aka El Spanky, blesses Cristal, his image of La Santa Muerte, with beer Jan. 1, 2024, as he prepares for an annual pilgrimage from Ecatepec, Mexico, to the shrine of La Santa Muerte in Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood. Mexico's bishops criticized the use of an image of Santa Muerte, or St. Death, in political advertising during the presidential campaigns. (OSV News photo/Gustavo Graf, Reuters)

Mexico’s bishops denounce use of Santa Muerte in political advertising

Mexico's bishops have blasted the use of the folkloric La Santa Muerte by the country's ruling party as a distortion of the nation's "fundamental values" ahead of presidential and local elections, which have been marred by violence and the killing ...
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Orlando, a migrant from Ecuador, carries four-year-old Peter as they wade through the Rio Grande from Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas, Oct. 6, 2023. (OSV News photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters)

Judge upholds program allowing some migrants to enter US

A federal judge March 8 dismissed a challenge from Republican-led states, allowing the Biden administration to continue operating a program permitting some migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.
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This image is part of the promotional material for "Follow That Bishop," a 28-minute documentary reporting on the FBI file kept on Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. (OSV News photo/courtesy Rome Reports)

Documentary covers FBI file kept on Archbishop Sheen

Nearly 75 years after he stopped teaching at The Catholic University of America in Washington, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) can still fill a campus auditorium.
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Mike Sullivan, president of the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio, is pictured in an undated photo explaining the components of a standard furnace to a student. New Catholic schools across the U.S are part of a growing trend for career-focused education in fields such as construction, carpentry, and HVAC, while integrating spiritual growth into vocational training. (OSV News photo/courtesy College of St. Joseph the Worker)

New Catholic Trade Schools Prepare Careers and Spiritual Vocations

Construction and architecture. Carpentry and HVAC. Machine and systems technology. All career fields with robust hiring futures — and all career fields young Catholics can pursue in a Christ-centered education environment
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Ukrainian Catholic faithful pray for peace in Ukraine at a March 7, 2024, service at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia. Following the service, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, addressed those present and urged them to remain confident of Ukraine's victory over Russian aggression. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)

Ukrainian major archbishop tells US Catholics: ‘Ukraine will prevail’

As Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine continues into its third year, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church reassured faithful in the U.S. that Ukraine's forces will oust Russia's occupying armies.
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Alabama governor signs IVF bill pro-life groups call ‘ill-considered’ and ‘unjust’

Alabama's Republican Gov. Kay Ivey March 6 signed into law a bill passed by lawmakers to grant legal protection to in vitro fertilization clinics after a ruling by that state's Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under ...
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‘Cabrini’ film tells the story of an empire of hope built by a ‘little woman’ with great faith

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini faced life-threatening health struggles and a crippling fear of water due to a near-drowning experience. And yet, she founded an order of missionary sisters tending to the poor and orphaned in dangerous parts of New York ...
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