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PHOTOS: Remembering moments of grace and mercy when the COVID pandemic shut the world down — By: Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis speaks in an empty St. Peter’s Square during a Holy Hour and extraordinary urbi et orbi blessing, March 27, 2020. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the COVID-19 pandemic. Days later, on March…

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Prison is where ‘I learned to be a priest,’ chaplain says after 23 years of service — By: Catholic News Agency

Father Raffaele Grimaldi, inspector general of chaplains in Italian prisons. / Credit: Almudena Martínez-Bordiú/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis decided to open for the first time in history a Holy Door in the Italian prison of Rebibbia during the Jubilee of Hope, a gesture that the prisoners…

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Why I Don’t Celebrate International Women’s Day—And Why You Shouldn’t Either — By: Crisis Magazine

On Saturday, March 8, 2025, my daughter appeared frustrated when she asked me, “What day is it today? You don’t even know. It’s Women’s Day!” Of course, I knew exactly what “day” it was, but I responded, “I don’t celebrate a day instituted by murderous communists.” My answer, though abrupt, was intended to spark a…

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Pope Francis urges world not to forget countries in need of God’s ‘gift of peace’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Black smoke billows over the city after drone strikes in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Sept. 19, 2023, amid Russia’s military invasion on Ukraine. / Credit: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Since being admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14, Pope Francis has…

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