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St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio. / Credit: LO Kin-hei/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 24, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As federal budget cuts halt programs for people in need, Catholic Social Services (CSS) in Columbus, Ohio, is encouraging volunteers to step up and become community heroes. Modeling the good Samaritan, people are being invited…
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Pius Parsch noted that the 11th, 12th, and 13th Sundays after Pentecost form a triad on sacramental grace: baptism, healing, and gratitude for purification. The context of summer, with its harvests, provides the natural analogy. Just as zucchini overflow gardens with comic abundance, so grace superabounds. The cycle of Sundays after Pentecost is like a…
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Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska in St. Peter’s Square, a day before the canonization Mass of St. John Henry Newman, Oct. 12, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA CNA Staff, Aug 23, 2025 / 11:15 am (CNA). Lincoln, Nebraska Bishop James Conley this week said a proposed federal immigrant detention facility in the state must allow…
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The streets of Qaraqosh — also known as Baghdeda — in Iraq are filled with joy as residents celebrating Palm Sunday carry olive branches and palm fronds in a grand procession of nearly 20,000 Christians on April 13, 2025. / Credit: Ismael Adnan/ACI MENA ACI MENA, Aug 23, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). As Iraq’s…
St. Pius X. / Credit: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 23, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church celebrated the feast of St. Pius X on Aug. 21 — an influential pope at the turn of the 20th century whose warnings about the heresy of “modernism” help shine light on…
Pope Leo XIV views a gift from an attendee at the International Catholic Legislators Network meeting at the Vatican, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 23, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Saturday urged Catholic lawmakers to draw inspiration from St. Augustine’s “City of God” as they…
