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null / Credit: UVgreen/Shutterstock Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 19, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Aurora Pomales still remembers the feelings after her grandmother died. The grief was real and disorienting. After all, it was her grandmother who had taught her how to pray, how to love the Mass, and how to be Catholic, even after she…
Father Ralph O’Donnell, bishop-elect of Jefferson City, Missouri. / Diocese of Jefferson City website. Vatican City, Aug 19, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV named Father Ralph O’Donnell of the Archdiocese of Omaha as the new bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri. He will succeed Archbishop Shawn McKnight, who in May was installed as…
Young people gather on the esplanade of Tor Vergata during the Jubilee of Youth. / Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Two weeks ago, 1 million young people returned to their countries after participating in the Jubilee of Youth, an experience that undoubtedly left a profound…
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As a mining company prepares to start extracting copper from a “sacred” mountain in Arizona, protesters gathered at the site called Oak Flat. Among them was a small group of elderly Catholic nuns who supported an Apache group’s effort to ban the mine. The three-day event in July was a tragic case of what has…
The sun was sinking against two snow-capped volcanoes when Eduardo Verástegui looked out over a sea of teenage girls who sat before him in a mammoth gymnasium in Mexico. They wore blue skirts, white blouses, bobby socks, and black saddle shoes—like figures from an old black-and-white drawing pulled from a chapter on purity in the…
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