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Jubilee years encourage holier heart, prettier city
When a Holy Year is proclaimed, the Catholic Church gets busy preparing for a year of big religious celebrations, organized pilgrimages and special initiatives to help deepen faith.
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Africans coming for World Youth Day set to bring hope, change to Western world
Because of costs of travel and distance, Africa may have a smaller representation of youth coming to World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon than other continents. But Catholic bishops and priests stress that the youth from Africa, where Christianity is ...
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Greek church leaders urge ‘learning of lessons’ amid devastating fires
Catholics in Greece have called for lessons to be learned after a wave of fires devastated parts of the country amid highest summer temperatures for half a century.
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‘The church needs our gifts’: Black Catholics at national congress reflect on their calling
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (OSV News) — As people left the July 23 closing Mass for the National Black Catholic Congress, Vernon Taylor of St. Joseph’s Parish in Wilmington, Delaware, said he was moved particularly at the end of Mass when ...
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DeSantis defends Florida’s curriculum on slavery; draws Black, Catholic criticism
(OSV News) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2024, faced criticism after defending a controversial portion of Florida’s 2023 Social Studies curriculum suggesting “slaves developed skills” that could be used for their “personal ...
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Cardinal Gregory: Till memorial should inspire youth to ‘work for a better world’
(OSV News) — Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, the Catholic Church’s first African American cardinal, reacted to President Joe Biden establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Mississippi and Illinois July 25, saying it was important to ...
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At memorial, Charlie Kirk’s wife says she forgives alleged shooter