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Bishop Alberto Rojas of San Bernardino, Calif., the main celebrant, distributes Communion to a detainee during a Mass on the grounds of the ICE Processing Center near Adelanto, Calif., Dec. 10, 2025. Attendees said the Mass, which took place in the Mojave Desert, was deeply emotional for both the bishops and the roughly 300 detainees present.

California bishops celebrate ‘very powerful’ Mass for detainees in ICE facility

A group of seven California bishops celebrated Mass at the ICE Processing Center outside the town of Adelanto in the Mojave Desert on December 10, providing communion to the roughly 300 detainees present.
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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’ tells the story of an empire of hope built by a 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.
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Alabama House, Senate pass similar bills to safeguard IVF; once reconciled, bill goes to governor

Alabama lawmakers in both the state's House and Senate Feb. 29 passed similar bills to implement legal protections to in vitro fertilization clinics following a ruling by that state's Supreme Court that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state ...
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Church Militant to shut down as defamation saga ignited by a radical traditionalist sect concludes

Trapped in a vortex of scandal, the Ferndale, Michigan-based Church Militant is shutting down, the concluding chapter for the online news outlet thanks to a legal drama set in motion by a fringe traditionalist group and its canon lawyer, who ...
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Walgreens, CVS pharmacies to begin dispensing pills used for abortion, early miscarriage

Two major U.S. pharmacy chains have announced they will begin dispensing the drug mifepristone, which has been prescribed for both abortion and early miscarriage, within the coming days.
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